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President Obama in a recent NBC interview praised himself for his work on racial justice and combating discrimination as his administration executes the nation’s largest mass release of federal prisoners. But, like always, there’s an underlying hypocrisy in the Progressive agenda.

As part of the movement the U.S. Sentencing Commission lowered maximum sentences for drug offenders and made it retroactive. The Obama administration started releasing the first wave of 6,000 drug convicts who will get out of jail early.

In all, about 50,000 prisoners are eligible for early release and federal authorities claim they’re all “non-violent” offenders whose sentences were ‘too long in’ the first place.

However, the feds went after commercial fisherman Anthony Joseph of New York, for “Fisheries Fraud” because he caught too many fluke, then lied about it. He has been sentenced to seven months in prison, a $603,000 fine and three years of supervised release following incarceration, according to the Department of Justice.

So much for ‘teaching a man to fish,’ when he can jus’ sell drugs to our kids and get a ‘get out of jail free,’ card.

Police have identified the suspect accused of stabbing several people at the University of California, Merced as 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad of Santa Clara. After attacking a construction worker and two students, he rushed down two flights of stairs to the outside and stabbed a school employee sitting on a bench.

He then fled and was shot by campus police. He was carrying flammable petroleum jelly, zip tie handcuffs, night vision goggles, duct tape and a hammer in his backpack while wearing all-black when killed.

“He had like a sweatshirt, and the hoodie was up…and it covered his whole face,” student Blanca Ayala said.

Andrew Velasquez, who lived in the dorms with the attacker, said he didn’t talk much and kept to himself.

“Every time I would try and say something he would just ignore it,” stated Velasquez.

Police say they’re still trying to find a motive for the stabbings though they also claim “there’s nothing to indicate any political or religious motivation.” Investigators added that a manifesto, found on the attackers’ body, indicates he was angry over being kicked out of study group.

His manifesto included a “detailed list” of targets and plans to tie students to desks in an effort to lure police into the room. From there, the computer science and engineering student wanted to take the officer’s gun and shoot people.

The manifesto indicated he “intended to kill a lot of people.” Investigators had said night vision goggles, duct tape and zip tie had been found in his backpack. The four-page document also included several references to Allah.

Meanwhile, Chancellor Dorothy Leland said, “At this point, it would be irresponsible to draw such conclusions based solely on the ethnicity of the suspect.”

“At this point in time, the preliminary evidence suggests that freshman computer science and engineering student…” she added, “appears to have been motivated by personal animosities, not a political agenda.”

The attack drew immediate praise from a Twitter account associated with ISIS/ISIL once his name was divulged by campus authorities. The tweet in Arabic, read: “May Allah accept him.”

As a kid, my old man smacked me in the back of the head so hard I had a headache for the rest of the day. He did this all because I gave our paper boy the finger after he threw a rolled-up paper, hitting me in the mouth.

Dad later told me that expected better from me, despite the fact that we both knew the paper boy had done it on purpose. It’s a lesson I didn’t soon forget.

But now ‘flying the bird’ is being encouraged by the so-called anti-immigration group, ‘Deport Racism,’ who oppose Donald Trump. In their latest video, a young boy and girl are seen shouting words like “motherfuckers,” “fuck,” and “dick,” as well as other Spanish profanities.

At one point, one young boy raises a middle finger to the camera while he holds a sign reading, “Deport this.” While the kids obviously think being allowed to do this sort of stuff on camera is fun, the adults ought to be ashamed for misusing a child in such a way.

Unfortunately, they’re not.

And don’t try telling claiming, “But you don’t understand, it’s a cultural thing…” There are Latino and Hispanic parents all across the U.S., who, if they caught their son or daughter doing this, would get the ass-whooping of a lifetime.

In the end, it’s a societal thing and America is falling from the inside out because of such rot.

A few college campus anti-rape activists are complaining in the online publication, about how hard it is for them to get a guy to have sex with them. Worst still is that they claim that it’s all the guys’ fault.

First, there’s UC-Berkeley’s Meghan Warner, who serves as the director of the university’s sexual-assault commission and is part of a federal complaint against the school for its mishandling of assault cases. She thinks it’s strange that guys who find out what she does immediately insist they’d never do anything like that.

