Fox News:
Air conditioning company Carrier said Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with President-elect Donald Trump that would keep 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis.Let me take a guess: Tax breaks? Whenever politicians get private businesses to agree to something, there is always a tax break in it. And the federal tax code just got another page added.
Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Indiana's outgoing governor, planned to travel to the state Thursday to unveil the agreement alongside company officials.
In other "Trumped up" news...
CNN:
If it was New Year's Eve, they could have spent $888 per head on a tasting menu. But instead, President-elect Donald Trump met potential secretary of state nominee Mitt Romney Tuesday at Jean Georges, a three-Michelin star New York City restaurant inside his Trump International Hotel.Somebody explain why that first line is important? This is what we mean by "liberal bias in the media". It wasn't New Year's Eve, and they didn't spend that much. Although I am certain that dinner cost a pretty penny:
Instead of being joined by their wives, which was the original expectation, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was their only other guest. He was tapped by Trump to become his chief of staff when he enters the White House in January.Whenever a meal includes the following, expect a big check for it: frog legs, any scallops that are not bay scallops, anything "caramelized", and an "emulsion".
The three men ordered a young garlic soup with thyme and sautéed frog legs, and diver scallops with caramelized cauliflower and caper-raisin emulsion as appetizers, according to a readout to reporters.
However, I will admit the young garlic soup sounds delicious, and I am not a big fan of soups.
Food aside, why is this a news story? Remember that first line? This is all about making Trump look like an out-of-touch rich guy. Maybe he is, but if I were rich, I would love to eat like that. You won't hear me casting aspersions on Trump or Romney for that meal.
Remember this folks: Envy is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason.
In yet more "Trumped up" news...
Washington Post:
Jessie Grady walked into a Michaels store last week to buy a Santa hat for her young daughter.In other words, we have no clue what caused the incident. We just know it happened.
She ended up witnessing — and filming — another customer’s “unprovoked attack” in which the woman unloaded on black Michaels employees, claiming she was being discriminated against and declaring that she voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
“And I voted for Trump! So there! What, you want to kick me out because of that?” the woman shouts in the video, which has gone viral. “And look who won! And look who won! And look who won!”
According to Grady, the Nov. 23 incident occurred at the arts and crafts store in Chicago after the woman told Grady to go ahead of her at the register. Once Grady was done checking out, she said she heard the woman grow irate. The woman’s “racist rant,” Grady said, included slurs.
“It just sounded like a disgruntled customer for a second,” Grady told The Washington Post. “And then she made a homophobic slur, she started cussing the manager, all sorts of things. It just kind of got out of control. So I waited, but it was like, when she started yelling African American women are discriminating against me, that’s when I pulled out my phone.”
It was not clear from the footage why the woman thought she was being discriminated against.
Watching the video, it is clear the woman in question is furious beyond reason, and starts spouting inanities at other people. So her reaction doesn't make her right or wrong, because what happened isn't seen. We have all been furious to the point where we say things which we regret later. That isn't proof of anything.
However, because this incident has such a strong racial aspect to it, and has hit a racial nerve, it deserves discussion. Just don't assume the woman is wrong because of the racial aspect of her rant. Would you discard her rant if she was a black woman complaining about discrimination from whites?
Finally, in weird news that can only come from California...
Fox 5 New York:
California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm.Sounds like the usual progressive stupidity taking over. However, there is an interesting aspect to it:
The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.
Regulators are looking for ways to reduce so-called enteric emissions — methane produced by bovine digestive systems. That could eventually require changes to what cattle eat.There are positives and negatives to this kind of energy production, and I will post a more thorough analysis of it later. We will see about whether it is worth "making a stink".
But the biggest target is dairy manure, which accounts for about a quarter of the state's methane emissions.
State regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions with methane digesters, which capture methane from manure in large storage tanks and convert the gas into electricity.
The state has set aside $50 million to help dairies set up digesters, but farmers say that's not nearly enough to equip the state's roughly 1,500 dairies.
New Hope Dairy, which has 1,500 cows in Sacramento County, installed a $4 million methane digester in 2013, thanks to state grants and a partnership with California Biogas LLC, which operates the system to generate renewable power for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
Co-owner Arlin Van Groningen, a third-generation farmer, says he couldn't afford one if he had to buy and run it himself.
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