JUNE 30, 2018


NEWS AND VIEWS


TRUMP PRANKED – SECRET SERVICE CAME FOR A VISIT

http://abc13.com/politics/white-house-confirms-prank-call-to-president-trump/3681998/
White House official confirms comedian's prank-call to President Trump
JUNE 30, 3018

VIDEO -- Comedian John Melendez prank-called President Trump as Senator Bob Menendez.

A White House official speaking to ABC News confirmed that the audio of President Donald Trump speaking to comedian John Melendez is indeed authentic.

According to the White House official, the legislative affairs office was notified to have received a call from Senator Bob Menendez's office. In reality, it was Melendez.

It was discovered that Senator Menendez did not call the President after the White House contacted his office.

White House officials say the call was canceled but it still went through to Air Force One anyways*.

The comedian, who mentioned in his podcast that he was connected directly to the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner, said he was shocked to have been able to prank-call President Trump.

Melendez also took to Twitter to express he "enjoyed talking with Jared Kushner and President Trump."


ANYWAY OR ANYWAYS*

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/anyway-or-anyways

Anyway or Anyways?

What’s the difference between anyway and anyways? Is one more correct than the other?
By
Mignon Fogarty,
Grammar Girl
September 21, 2016

Anabell asks, "It is correct or incorrect to say 'anyways' to someone? As in 'Anyways, call me later!' 'Anyways' sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me."
The correct word is anyway, which is probably why the sound of anyways bothers you so much. Here are two examples of anyway being used correctly:

Anyway, call me later.

In that sentence, it’s being used to mean something like “getting back to what we were talking about” or maybe “regardless of what we just said.”Here’s another example, where anyway means something like “regardless.”

Squiggly hated cooking, but Aardvark signed him up for classes anyway.Why Do People Still Say ‘Anyways’?

You might be wondering why you still see anyways spoken and written if it’s wrong. Even though the word is now widely considered an error, it’s not new. The Oxford English Dictionary has citations going back as far as the 1200s. Today, they say it’s considered part of some American dialects. So it’s not so much that it’s wrong like a simple misspelling of bureaucrat is wrong (which, unfortunately, I do all the time), but it’s wrong like you wouldn’t want to use it in a job application or a school essay, but it’s also common in some regions or communities.

According to Google’s Ngram Viewer, which is a decent measure of how often words appear in edited text, mostly books, there has been a steady rise in the use of anyways since the 1960s, even in edited text. However, anyway is still vastly more common. In fact, you can’t even see that the use of anyways is rising until you remove anyway from the chart because it’s so much more popular that it swamps out the instances of anyways:

‘Anyways’ or ‘Any Way’?

What about any way? When should you use any way and how does it differ from anyway? In the two-word phrase, the noun way is being modified by the adjective any. Here’s an example of a sentence where you’d use the two-word version:

Is there any way you could call me later?

Notice how you could substitute another adjective, like some, in that sentence.

You could say,

Is there any way you could call me later?

But you could also say, Doing that test—can you substitute a different adjective?—can help you figure out whether you want the one-word version of anyway, or the two words: any and way.

The Adverb ‘Anyway’ Used to End With S And the two-word any way leads us to another interesting point. You may have heard that anyway can’t take an S because it’s an adverb, but that’s just not true. It’s easy to think of examples that prove it wrong. For example, the adverbs forwards and backwards are standard in British English (even though we use forward and backward in American English). Always is another adverb that ends with S, and I bet you didn’t know that the adverb always was originally two words: all and ways.

The Motivated Grammar blog explains that anyway is just like the adverbs always and sometimes, which also started out as two words: some and times. Long ago, English had more words that were something called the adverbial genitive, and some of them—like always, sometimes, and anyways—took an S. But because English isn’t consistent or predictable, always and sometimes kept their S and anyway lost it, at least as far as for what people want you to use in Standard English today. But knowing where anyways comes from maybe helps explain why it keeps showing up and sounds normal to some people.

That’s some interesting history I didn’t expect to find when I started researching this topic, but your quick and dirty tip is still to use anyway, and not anyways, if you want to be safely considered educated and to not have your words sound like nails on a chalkboard to people like Anabell. Thanks for the question!

This piece was originally published October 12, 2011 and updated September 21, 2016.



ANOTHER FOLK BELIEF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING OFF A WHOLE SPECIES, AND AGAIN, IT’S A CHINESE FERTILITY BELIEF. THE GOAL, THOUGH, IS NOT THE DOLPHIN, A MARINE MAMMAL, BUT A FISH OF A SIMILAR SIZE CALLED THE TATOABA. I EXPECT THE FISH ITSELF TO BE NEAR EXTINCTION AS WELL WITH THAT SORT OF DEMAND.