“Then there were those who were a little too eager to make it known that they would never, ever assault a woman. Their first response is ‘I’m not one of those guys, I would never do that,’” she said. “I mean, what, should I be carrying gold stars now?”

From the sound of it, Warner can’t even get a participation trophy, let alone gold stars.

And then there’s Chrissy Keenan from UCLA, whose pissed when a guy suddenly decides he doesn’t want to give consent after he finds out what she does. In fact he tells a cute little story about a recent rendezvous:

“One time, I agreed to meet with this guy at 8 or 9 at night. Before we met, I said to him, ‘This is the work I do, I know the chief of police…so, don’t try and get creepy; I know all my rights.’ And five minutes later, he was like, ‘Actually, I’m really not OK with how you just assume I’m a bad guy. And I get very bad vibes from that, so we shouldn’t hang out anymore.’”

“I was in a rage. He was a total fuckboy about consent,” she said.

Finally, there’s Sofie Karasek, a recent UC Berkeley graduate and co-founder of ‘End Rape’ on Campus. She’s also involved with the UC Berkeley lawsuit and has a large part in the campus rape-culture documentary ‘The Hunting Ground.’

“Honestly, even if they’re supportive, even if they say all the right things, and really want to discuss my job, it makes me feel weird about hooking up with them,” she said. “It’s like, ‘Oh, we were just talking about rape, and now we’re going to hook up.’ It’s just weird.”

Men are often accused of “thinking with their dicks,” but in these case’s those so-called dick’s were smarter than the women.

The failure to ban assault weapons in California hasn’t slowed down Progressives in their wish to destroy the 2nd Amendment.

In new legislation called the “Safety for All Act of 2016″ they plan to ban the possession of magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds. It also mandates that every gun owner in the state get a “firearms purchaser certificate” in order to buy ammunition, which will not only cost up to $50.00 and take two months to get.

And a magazine ban and “firearms purchaser certificate” is only the beginning.

It will require that all ammunition purchases be reported electronically at the moment of purchase to the State, who will record it in a database which will be available to law enforcement. This will likely quadruple the handling time associated with the purchase of ammunition, causing prices to skyrocket.

The new law also forces all dealers to get an “ammunition vendors license” in order to sell ammunition. It will also force all employees of any licensed vendor to get a State issued “Certificate of Eligibility” in order to work with ammunition, as well as ban the private transfer of ammunition as well as the private importation of ammunition.

Finally, there’s also the fact that should the “Safety for All Act of 2016″ be passed, and progressives misuse the 14th Amendment, all state legislators need to do to make it federal law is take it to the Supreme Court. Then we can kiss the U.S. Constitution good-bye.

It seems like more and more children’s sports awards are nothing more than participation ribbons, so  kids self-esteem doesn’t get hurt when they lose. Despite that trend, what one California school system is doing in the classroom is still a shock to many.

The Cotati-Rohnert Park School District in Sonoma County has changed its grading scale, basically making it hard for a student to get a failing grade. For example, to get an F, a student has to score below 20 percent.

Part of the new system is a blanket policy that students get a grade of 50 percent even if they don’t hand in any homework or take a test. This creates a situation where a student who skips a test — a kid who doesn’t even try — can score better overall than a student who takes it and does poorly.

School administrators say the new system reflects a national movement that encourage students to try, but doesn’t making them feel bad when they get bad grades. The new system’s called the equal interval scale.

When effort’s rewarded and not achievement – everybody loses.

Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen.
Focus on what you do want to happen.
Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story.
If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, and you pay close attention, you’ll often find that you’re right.

Since 2013 and most recently as July 2015, President Obama has repeatedly vowed that there would be no “boots on the ground” in Syria. Now however he’s directing the Pentagon to send Special Forces into Syria to advise the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS, claiming they are their as advisors.

Remarks before meeting with Baltic State leaders, August 30, 2013

“In no event are we considering any kind of military action that would involve boots on the ground, that would involve a long-term campaign. But we are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow act that would help make sure that not only Syria, but others around the world, understand that the international community cares about maintaining this chemical weapons ban and norm. So again, I repeat, we’re not considering any open-ended commitment. We’re not considering any boots-on-the-ground approach.”

