Rare opportunity to purchase American made items.

Something I have noticed but didn't think much of is the items being made to promote POTUS candidates are being made in America.

 I haven't visited each candidate's store (and not every candidate has a POTUS site), but I do know that the official Donald Trump hat is made in America as well as Hillary Clinton's items. Marco Rubio has a "Wake up, America!" cup that is the most neutral item in self-promotion amongst all the items I've seen in any store. Bernie Sanders lets potential buyers know that his own merchandise is specifically union-made.

Hillary + 6 coin tosses

Hillary Clinton won six coin tosses to win Iowa's primary. In order to win every coin toss in six tries the chances are one in 64, or 1.56%.

In Chicago the dead vote, so the (D)'s know how to rig the voting process in order to gain their W.

With Bernie Sanders he's promising free college education. Now if that includes graduate school on the master's level then my vote goes to ... Ted Cruz.

Hollywood Reporter's #OscarsSoWhite Edition

Just yesterday I was banned from The Hollywood Reporter.

I was commenting on one of Scott Feinberg's articles about the recent diversity movement happening within AMPAS, and movies & tv in general. It turns out, when responding to another person, if you write "It's Scott. This is Scott we're talking here. Scott," it will issue a ban from the site. Now, I'm a little disappointed because I wanted to comment on other articles that had headlines that were straight out ridiculous in regards to #OscarsSoWhite.

#OscarsSoWhite: Why Black Films Have to Be About MLK and White Movies Can Be About a Mop Inventor (the picture is offensive)

#OscarsSoWhite: Academy Chiefs Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Drama That Led to Historic Change (Exclusive) with tagline "We Could Not Be Silent." Can you feel how serious this issue is?

Working in Hollywood When You're Not White: Three Players Reveal All with the tagline "Is Hollywood Racist? America is Racist."

Oscars' Diversity Dilemma: A Mathematical Solution to Parity in Voting played the "old, white male" voting demographic as one major reason why the nominations tend to be white. I predicted it here.

There's much to be said about these articles.

I don't know if my comment, mentioned above, was the reason I was banned since I checked my comment history, and discovered that that was the only one on HR that was removed. Whatever Scott read into my comment apparently he took it as an insult. I assume that he thought I was implying he's racist (another poster said his lack of coverage of the supposed lack of diversity in Hollywood was concerning, to which he listed links to his articles talking about it). If so, he's wrong.

I also find it amusing because it shows that movie journalists, if white, take issue of themselves being accused of racism but not the industry that creates their income. They're the non-racists ones. The producers and the suits? Racists. They  think of themselves as the white knights, the light house watching over the passing ships that sheds light into the distance to guide them. That's my guess into the minds of people like Scott Feinberg.

#SAGWinnersSoBlack

No lie.

I'm not sure when votes were cast for the SAG awards (nominations were announced late last year), but it's awfully strange that after the uproar of the 2016 Oscar votes for the acting lineup being "too white," complaining that institutional racism and lack of diversity was a serious issue, that this happened.

Every category a black actor was nominated for a singular performance was won by a black actor. This was present in five categories:

1. Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Idris Elba)

2. Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series (Uzo Aduba)

3. Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (Viola Davis)
4. Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (Idris Elba)
5. Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (Queen Latifah)

I would guess this was a makeup for the all-white winner lineup come Oscar night. Save for Best Actor, Actress and Supporting Actress, only Best Supporting Actor at the SAG Awards had a black actor nominated.

The only category that did win with an almost all black cast was Straight Outta Compton and Beast of No Nation for Outstanding Cast Performance in a Motion Picture. That win went to Spotlight.

#OscarsSoWhite was mostly targeted for the lack of dark skin pigment in the acting categories, so it makes sense to have the actors who aren't white sweep in the categories voted by their fellow peers if we go by modern liberal logic. The apologizing has begun and looking at the winners I can't help but think "You probably won because of the uproar." Without the uproar I bet it would not have been a sweep.

Similar to the administration at Yale and Mizzou, the complaints were heard. The demands were set. The demands were met. The children are getting what they want. And the children feel smug and (somewhat) satisfied. Academia and entertainment - two industries that are dominated by modern liberals, showing how "justice" is done.

And to take advantage of the "mostly black" theme, let's look at the 2016 NBA All-Star roster. It's not "mostly black," it's all black if we don't count old white guy Gregg Popovich. Where's the uproar from the white players? Last year's roster was "diverse," both in race and in nationality.

I would guess if next years All-Star roster is all black maybe April Reign, the woman who started #OscarsSoWhite, would be filled with indignation and start a new hashtag -- #NBAAll-StarSoBlack. It would be the second year in a row if such a thing were to happen, so I hope Reign is paying attention.

American Thinker: Hijacked or Editors actively Humping Trump

As I write this, on February 1, 2016, about every article published on this date questioning Donald Trump's merit and winning chances as the GOP nominee has been met with a "HTTP 404" message. 404 is basically an unknown link destination. Every article either neutral to Trump or in favor can be reached. I have the evidence.

Ed Lasky's "Trump screws everyone but himself."