SCIENTISTS ARE OPTING FOR CAPTIVE BREEDING, ALTHOUGH THE ECOLOGICAL ISSUE OF GILL NETS IS THE DIRECT CAUSE OF DEATH. I HOPE MEXICO’S BAN WORKS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vaquita-porpoise-tracking-the-worlds-most-endangered-marine-mammal/
CBS NEWS June 30, 2018, 12:23 PM
Inside the effort to save the world's most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita

VIDEO – SAVING A SPECIES

As the sun crept above the horizon, CBS News' Don Dahler headed out in the Gulf of California with a disparate group of volunteers, veterinarians and marine biologists on a difficult -- some would say impossible -- mission to track the rarest of marine mammals: the vaquita, a species of porpoise. It's a mission two years in the making.

"This is bigger than vaquita. For conservation in general, for marine mammals, this is a big thing," said Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho who is directing the effort.

It's been an uphill battle against the odds, the cost -- now in the $5 million range -- and the elements. The challenge is amplified by the fact that there are so few of the diminutive porpoises left. Recent reports show the vaquita population has dropped from almost 600 in 1997 to just 30 today, found only in the Gulf of California.

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Vaquitas are getting stuck in nets intended for tatoaba fish, which can sell for up to $10,000 on the Chinese black market. CBS NEWS

The vaquita's rapid decline is an unintended consequence of the increasing demand for tatoaba, a type of fish that can fetch up to $10,000 each on the Chinese black market. Their swim bladder is believed to boost fertility.

"Basically the mesh size is the same size of a vaquita head, so they easily get entangled," Rojas-Bracho explained.

Thus, the desperate rush to save some for captive breeding before they're all gone. The operation requires delicate coordination. Spotter boats search the water for fins. When one or more porpoise is sighted, trained U.S. Navy dolphins act as herd dogs, moving the porpoises into position for the capture boats to net them. They're then carefully transferred onto a transport boat.

Their first stop? A specially constructed marine hospital for medical assessment. Then, a short trip to the vaquita's new home, a large retrofitted sea pen once used as a tourist aquarium that was towed there – nearly 2,000 miles from the Pacific.

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Sea pen where they take the vaquitas for captive breeding CBS NEWS

The complicated plan worked, at first. On day two of the project, they captured one for the first time ever. But that six-month-old female was just too stressed from the experience. They had to let her go.

The team took to the sea to try again, and again and again.

But all the effort and expense and frustration is also to bring the issue of illegal gillnets to the public's attention.

"If we can absolutely ensure that these underwater gillnets are not in a place where the remaining animals are, they would survive," one scientist explained. "They just need a chance."

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WHAT IS GILL NETTING?

Gillnetting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gillnetting is a common fishing method used by commercial and artisanal fishermen of all the oceans and in some freshwater and estuary areas. Gill nets are vertical panels of netting normally set in a straight line. Fish may be caught by gill nets in three ways :

wedged – held by the mesh around the body
gilled – held by mesh slipping behind the opercula,
tangled – held by teeth, spines, maxillaries, or other protrusions without the body penetrating the mesh.


https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/americas/mexico-bans-gill-nets-vaquita-porpoise/index.html
Mexico bans gill nets to save endangered porpoise
By Amy La Porte, CNN
Updated 6:04 PM ET, Sun July 2, 2017

VIDEO – BY SEA SHEPHERD SOCIETY
PHOTOGRAPH -- The number of vaquita porpoises is down to 30, experts estimate.


(CNN)After years of pressure on the Mexican government, a permanent ban on gillnet fishing has gone into effect in a bid to save a critically endangered species of porpoise.

Experts estimate there are 30 vaquita porpoises remaining, and all of them live exclusively in the waters of the Gulf of California.

Banning the killer
The now banned nets, known as gill nets, are designed to catch the giant totoaba fish, whose swim bladder is considered a delicacy in China and sold for more than $4,500 per pound.

The similar size of the two species means gill nets invariably ensnare the endangered porpoises as well.

A vaquita trapped and killed in a gill net.

The World Wildlife Fund released a statement praising the Mexican government's decision to move beyond a temporary ban.

"This is a fantastic and encouraging step forward in the path to saving the vaquita, provided the ban is fully enforced and accompanied by fishing alternatives for local communities," the statement said.

Dolphin saviors?

A breeding program was also announced by the Mexican government and could involve the use of US Navy-trained dolphins.

"Vaquitas will be located using boats, and, at the request of the Mexican government, will receive help from US Navy Marine Mammal Program," according to the National Marine Mammal Foundation.

The US Navy may use dolphins to help.

The idea is to have the dolphins use echolocation to find the last remaining vaquita porpoises and then corral them into a safe breeding ground.

CNN has reached out to the US Navy but it is yet to confirm the program.

The WWF says it is wary of any program that removes the porpoises from their natural habitat.

