Obama: We can learn from Cuba on human rights

If you have any doubts that Barack Obama is a hardened leftist--then keep reading.

From the Daily Caller:

Speaking to reporters in Havana Monday, President Barack Obama said that, "hopefully," the United States can learn a thing or two from Cuba’s record on improving basic, human rights.

"Our starting point is that we have two different systems," Obama explained. "What I have said to President Castro, is that we are moving forward and not looking backwards."

"President Castro, I think, has pointed out that it, in his view making sure that everybody is getting a decent education or health care, has basic security in old age, that those things are human rights as well."

"The goal of the human rights dialogue is not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how to govern themselves," the president continued. "Hopefully, we can learn from each other."

Political opponents of the Castro dictatorship are routinely locked up.

War on the West: Bombings in Brussels

There is very bad news this morning out of Belgium.

From the BBC:

A series of attacks has struck Brussels airport and the metro system, causing at least 13 deaths, Belgian media say.

Two blasts tore through the departures area of Zaventem airport shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT).

An hour later, explosions hit Maalbeek metro station, close to the EU institutions. The metro system and airport have both been closed.

The attacks come four days after Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris attacks, was captured in Brussels.

Multiple blasts? At transportation facilities? Seems like another attack by radial Islamic terrorists.

Like it or not, the West is at war.

Commie Castro tells Obama he wants Gitmo back and end of embargo

Communist dictator Raul Castro is not being a gracious host to his fellow leftist Barack Obama. Castro told Obama that he wants the decades old trade embargo between our countries lifted and he demands the return of the Guantanomo Bay Naval Base.

Fortunately Obama doesn't have the power to yield to the thug.

Castro does have the power to lock up dissidents--which he did to 50 of them just prior to Dear Leader's arrival.

Obama and Castro deserve each other.

(Photos) Urban Decay in Chicago: The Union Bag and Paper Building

Chicago's Central Manufacturing District, which opened in 1892, is arguably the world's first planned industrial park. Hundreds of companies called CMD home and the park employed tens of thousands of Chicagoans.

Much of the CMD is crumbling or just vacant lots.

Yesterday I visited and managed to get inside to photograph the onetime Union Bag and Paper Co. Building at 3737 S. Ashland Street, which is in the the process of being demolished.

That's terra cotta surrounding the second floor windows.

Union Bag and Paper Company was founded in 1881 by the Calder Family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1956 it merged with the Camp Manufacturing Company to form the Union Camp Company. In 1999 International Paper purchased Union Camp.

Somewhere during that story line this building was set adrift.

Samuel Scott Joy was the building's architect--it was a built in 1915 and its razing began in its centennial year. After seeing pictures such as this one you begin to understand why Chicago's population is the lowest it's been since 1910.

High taxes and public corruption in Chicago have hastened the rot.

Let's go inside!

Entering abandoned buildings offers many risks--climbing through rubble is one of them.

As far as I can gather other than demolition there are no plants for the this site. South of the Union Bag and Paper stood the Pullman Couch factory, which burned down in a spectacular fire in 2013.

There is plenty of open space in the Central Manufacturing District.

International Paper is still a going concern--in fact it's the world's largest paper and pulp firm.

It appears that someone started to dismantle this fire escape stairwell.

In 2014 Landmarks Illinois listed the Central Manufacturing District as one of its ten most endangered sites.

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The first weekend of spring saw continued violence in Chicago. Two men were murdered--both on the Northwest Side--and at least 25 others were wounded. One of those shot was an off-duty Chicago policeman.

(Video) Anti-Trump protesters go berserk!

By watching this video from Alex Jones you'll see why Donald Trump keeps gaining support.

Who wants to identify with the whack-jobs who oppose his historic run for the presidency?

From Da Tech Guy: Barack Obama is a Democrat ward hack and a complete fraud

President Obama has a lot on his plate: ISIS, the ObamaCare debacle, and a moribund economy top the list. But he found time to drive an independent Democratic state legislator out of office.

From my weekly post at Da Tech Guy: Barack Obama is a Democrat ward hack and a complete fraud.

Deceptive Deseret News headline claims Trump will lose Utah in November

Antelope Island, Utah

The Deseret News, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, must be angry with Donald Trump's recent comments about Mitt Romney, a Mormon. However, Trump says, "Okay, I love the Mormons."

In today's Deseret News, the number two paper in Salt Lake City, readers are confronted with this headline, Poll: Utah would vote for a Democrat for president over Trump.

But if you dig into the details, that is, if you read the story, you'll get a more accurate take:

If Donald Trump becomes the Republican Party's nominee, Utahns would vote for a Democrat for president in November for the first time in more than 50 years, according to a new Deseret News/KSL poll.

"I believe Donald Trump could lose Utah. If you lose Utah as a Republican, there is no hope," said former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a top campaign adviser to the GOP's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney.

The poll found that may well be true. Utah voters said they would reject Trump, the GOP frontrunner, whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the Democratic candidate on the general election ballot.

While Clinton was only slightly ahead of Trump — 38 percent to 36 percent — Sanders, a self-declared Democratic socialist, holds a substantial lead — 48 percent to 37 percent over the billionaire businessman and reality TV star among likely Utah voters.

Not only does the Trump--Clinton fall within the poll's margin of error, Hillary does not even crack forty percent. Trump may challenge this belief--but GOP voters tend to fall in line and go with their party in the general election. As for Sanders, because of Democratic boss chicanery, he will not be on the ballot in November.

In other words, ignore the headline.

Anti-Trump protester arrested for slapping police horse

Will the accused claim that slapping a docile horse is covered by the first amendment?

From the Kansas City Star:

Kansas City police arrested a woman accused of slapping a police horse outside a Donald Trump rally last weekend shortly before officers released pepper spray on a crowd of protesters.

April J. Foster, 29, was arrested about 5 p.m. Friday in the 9200 block of Ward Parkway and charged with abuse of a police service animal. Foster was later released after posting a $500 bond and is scheduled to appear in Municipal Court on May 4.

Police had been searching for the woman who hit the horse.

The horse, named Dan, was hit while officers on horseback attempted to control protesters and keep them out of the street outside a Trump rally March 12 in downtown Kansas City at 13th and Main streets.

Prior to allegedly slapping Dan, the Star reports that the accused first screamed into the face of the horse in an attempt to frighten him.

Only creeps abuse animals.

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Desert douchebags fail to stop Arizona Trump rally

Leftists who have no respect for freedom of speech and the electoral process attempted to block traffic in Fountain Hills, Arizona where Republican front-runner Donald Trump spoke this afternoon.

Blocking traffic is illegal and not protected by the US Constitution. Fortunately for the cause of truth, justice, and the American way--Fountain Hills is in Maricopa County where tough-on crime Joe Arpaio is the sheriff. At least three protesters were arrested.

Some of the jackals chained themselves to cars to slow down their justifiable removal.

These antics not only embolden Trump backers, it in fact attracts even more support for his historic effort to win the presidency. Keep up the good work. See you all on Inauguration Day.

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