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Business and trading licences
Street cafe licence policy not on Promenade
Street cafe licence policy (not on Promenade)
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Blackpool Council welcomes well designed and managed cafes. The aim of this policy is to ensure that premises with the benefit of these licences are well designed and managed so that they enhance the town centre.
The following policy guidelines have been developed to outline issues that will be taken into account when determining applications.
Size and layout
The use of land designated as public highway and other areas where there is public access will not be allowed unless there is at least 1.2 m clear access between the café and the kerb to allow pedestrians to pass by safely.
In a pedestrian zone there must be at least 3.5 m of unobstructed space in front of the café area. In certain busy streets a clear depth requirement will be determined by the council on an ad hoc basis, but such clearance will not be less then 1.8 m.
Where the use directly fronts the premises from which refreshments are served, there must be an unobstructed corridor to the shop entrance of 1.2 m at all times.
The layout of tables, chairs, access points and means of enclosure needs to be considered before an application is made. It is important that the layout of these areas do not provide any obstruction or inconvenience to customers with disabilities and it is important that sufficient space is left between tables for wheelchair access.
A plan identifying the proposed size of the outside area, layout and access points must be submitted with the application for consideration.
Means of enclosure
When in use the area will need to be enclosed to demarcate the licensed area and contain the tables and chairs.
The enclosure should be removed outside of the licensed period or whenever the café is not intending to operate within the licensed period. All tables, chairs, barriers and any other items must be stored within the premises when not in use.
The design of the barrier must be approved by the council. The barriers should be:
Lightweight in construction and portable, but stable and robust enough to prevent collapse if accidentally walked into, or in a sudden gust of wind
Of a suitable colour, white, pale shades and gaudy colours should be avoided
Constructed of metal, plastic or wood. Rope barriers or flexible/retractable tape are not considered suitable.
The council would encourage the use of planters which can be attractive as part of the means of enclosure.
Photographs and/or brochures containing the details of proposed barriers/other means of enclosure should be submitted for approval with a new application and whenever changes to existing enclosures are proposed.
The furniture should be of a high quality design and construction. The design must be consistent throughout. Plastic tables and chairs would not enhance the street scene and are unlikely to be approved.
Photographs and/or brochures containing the details of the proposed furniture should be submitted for approval with a new application and whenever changes are proposed.
It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that any aspects of operation and equipment comply with all appropriate legislation and health and safety requirements.
Patrons using the outside area should be seated when using the facilities.
The transfer of food to the outside areas must be through the use of table service. Whilst there is no requirement for table service in respect of drinks, such a service would be encouraged as it ensures regular supervision of the outside areas.
The licence holder will be expected to maintain the tables, chairs and outdoor area in a tidy and orderly manner at all times. All litter, empty/abandoned drinks and used crockery must be removed at regular intervals.
Amplified music in the outside areas is not permitted. Not to erect or permit at any time any 'A' boards or other signs within the confines or adjacent to the sites.
The conduct of people within the café area is the responsibility of the operator. Unruly or rowdy behaviour may lead to the suspension, withdrawal or non-renewal of the licence. If incidents do occur, additional conditions for example the use of plastic containers or increased supervision may be added to the licence.
Standard conditions are imposed on each licence however the council reserves the right to impose additional conditions, for example CCTV or door supervision, if they feel that it is necessary.
Compliance/enforcement visits will ordinarily be undertaken by officers from Quality Standards and the Bid Team.
Failure to comply with the conditions of licence may result in the suspension or revocation of the licence.
Incidents of nuisance or disorder resulting from the use of the outside area may result in the addition of further conditions to the licence, suspension or revocation.
The fee charged is dependent on the size of the proposed outside area.
A fee of £20.30 will be charged for each square metre (or part thereof). Taking into account the current economic climate, it has been decided that fees for larger areas will capped at a maximum of £1,010.
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The first step is to obtain the location for ONEAGENT_INSTALLER_SCRIPT_URL. This information is presented to you during OneAgent installation.
Deploy OneAgent on Mesos agent nodes.
If you're using DC/OS to manage your Mesos cluster, you can take advantage of the Dynatrace package in the DC/OS universe. The universe package will automatically deploy Dynatrace to all your Mesos agent nodes.
If you're not using DC/OS, you can run OneAgent as a Marathon app by following this example.
REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_URL is the location for ONEAGENT_INSTALLER_SCRIPT_URL you determined earlier.
REPLACE_WITH_NUMER_OF_NODES is the integer representing the number of nodes in your Mesos cluster.
After you created the dynatrace-oneagent.json file, send an HTTP POST request to the Mesos master leader to deploy the Marathon app with OneAgent.
Deploy OneAgent on Mesos master nodes.
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Full Mini MOKE production to return to the UK
Posted on 23 Sep 2021 by James Devonshire
The revived Mini MOKE recreational vehicle will be built entirely in the UK following a new agreement with manufacturing firm Fablink.
Popularised by the likes of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Brigitte Bardot, the MOKE was a sixties icon. The original Mini-based beach buggies were made at British Motor Corporation's (BMC) Longbridge plant in Birmingham between 1964 and 1968 before production moved abroad and then finally ended in 1993.