And it goes on with other like-minded articles printed on February 1st.

All of these are met with the same 404 message.

Douglas Schwartz' "Trump Listens" is reachable. Bruce Walker's article is fine. Peggy Ryan, who has written mostly about supporting Trump (whose first AT article was about amnesty back in November 2014), "Trump or Cruz: Who Is the winning Quarterback?" works. Marie M. Kane's article entitled "Trump and the American Identity" is a valid link.

Other articles criticizing Hillary or any international affair is also a 404 victim. (Foreign policy not being Trump's forte.)

Meet Mike, the science nerd atheist.

Mike the atheist writes in his gravatar bio -

Hello,

I am an atheist because of reason and personal experience. I am a father of THREE lovely living kids and two dead embryos, married to a lovely Christian Catholic devoted woman. Yes, black and white can coexist as long as there is respect and love, which is something abstracted from any belief or religion.

I do not claim absolute truth and not 100% sure that a God does not exist somewhere out there. The scientific method is what I use to connect to reality. If there is something I don't understand, then it is because i don't understand, not because god exists.

In case you haven't noticed, I am a native Arab, and English is my third language (yes there is second language).

I like reading the Bible and the Quran and the critics of both of them. I also love watching documentaries especially astronomy, cosmology, Quantum Physics, and new discoveries in science in general, and Physics in particular.

I stumbled over Mike when he wrote this comment on another site.

"Why won’t this God manifest himself to me and the other billions of naked apes like me and reach people in very very very very questionable ways that nobody can check upon because they are personal?"

Respect and love, eh? Mike seems like a typical atheist douchebag. Proud that he's "the father" of "two dead embryos," and refers to humans as apes. Now if that's actually him pictured then he's just a man who gives off the impression that he's educated let alone reasonable.

His bio and his post, as well as his as site, broadcasts that he thinks (too) highly of himself. It's mightily ironic that his site's banner is of starving kids in Africa and the Middle East, telling us he's really torn about such a demographic and their plight given, if we're being generous, humans are basically advanced embryos. All of a sudden that if you can "see" the child that child is a human and therefore important (remember how he spoke of his three children versus his two dead embryos).

"I , too, am a Jew."

Says Obama when reflecting on anti-Semitism and Holocaust Day. He's correct, he's a Jew, sorta, through his mother but he isn't practicing. In fact, I highly doubt he has passed on anything Jewish to his daughters let alone discussed with Michelle Obama on whether or not to raise their children in the faith.

This claiming that you're a Jew is like claiming you're a Catholic when you never went to church let alone been baptized, but even nominal Catholics or fallen away Catholics know a little more knowledge about their faith than secular Jews who aren't practicing. Catholics who fall into the aforementioned categories are "Catholics" if they have been baptized. The identity can be ingrained if one attends Catholic school, though dwindling by the numbers as an institution and in enrollment, which can offer a unique upbringing, especially if the faith is somewhat practiced by the parents and if the curriculum isn't a Mickey Mouse curriculum.

Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew, compared to Bernie Sanders - a non-religious Jew and non-practicing - are two worlds apart not only in politics but also in faith and how faith influences their personal and public choices. Despite these things, Sanders can claim the Jewish card more than Obama.

I see Obama stating that he is a Jew in order to foster feelings that "he gets it" is poor taste. It would have more credibility if he were practicing. If we want to get tchnical he's "half Jewish." A (half) black Jew. Now that's an identity card that Obama is trying to take advantage of. I'll admit he has more mileage playing the black card than the Jewish card because any honest brain will just shake their heads at his "I, too, am a Jew." That's like saying one's a Catholic if one of their parent is a non-practicing Catholic and one who is a Lutheran. "Being a Jew" isn't hereditary; it isn't a race per se.

"We're all Jews," Obama solemnly states to commemorate Holocaust Day is stretching it. I'm not Jewish, my parents aren't and I don't identify as one. 

What Obama says isn't false, but it doesn't gain him any credence due to him never identifying as a Jew, but as a Christian (though Jewish is a Christina faith). What he's doing is exactly what he did when he said, "If I a had son he'd look like Trayvon." No. If Obama had a son he wouldn't look like Trayvon at all unless he had sex with Trayvon's mom. What he's doing is exactly the same thing he did when addressing the nation about gun control with the family members of the slain standing behind him, all while shedding a few tears. He's using his black skin, his skill to manipulate emotions in order to swing the vote his way and his mother's non-existence Jewish practices for his own benefit. Just say that you recognize the horror that was the Holocaust and be done with it. Visit the concentration camp memorial if you have to, but don't say, "We're all Jews." That's just weird.

I'd like Ben Shapiro to ask Obama about "being a Jew" in terms of faith practices and the history of Jews (excluding Holocaust questions because mostly everyone knows about that). Obama will probably chuckle, shift in his sit uncomfortably and say something along the lines that "being Jew" is more so of how one feels and if their parent was a Jew than any practice of traditions and religious beliefs. Actually, if I were Shapiro I'd look at Obama wits disgust as well as Sanders if they ever try to use the Jew card to gain sympathy or inclusion.