In a widely reported comment made in a meeting with congressional leaders, President Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as "sh*thole countries."
This morning the president denied making the remark.
As for CNN, in this not-safe-for-work video, Mark Dice shows how the anti-Trump network went bonkers over "sh*thole," and they didn't bleep it out.
Again...and again....and again.
Friday, January 12, 2018
Thursday, January 11, 2018
How capitalism works: Man purchases Diana Ross' old Detroit home for $1800, fixes it up, offering it for $132K
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| Blogger at the Motown Museum |
From the Detroit Free Press:
As it turns out, an investor who purchased the dilapidated childhood home of Motown artist Diana Ross for a song from the city's redevelopment organization is now seeking to sell it — after gutting and updating it — for $132,500.The house, an American Foursquare, is in the North End neighborhood, just south of Highland Park. As with most Detroit neighborhoods, it's a rough one.
"It's generating a lot of interest," real estate broker Darin McLeskey said Wednesday. "But, there's also a lot of nosey people overall who just want to get inside of a famous person's house, too."
He said his phone has been ringing off the hook.
The investor, records show, paid only $1,800 for the house in May.
Mark Dice: CNN Makes History
CNN acted like a real news network yesterday for a while, Mark Dice, tells us as it covers the tragic mudslides in California.
But then it goes back to its bread-and-butter, bizarre anti-Donald Trump stories, in this case, the fake news network steals a page from MSNBC by having a mental health "professional" explain his diagnosis of the president without even meeting him, let alone examining him.
This time the irresponsible "expert" is John Gartner, a psychologist.
But then it goes back to its bread-and-butter, bizarre anti-Donald Trump stories, in this case, the fake news network steals a page from MSNBC by having a mental health "professional" explain his diagnosis of the president without even meeting him, let alone examining him.
This time the irresponsible "expert" is John Gartner, a psychologist.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Leftist Detroit school board member wants to rename Benjamin Carson High School
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| Abandoned DPS school |
The Detroit native and retired neurosurgeon, and current Housing and Urban Development secretary for President Trump, is a product of Detroit Public Schools. While Ben Carson's tenure at HUD is getting poor reviews so far from the left and the right, that's not why Lemmons wants Carson's name stripped from the high school. It's because Carson is a conservative.
That's how the left rolls.
From the Detroit News:
“[Carson] is a so-called conservative Republican. A strict constructionist is one that wants to take the Constitution literally. If one takes that as a stance, it would allow the enslavement of those of African descent. When you align yourself with Trump that is a direct affront to the city of Detroit and the students of Detroit,” Lemmons said.Lemmons is a sour idiot. I have a quick education for him. Slavery of course existed in the United States for nearly 100 years, it is not directly mentioned in the Constitution until the 13th Amendment, which abolished the abhorrent practice. And this goof is one of the people in charge of educating Detroit's children.
Mark Dice: Liberals New Plan to Stop Trump
In this Mark Dice video, the patriot rightfully skewers the psychiatrists, including wild-eyed Dr. Bandy Lee of Yale University, who are diagnosing President Donald Trump without examining him or even reviewing his medical records, which is a violation of American Psychiatric Association guidelines.
By the way, Manny Alvarez of Fox News has this to say about such malpractice.
Leave it to Alan Dershowitz, again, to defend Trump. The liberal points out that the Soviet Union and South Africa to lock up regime opponents with similar psychiatric judgements.
By the way, Manny Alvarez of Fox News has this to say about such malpractice.
Not only is it unethical to render a professional medical opinion based on casual observation, it undermines the entire diagnostic process and further stigmatizes mental illness.Can you imagine the uproar from the mainstream media if a shrink had made the irresponsible diagnosis on Barack Obama?
Leave it to Alan Dershowitz, again, to defend Trump. The liberal points out that the Soviet Union and South Africa to lock up regime opponents with similar psychiatric judgements.
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
Top Ten Most Violent Neighborhoods in Chicago #10
My good friend and fellow patriot Victor J. Maggio released the first installment of his series, the Top Ten Most Violent Neighborhoods in Chicago.
Number Ten is a bit of a surprise to me as I though Back of the Yards, as the murders, often committed with high-power weapons, are particularly brutal in this South Side neighborhood, which is coincidentally where leftist agitator Saul Alinksy got his start.
Maggio has some great work here as delves into the history of BOTY while reporting on its unhappy present.
Two springs ago I visited Back of the Yards.
Related post:
(Photos) The abandoned homes of Chicago's violent Back of the Yards neighborhood
Number Ten is a bit of a surprise to me as I though Back of the Yards, as the murders, often committed with high-power weapons, are particularly brutal in this South Side neighborhood, which is coincidentally where leftist agitator Saul Alinksy got his start.