Having acquired the MOKE trademark and global distribution rights in 2017, MOKE International began reviving the small soft-top. Since its relaunch in 2020, the MOKE has been engineered in Britain but manufactured in France. Now, that's about to change.
Going forward, all MOKEs will be built at a state-of-the-art facility operated by Northamptonshire-based UK automotive manufacturing company Fablink Group.
Fablink, which also carries out manufacturing and engineering work for automotive manufacturers including Jaguar Land Rover and Morgan, currently has around 700 employees across six UK production sites.
According to MOKE International, restoring production to the UK was made possible by government grant funding from the Niche Vehicle Network, as well as the recent UK-EU tariff-free trade deal, which allows purely UK-produced models to be exported to the European Union.
Isobel Dando, the CEO of MOKE International, said: "The return of full MOKE production to British shores represents a homecoming for one of our nation's best-loved icons.
"Since reviving the marque in 2017, we have re-captivated existing enthusiasts and introduced an entirely new generation to MOKE's perfect combination of fun, utility and open-air thrills.
"This has been reflected in significant demand from our home market, affirming our plans to light up beach resorts around the world through the global market introduction of the ultimate waterfront-to-beach house vehicle."
MOKEs are available to buy in the UK with prices starting at £20,000. The car has a 1083cc engine and a top speed of 68mph.
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The EU's dairy policy dates from the 1960s. It helps to create stable market conditions for EU milk producers and processors. The policy has evolved overtime following the market orientation approach of the Common Agricultural Policy.
The milk sector and milk products sector is integrated into the Common Organisation of the Markets in agricultural products (CMO Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council). Several market tools are available in the dairy sector: they provide a safety net in case of serious market imbalance.
Overview of measures taken since 2014 and 2016 in the wake of the Russian import ban and, later on, global market imbalance.
One of these market tools is the buying-in of butter and skimmed milk powder (SMP) into public storage – known as "public intervention".
Between 1 March and 30 September each year, a maximum quantity of 109,000 t SMP and 50,000 t butter complying with specific quality requirements can be offered by private operators, to be bought in at a fixed price. Once these volumes are reached, intervention continues by tender until the end of the intervention period.
Public intervention stocks are sold back on the market via a tendering procedure, opened by a Commission Regulation.
A tendering procedure for the sale of intervention stocks of skimmed milk powder was opened by the end of November 2016.
Deadline to submit offers for the tender: on the first and third Tuesday of the month at 11.00 (Brussels time). If Tuesday is a public holiday the time limit shall be 11.00 (Brussels time) on the previous working day.
For the latest update on volumes, please refer to the Milk Market Observatory page. Information about tenders and quantities available for the next sale are displayed in page 4.
The Paying agencies of the Member States are responsible for managing and ensuring control of operations linked to intervention measures in the milk and milk products sector.
Another market instrument is the aid for private storage of butter, SMP and cheeses with a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)/Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). This aid supports part of the storage costs while the products are temporarily withdrawn from the market. The opening of private storage aid is not automatic (unlike public intervention) and requires the adoption of a Commission regularion.
Private storage schemes for butter and SMP traditionally finance storage costs for a minimum period of 90 days and a maximum of 210 days (this is defined in the Commission regulation opening the scheme). The aid usually comprises a fixed rate per tonne, plus a daily amount per tonne.
Exceptional ad-hoc measures can be mobilised in case of severe market disturbance as provided for in the CMO Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
Measures concerning agreements and decisions during periods of severe imbalance in markets (art.222 CMO).
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1612 of 8 September 2016 providing aid for milk production reduction – part of the "2016 July Package"
The so-called "Milk Package" introduced a series of instruments to better structure the supply chain in the dairy sector, to improve its resilience following the end of the quota system in 2015. It has been fully applicable since 3 October 2012.
The European Union (EU) school scheme, applicable since 1 August 2017, supports the distribution of fruit, vegetables,milk and certain milk products to schools across the EU as part of a wider programme of education about European agriculture and the benefits of healthy eating.
The milk quota regime which had been introduced in 1984 in order to address problems of surplus production expired on 1 April 2015.
Milk and milk products or spreadable fats must comply with specific standards to be marketed in the EU (Article 78 CMO).
The EU is a major player for dairy exports worldwide and is the biggest cheese exporter. Since 2009, exports have been carried out without export refunds. Dairy exports under certain quotas opened by third countries are subject to the issuing of an export licence.
An import regime applies to the entry of dairy products into the EU. Preferential imports are subject to the issuing of an import licence and, in general, payment of an import duty (tariff). Several trade agreements, multilateral and bilateral, have resulted in preferential imports at reduced or zero duty, mostly in the form of import quotas.


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Denver gas prices continue to increase; U.S. average price jumps to $3 a gallon
Posted: May 21, 2018 / 12:04 PM MDT
Updated: May 21, 2018 / 12:05 PM MDT
CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average price of regular-grade gasoline in the U.S. jumped 10 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $3 per gallon.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the price has spiked 41 cents over the past three months.
In Denver, the average gas price has risen 6.3 cents in the past week to $2.75 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.com.