Remarks in the Rose Garden, August 31, 2013

“After careful deliberation, I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets. This would not be an open-ended intervention. We would not put boots on the ground. Instead, our action would be designed to be limited in duration and scope.”

Statement before meeting with congressional leaders, September 3, 2013

“So the key point that I want to emphasize to the American people: The military plan that has been developed by our Joint Chiefs — and that I believe is appropriate — is proportional. It is limited. It does not involve boots on the ground. This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan.”

News conference in Stockholm, Sweden, September. 4, 2013

“I think America recognizes that, as difficult as it is to take any military action — even one as limited as we’re talking about, even one without boots on the ground — that’s a sober decision.”

News conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, September. 6, 2013

“The question for the American people is, is that responsibility that we’ll be willing to bear? And I believe that when you have a limited, proportional strike like this — not Iraq, not putting boots on the ground; not some long, drawn-out affair; not without any risks, but with manageable risks — that we should be willing to bear that responsibility.”

Weekly radio address, September. 7, 2013

“What we’re not talking about is an open-ended intervention. This would not be another Iraq or Afghanistan. There would be no American boots on the ground. Any action we take would be limited, both in time and scope, designed to deter the Syrian Government from gassing its own people again and degrade its ability to do so.”

Interview with the PBS Newshour, September 9, 2013

“Tomorrow I’ll speak to the American people. I’ll explain this is not Iraq; this is not Afghanistan; this is not even Libya. We’re not talking about — not boots on the ground. We’re not talking about sustained airstrikes. We’re talking about a very specific set of strikes to degrade his chemical weapons capabilities in terms of delivery.”

Interview with CBS Evening News, September 9, 2013

“What I’m going to try to propose is that we have a very specific objective, a very narrow military option, and one that will not lead into some large-scale invasion of Syria or involvement or boots on the ground; nothing like that. This isn’t like Iraq. It’s not like Afghanistan. It’s not even like Libya. Then hopefully people will recognize why I think this is so important.”

Address to the Nation, September 10, 2013

“Many of you have asked, won’t this put us on a slippery slope to another war? One man wrote to me that we are ‘still recovering from our involvement in Iraq.’ A veteran put it more bluntly: ‘This nation is sick and tired of war.’ My answer is simple: I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan. I will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like Libya or Kosovo. This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective: deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad’s capabilities.”

Interview on Bloomberg View, February 27, 2014

“We are doing everything we can to see how we can do that and how we can resource it. But I’ve looked at a whole lot of game plans, a whole lot of war plans, a whole bunch of scenarios, and nobody has been able to persuade me that us taking large-scale military action even absent boots on the ground, would actually solve the problem.”

News conference in Newport, Wales, September 5, 2014

“With respect to the situation on the ground in Syria, we will not be placing U.S. ground troops to try to control the areas that are part of the conflict inside of Syria. I don’t think that’s necessary for us to accomplish our goal. We are going to have to find effective partners on the ground to push back against ISIL.”

Interview with Meet the Press, September 7, 2014

“(You) cannot, over the long term or even the medium term, deal with this problem by having the United States serially occupy various countries all around the Middle East. We don’t have the resources. It puts enormous strains on our military. And at some point, we leave. And then things blow up again. So we’ve got to have a more sustainable strategy, which means the boots on the ground have to be Iraqi. And and in Syria, the boots on the ground have to be Syrian. … I will reserve the right to always protect the American people and go after folks who are trying to hurt us wherever they are. But in terms of controlling territory, we’re going to have to develop a moderate Sunni opposition that can control territory and that we can work with. The notion that the United States should be putting boots on the ground, I think would be a profound mistake. And I want to be very clear and very explicit about that.”

Address to the Nation on Syria, September 10, 2014

“I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground.”

News conference in Brisbane, Australia, November 16, 2014

“Yes, there are always circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy U.S. ground troops. If we discovered that ISIL had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes, you can anticipate that not only would Chairman Dempsey recommend me sending U.S. ground troops to get that weapon out of their hands, but I would order it. So the question just ends up being, what are those circumstances? I’m not going speculate on those. Right now we’re moving forward in conjunction with outstanding allies like Australia in training Iraqi security forces to do their job on the ground.”