"Any effort to capture and provide sanctuary for the remaining vaquita and breed them in captivity must be explicitly linked to a plan to return vaquita to the wild once their habitat is secure," it said.

Hollywood champions

The gill net ban is part of an agreement between the foundations of actor Leonardo DiCaprio and businessman Carlos Slim, and the Mexican government.
DiCaprio posted his support for the new measures on Instagram, saying, "Great news and a huge step forward as the permanent ban on gill nets has been made official. Thank you to all who helped make this happen, including President (Enrique) Peña Nieto."

In the past, DiCaprio used Twitter and Instagram to get his millions of followers to sign a petition demanding Mexico's President take immediate action.

Enrique Peña Nieto
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Mexico's government is making a major effort, doing what should have been done decades ago to save the Vaquita Marina.

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At the time, the President responded in a series of tweets saying, "Mexico's government is making a major effort, doing what should have been done decades ago to save the Vaquita Marina."



ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE MOST ABOUT SANDERS IS THAT HE EXAMINES ISSUES FOR HIMSELF, AND DOESN’T JOIN CROWDS UNLESS HE LIKES THE PEOPLE AND AGREES WITH THE ISSUE. I PERSONALLY THINK THAT “THE WISDOM OF THE CROWD” IS A RELATIVE THING, AND SHOULD ALWAYS BE APPROACHED WITH PRAGMATISM. IT DEPENDS ON WHO IS IN THE CROWD, AND WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE ESPOUSING.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-faces-rebuke-refusal-support-abolishing-ice/
Sanders Faces Rebuke Over Refusal to Support Abolishing ICE
BY: Haris Alic
June 29, 2018 1:24 pm

PHOTOGRAPH -- Sen. Bernie Sanders / Getty Images

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) is facing rebuke from progressive activists and the far left of the Democratic Party for declining to call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Earlier this week during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, Sanders was asked whether he supported abolishing ICE, the federal agency responsible for preventing cross-border crime and illegal immigration.

The senator was conspicuously ambiguous in his answer, refusing to call for abolition and expressing general support for "a national program" to "deal with immigration in a rational way."

"I think that what we need is to create policies which deal with immigration in a rational way," Sanders said. "What we need is Trump to sit down with members of Congress and work on a national program which deals with this serious issue."

Sanders' views did not seem to sit well with a younger generation of progressive activists and liberals, who are increasingly in favor of unmitigated restrictions on immigration.

Jeremey Scahill, a journalist who alongside Glen Greenwald founded The Intercept—a liberal-leaning online publication—in 2014, perhaps best summed up the growing sentiment on the left. The journalist took to social media shortly after the interview was broadcast to lambast the 76-year-old senator for having chosen to stand on the "wrong side of history."

"Then Sanders is choosing to be on the wrong side of history on this issue," Scahill tweeted. "ICE was created under Bush-Cheney and has done what they wanted it to do, particularly under Trump. It can’t be reformed."


jeremy scahill
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Then Sanders is choosing to be on the wrong side of history on this issue. ICE was created under Bush-Cheney and has done what they wanted it to do, particularly under Trump. It can’t be reformed.

Jake Tapper
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.@SenSanders declines to join call for abolishing ICE on #CNNSOTU https://cnn.it/2Mkz4rn

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Sanders' aversion to abolishing ICE triggered similar rebuke from other journalists and outlets on the left, with some even denouncing the self-described Democratic socialist as a "neoliberal," a term generally reserved for those who favor free-market capitalism above all else, and as a "moderate."


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bernie sanders is wrong for not calling to abolish ice.

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Thanks to the burgeoning Abolish ICE movement, Bernie Sanders is now a pragmatic centrist Democrat.


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Neoliberal shill. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/24/sotu-sanders-ice.cnn …

10:52 AM - Jun 29, 2018

Sanders declines to call for abolishing ICE - CNN Video
In an interview with Jake Tapper, Bernie Sanders doesn't go as far as other Democrats, like NY gov candidate Cynthia Nixon, in calling to abolish ICE.

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Hey @jaketapper next time @BernieSanders is on talking about immigration, ask him to comment on the fact that Vermont is 39th out of 50 states in immigrants per capita and—while the US immigrant pop as a whole has gone up 6%—Vermont’s has plummeted by 13% https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/06/11/opinions/the-problem-with-vermonts-bright-idea-yang/index.html …

Jake Tapper
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.@SenSanders declines to join call for abolishing ICE on #CNNSOTU https://cnn.it/2Mkz4rn

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Bernie Sanders is not the left. http://bit.ly/2KjAB3t

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.@SenSanders declines to join call for abolishing ICE on #CNNSOTU https://cnn.it/2Mkz4rn


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Conventional wisdom: Bernie represents the left wing of the party

Truth: Bernie is a moderate who feuds with establishment figures in the party

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Sanders' deviation from progressive orthodoxy on abolishing ICE underscores the senator's long-held views on immigration, which hampered his 2016 presidential campaign.