Maggio has some great work here as delves into the history of BOTY while reporting on its unhappy present.
Two springs ago I visited Back of the Yards.
Related post:
(Photos) The abandoned homes of Chicago's violent Back of the Yards neighborhood
Ex-Never Trumper Rich Lowry: I was wrong, POTUS has had an A+ agenda
Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, the magazine that in 2016 dedicated a whole issue explaining why conservatives should oppose Donald Trump, praises his presidency, particularly on stances such as energy, deregulation, and judicial philosophy while on--wait for it--MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Lowry says Trump has "an A+ agenda."
Lowry says Trump has "an A+ agenda."
Mark Dice: Trump is driving Democrats CRAZY! - Literally
Mark Dice discusses the accusations from leftists, including a member of Congress, that President Trump is not mentally fit to serve in office. But it could be projection, Dice argues, meaning that those finger-pointers are coping with some of their own mental issues.
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While over at The Federalist Mollie Hemingway is calling such machinations over Trump's demeanor for what it is: a coup attempt led by people who still cannot cope with the reality that Trump was elected president.
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While over at The Federalist Mollie Hemingway is calling such machinations over Trump's demeanor for what it is: a coup attempt led by people who still cannot cope with the reality that Trump was elected president.
Monday, January 08, 2018
The abandoned City United Methodist Church of Gary, Indiana
If you are considering the intriguing yet dangerous hobby of urban exploration, you may want to start with Gary, Indiana, particularly if you live in the Chicago area, as it lies on the eastern edge of the metropolitan region.
And if you are traveling on Interstate 80, 90, or 94 in Northwest Indiana then Gary is within reach.
Just a half mile from the Broadway exit on the Indiana Toll Road--that is, Interstate 90--is the long-abandoned City Methodist Church. According to Wikipedia, it was once the largest Methodist house of worship in the Midwest--its seating capacity was 1,000--as it was for the adjacent Seaman Hall, which was named for the congregation's founder, Dr. William Grant Seaman.
It opened in 1926, its address is 575 Washington Street.
The Gothic Revival building doesn't look like a Methodist church--and its many detractors decried the use of the oak paneling of the chancel, altar, and the fellowship hall at Seaman Hall, as well as the stained glass windows, which was a reminder of "popery," that is Catholicism, according to the Sometimes Interesting blog. The massive church organ was donated by Elbert H. Gary, the city's namesake and one of the founders of US Steel, which still operates a large mill in Gary.
That's the Elbert H. Gary statue outside of Gary's City Hall.
US Steel put up nearly half of the $800,000 for the construction of the church, which was a staggering amount in the 1920s.
That's the corner of Seaman Hall.
And that's the view facing where the altar once stood.
Wikipedia shows the roof intact in a 2009 photograph.
Ironically Methodists, both in England where the faith was founded and in America where it flourished, had a reputation for preaching outdoors. Methodism has come full circle in Gary in a way. Wikipedia says an occasional goth wedding is held at City Methodist
The stained glass windows shown here are too high for scrappers to pillage.
But the stained glass windows here were accessible.
Later the church changed its name to City United Methodist.
Besides the church, and the aforementioned theater, the City Methodist complex included offices, a gymnasium, a cafeteria, and a rooftop garden that was never completed. The planned bowling alley never was built.
There's the theater.
Seaman brought plays and lecturers to the theater, he screened travel films, and he held interfaith events. While ecumenical dialogue is the norm in the 21st century it wasn't in the 1920s, even among Protestants.
By 1929 parishioners had enough of Dr. Seaman, who was dispatched to Ohio. The expense of building the church and the hall--as well as maintaining it was too much to bear. As was apparently Seaman's ego and the belief, which seems credible nearly a century later, that the reverend was building a temple to himself.
There were graffiti taggers in the room adjacent to the upper balcony of the theater, so I didn't go there. They looked like nice enough fellows but I didn't want to chance it with them.
That's what's left of the gym. which is two stories up.
While the roof garden was never completed...
Nature always...
Wins in the end.
Way off in the distance is the Gary Water Tower.
Another look at Seaman Hall.
The Great Depression was hard on Gary and City United Methodist Church. But the post-World War II economic boom and the religious revival of the baby boomer era brought good times to the church.
Seaman Hall was rented out to Indiana University around this time.
White flight in the 1960s and the downturn in the domestic steel industry devastated Gary and it has yet to recover. And there are no signs a recovery is about to begin.
A program from 1967 includes photographs of the ministers and parishioners. The only blacks shown are the two custodians and a housekeeper.
Membership in the church plummeted as Gary's fortunes fell. The church was always an expensive facility to maintain even during prosperous times and it closed down in 1975. Indiana University continued to hold classes in Seaman Hall for a while.