Remarks at the White House, February 11, 2015

“The resolution we’ve submitted today does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Iraq or Syria. It is not the authorization of another ground war, like Afghanistan or Iraq. … As I’ve said before, I’m convinced that the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the Middle East. That’s not in our national security interest, and it’s not necessary for us to defeat ISIL. Local forces on the ground who know their countries best are best positioned to take the ground fight to ISIL, and that’s what they’re doing.”

Remarks at the Pentagon, July 6, 2015

“There are no current plans to do so. That’s not something that we currently discussed. I’ve always said that I’m going to do what’s necessary to protect the homeland. One of the principles that we all agree on, though, and I pressed folks pretty hard because in these conversations with my military advisers I want to make sure I’m getting blunt and unadulterated, uncensored advice. But in every one of the conversations that we’ve had, the strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against ISIL, we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress. It is not enough for us to simply send in American troops to temporarily set back organizations like ISIL, but to then, as soon as we leave, see that void filled once again with extremists.”

As I’ve noted before — every time Obama says he isn’t or is going to do something, know that it’s a lie.

This is a good lesson for ‘mug-wumps,’ or rather ‘Moderates,’ sitting on the fence. Most Moderates (and Independents, too) pick and chose what they like from wherever they find it and that makes their actions another form of Progressivism.

If something seems good to them, they adapt it to their belief system, despite where it might lead too. They are the ones who say “I support the 2nd Amendment,” but in the same breath feel a 30-round banana clip should be regulated or outlawed.

One cannot simple cherry pick what they like or dislike about a particular system – the bad goes with the good. I know what I know.

Edinson Volquez pitched in Game One of the World Series, unaware his father had passed away hours earlier from heart failure in the Dominican Republic. It was only after he left the mound, did he learn the news.

Personally, I’d want to know right away. Death notifications are an important responsibility and all too often I’ve heard and seen them screwed up by some unthinking, uncaring schmuck determined to get the job done and over with and not treat it with honor and as a sacred duty.

In Volquez’s case, his father’s passing was withheld from him on the say so of his wife, which for many somehow makes the decision okay. I disagree whole-heartedly and I said so on a national news site, posting: “…A child does need to know when a parent has passes away. (There are) bigger things in the Universe than winning a baseball game.”

One Florida man was so incensed he fired back, “Tom Darby must have taken his stupid pills this morning.”

My response was less than artful, “Jus’ because I disagree with how it was handled? Obviously, you’re a closet Progressive since you went straight to insults.”

Many of the same people who disagreed with me are also the same people who are calling for the heads of those who made a mess of Benghazi, leaving four Americans dead. Their main cry has been that ‘we are owed the truth.’

Those sentiments are all fine and dandy, until a World Series game is on the line. Evidently, the truth isn’t as important as winning an effing game.

The truth is relevant in all situations – whether a matter of national security or the personal life of a World Series pitcher. Fathers, mothers, parents, and family also matter – and in the end are far more important in our everyday lives.

The Bible reveals the words ‘father,’ ‘mother,’ ‘family’ and ‘parent’ are mentioned 100 times, but ‘Baseball,’ appears not once. I’ve concluded that we are praying to different ‘gods.’

The Kansas City Royals are this years World Series Champions. I know what I know.

Democratic Congressman Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois claims Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is behind a surge of Latino youth voter’s registering: “Donald Trump is spurring youth voter mobilization like I’ve never seen before. Nationally we know that 93-percent of Latinos under the age of 18 are United States citizens.”

“Every thirty seconds a Latino citizen turns 18. That is about a million a year for the next decade or so,” he added. “If they are half as motivated as the young people I’m talking to in Chicago, Donald Trump could have a tremendous impact on the youth vote in the coming election.”

Trump is viewed unfavorably by 72 percent of Hispanics, with six in 10 having a very unfavorable opinion of him, a recent AP-GfK poll finds. Only 11 percent view him favorably.

Meanwhile, Gutiérrez is complaining about a bunch of 18-year-olds who’ll probably register as Democrats and who will more than likely vote for Bernie Sanders. I can’t find the downside in Gutiérrez’s argument when it comes winning a Progressive presidential election.

That’s because there isn’t one – proving Gutiérrez is either grandstanding or a complete moron. I’ll let you decide – but I’m betting on ‘complete moron.’