The senator has generally been supportive of extending the Obama-era Deferred Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which granted legal protections to nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, and a pathway to citizenship.

Sanders, however, has also expressed support for decreasing immigration overall, arguing that "bringing in significant numbers of unskilled" migrants only serves to "depress wages" for American workers.

His voting record has generally been in line with such sentiments.

In 2007, Sanders voted against an immigration reform measure championed by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) on the grounds that the legislation would increase the number of guest workers allowed to come and remain in the country.

In 2013, Sanders voted in favor of the "Gang of Eight" immigration reform proposal, which would have created a pathway for illegal immigrants to gain legal status and eventually citizenship. The bill also beefed up border security by adding up to 40,000 new border patrol agents and building 700 miles of supplementary fencing to prevent illegal crossings. The legislation, which passed the Senate but ultimately failed to receive consideration in the House, would have also ended the diversity visa lottery system.


THE DONALD AND PITCHFORK PAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4y91qpaiM
To Understand President Donald Trump, Look To Pat Buchanan | The Last Word | MSNBC STEVE KORNACKI
Published on Jun 29, 2018



HONORS STUDENT IS APPARENTLY IN THE WRONG CAR AT THE WRONG TIME. EITHER THAT OR HE WAS ACTUALLY “GUILTY OF SOMETHING,” TO MAKE HIM JUMP OUT WHEN THE CAR STOPPED AND RUN. BASIC RULES. NEVER RUN FROM A DOG OR A POLICEMAN.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/antwon-rose-jr-teen-shot-dead-by-police-in-east-pittsburgh-wrote-now-haunting-poem-about-violence/
CBS NEWS June 22, 2018, 8:16 AM
Teen shot dead by police wrote now-haunting poem about violence

PHOTOGRAPH -- Poem about violence written by teen who would himself be shot to death by police is seen next to undated photo of Antwon Rose Jr. STK, EMBRACE LIFE/WOODLAND HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT)/CBS PITTSBURGH

PITTSBURGH -- During a downtown rally Thursday for Antwon Rose Jr., the teen killed by East Pittsburgh police late Tuesday, a poem written by Antwon was read, reports CBS Pittsburgh.

The Woodlands Hills School District released it.

"His mom, Michelle Kenny, wants everyone to have it," Superintendent Licia Lentz said in a message.

Rose reportedly wrote the poem two years ago during a 10th grade Honors English class at Woodland Hills High School.

The poem, titled, "I AM NOT WHAT YOU THINK!" describes Rose's fear of violence in his community.

One line reads, "I see mothers bury their sons; I want my mom to never feel that pain."

The 17-year-old was shot and killed by an East Pittsburgh police officer as he ran from a car that officers had stopped.

The officer fired three shots at Rose, hitting him in the back and killing him.

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I GUESS THIS IS INFORMAL AND UNORGANIZED CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. WE DON’T SEE THE WHOLE VIDEO, SO IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL IF THERE IS ANY SENSIBLE REASON FOR THIS, THE COP’S OR THE MAN’S ACTIONS. ANY PROVOCATION? .

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-06-30/video-shows-pennsylvania-cop-tasering-unarmed-man
Video Shows Pennsylvania Cop Tasering Unarmed Man

SCREENGRAB -- A man sits on a curb, moments before getting Tasered by a police officer, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 28, 2018, in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. MANDATORY CREDIT. Jay Jay/via REUTERSREUTERS

(REUTERS) - A Pennsylvania police officer is under investigation after he was caught on video using a stun gun on an unarmed black man who was sitting on a curb.

The video https://www.facebook.com/100019434198312/videos/190038081653997 was captured by a bystander on Thursday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and posted on Facebook. It has since received 2.4 million views and is the latest incident to spark a public outcry in the United States over excessive use of force by police against black men.

Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace said in a statement https://www.facebook.com/CityOfLancasterPA she was "upset" by the images and an investigation was underway into the use of force in the incident.

Police stopped the man, Sean D. Williams, 27, on Thursday while responding to a 911 call about a man with a baseball bat who had pursued another person, according to a report from the police bureau https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/lbop/19659/arrests/williams-sean-d-criminal-warrant-possession-controlled-substance-pcp-and-public.

The video shows Williams sitting on a curb, being repeatedly asked to straighten his legs by Lancaster City Police Bureau Officer Philip Bernot.

Williams begins to follow the white officer's directions then folds his legs up under himself again, at which point Bernot fires his stun gun and Williams writhes around in pain.

Lancaster police said the stun gun, widely referred to as a Taser due to its brand name, was used because Williams failed to follow instructions.

(Reporting By Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

Copyright 2018 Thomson Reuters.



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