Dr. Seaman died in an automobile accident in 1944. His ashes were buried in the sanctuary of the church, and Sometimes Interesting says that a member of the last congregation claims the ashes are probably still there.
The complex, way back when, was known by its detractors as "Seaman's Folly."
Is it?
Once again, according to Sometimes Interesting, in 2005 Gary's planning director, David Wright, envisioned an open space that would include a ruins garden, built among surviving parts of the church. To me it would have been reminiscent of how the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral incorporated the remnants of the old church that had been destroyed during the Battle of Britain.
I believe that can still happen, assuming what is left is structurally sound and Northwest Indiana's legendary snowy winters don't do more damage to what remains a beautiful, yet battered, building.
And if you are traveling on Interstate 80, 90, or 94 in Northwest Indiana then Gary is within reach.
Just a half mile from the Broadway exit on the Indiana Toll Road--that is, Interstate 90--is the long-abandoned City Methodist Church. According to Wikipedia, it was once the largest Methodist house of worship in the Midwest--its seating capacity was 1,000--as it was for the adjacent Seaman Hall, which was named for the congregation's founder, Dr. William Grant Seaman.
It opened in 1926, its address is 575 Washington Street.
The Gothic Revival building doesn't look like a Methodist church--and its many detractors decried the use of the oak paneling of the chancel, altar, and the fellowship hall at Seaman Hall, as well as the stained glass windows, which was a reminder of "popery," that is Catholicism, according to the Sometimes Interesting blog. The massive church organ was donated by Elbert H. Gary, the city's namesake and one of the founders of US Steel, which still operates a large mill in Gary.
That's the Elbert H. Gary statue outside of Gary's City Hall.
US Steel put up nearly half of the $800,000 for the construction of the church, which was a staggering amount in the 1920s.
That's the corner of Seaman Hall.
And that's the view facing where the altar once stood.
Wikipedia shows the roof intact in a 2009 photograph.
Ironically Methodists, both in England where the faith was founded and in America where it flourished, had a reputation for preaching outdoors. Methodism has come full circle in Gary in a way. Wikipedia says an occasional goth wedding is held at City Methodist
The stained glass windows shown here are too high for scrappers to pillage.
But the stained glass windows here were accessible.
Later the church changed its name to City United Methodist.
Besides the church, and the aforementioned theater, the City Methodist complex included offices, a gymnasium, a cafeteria, and a rooftop garden that was never completed. The planned bowling alley never was built.
There's the theater.
Seaman brought plays and lecturers to the theater, he screened travel films, and he held interfaith events. While ecumenical dialogue is the norm in the 21st century it wasn't in the 1920s, even among Protestants.
By 1929 parishioners had enough of Dr. Seaman, who was dispatched to Ohio. The expense of building the church and the hall--as well as maintaining it was too much to bear. As was apparently Seaman's ego and the belief, which seems credible nearly a century later, that the reverend was building a temple to himself.
There were graffiti taggers in the room adjacent to the upper balcony of the theater, so I didn't go there. They looked like nice enough fellows but I didn't want to chance it with them.
That's what's left of the gym. which is two stories up.
While the roof garden was never completed...
Nature always...
Wins in the end.
Way off in the distance is the Gary Water Tower.
The Great Depression was hard on Gary and City United Methodist Church. But the post-World War II economic boom and the religious revival of the baby boomer era brought good times to the church.
Seaman Hall was rented out to Indiana University around this time.
A program from 1967 includes photographs of the ministers and parishioners. The only blacks shown are the two custodians and a housekeeper.
Membership in the church plummeted as Gary's fortunes fell. The church was always an expensive facility to maintain even during prosperous times and it closed down in 1975. Indiana University continued to hold classes in Seaman Hall for a while.
Dr. Seaman died in an automobile accident in 1944. His ashes were buried in the sanctuary of the church, and Sometimes Interesting says that a member of the last congregation claims the ashes are probably still there.
The complex, way back when, was known by its detractors as "Seaman's Folly."
Is it?
Once again, according to Sometimes Interesting, in 2005 Gary's planning director, David Wright, envisioned an open space that would include a ruins garden, built among surviving parts of the church. To me it would have been reminiscent of how the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral incorporated the remnants of the old church that had been destroyed during the Battle of Britain.
I believe that can still happen, assuming what is left is structurally sound and Northwest Indiana's legendary snowy winters don't do more damage to what remains a beautiful, yet battered, building.
Chiraq: 4 dead and at least 16 wounded over weekend
For the first full weekend of 2018 there were four murders in Chicago and at least 18 others were wounded. Two of the shooting deaths happened in Austin. Also on the West Side a man was fatally shot in East Garfield Park. The other murder took place on the South Side in Englewood.
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