The average for Colorado is at $2.87, which is up 6.9 cents over the past week, according to the website.
Lundberg says the increase is largely driven by higher crude oil costs and the phasing-in of summer-grade gasoline, which is used to prevent smog.
The highest average price in the contiguous 48 states was $3.79 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lowest was $2.54 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The average price for diesel fuel rose 9 cents, to $3.23.
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Dems: 'We May Have Lost The SCOTUS Seat, But At Least We Kept Our Dignity'
Posted: October 11, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Politics | Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, Mid-terms, SCOTUS | Leave a comment
U.S.—Democratic leaders consoled themselves from their failure to stop Brett Kavanaugh from assuming a seat on the Supreme Court Monday by reminding the nation that although they lost the SCOTUS seat, they were able to keep their dignity.
As liberal protesters banged on the doors of the Supreme Court and attempted to claw them open, Senate Democrats calmed their constituents by pointing out that they were able to be the bigger person in all this. Read the rest of this entry »
Corruption in Portlandia: Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor's Blessing
Posted: August 4, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: Anarchy, Antifa, Democrats, Far Left, Ice, Immigration, Portland Police, Radical Left, Ted Wheeler | 2 Comments
A vicious mob targeted the ICE office and even a food cart. The police followed orders to do nothing.
Andy Ngo reports: Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE's immediate abolition. They're gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.
A mob surrounded ICE's office in Southwest Portland June 19. They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. They sent "guards" to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. Police stayed away. "At this time I am denying your request for additional resources," the Portland Police Bureau's deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. The facility shut down for more than a week.
Signs called ICE employees "Nazis" and "white supremacists." Others accused them of running a "concentration camp," and demanded open borders and prosecution of ICE agents. Along a wall, vandals wrote the names of ICE staff, encouraging others to publish their private information online.
Federal workers were defenseless. An ICE officer, who asked that his name not be published, told me one of his colleagues was trailed in a car and confronted when he went to pick up his daughter from summer camp. Later people showed up at his house. Another had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the "Gestapo." Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Remember When Obama Did This In Response To Russian Meddling?
Posted: July 19, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Russia | Tags: Cyber Attack, Cyberwarfare, Democrats, Dmitry Medvedev, media, Obama, Rush Limbaugh | Leave a comment
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was on a tear on Wednesday over the media's response to President Trump's widely criticized summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Limbaugh dedicated one segment of the three-hour show to providing some uncomfortable flashblacks for Trump's Democratic critics.
Limbaugh led into the discussion by quoting a June 2018 story by Yahoo's Michael Isikoff titled, "Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016":
The Obama White House's chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia's attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a 'back burner' after he was ordered to 'stand down' his efforts in the summer of 2016.
Here's the video of Obama's chief cyber official Michael Daniel revealing the "stand down" order in a Senate Intelligence Committee:
"This is the Obama administration," said Limbaugh. "They knew the Russians were hacking. They knew Russians were engaging in cyber warfare, and the Obama White House chief cyber official testified that he was told to stand down. Read the rest of this entry »
The Left Loses Its Cool
Posted: June 26, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: Activism, Bigotry, Democrats, Donald Trump, Global Panic, Marxism, Radical Left, Saul Alinsky, Violence | 1 Comment
"When you're violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there's something wrong," said one top GOP official.
Marc Caputo and Daniel Lippman report: Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants. A third was denied service. Florida GOP Attorney General Pam Bondi required a police escort away from a movie about Mister Rogers after activists yelled at her in Tampa — where two other Republican lawmakers say they were also politically harassed last week, one of them with her kids in tow.
In the Donald Trump era, the left is as aggressively confrontational as anyone can remember.
Passers-by gather to take photos in front of the Red Hen Restaurant on June 23, in Lexington, Virginia. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that she was booted from the Virginia establishment because she works for President Donald Trump. | Daniel LIn/AP Photo
What it means for 2018 — whether it portends a blue wave of populist revolt for Democrats or a red wall of silent majority resistance from Republicans — largely depends on one's political persuasion. But there's a bipartisan sense that this election season marks another inflection point in the collapse of civil political discourse.
Few disagree that Democrats are marching, protesting and confronting Republican officials with more intensity during the midterm elections than at any time in decades. The progressive fervor recalls conservative opposition to the previous president in his first midterm, when Democratic members of Congress were left running from disruptive town halls and ended up being crushed at the polls in November.
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet — in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station — you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," implored California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters at a Saturday rally, prompting an immediate conservative backlash on social media.
The intense, in-your-face approach toward public officials is only expected to intensify, fueled by social media and what appears to be an increasingly polarized and angry electorate. Read the rest of this entry »
What's 'Genius' for Obama is Scandal When it Comes to Trump
Posted: March 21, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Cambridge Analytica, Democrats, Donald Trump, Facebook, Facebook's algorithm, journalism, Mark Zuckerberg, media | 1 Comment
The scandal involving Cambridge Analytica's abuse of Facebook data underscores the point.
Ben Shapiro writes:
… In 2012, The Guardian reported that President Obama's reelection team was "building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before."
… Facebook had no problem with such activity then. They do now. There's a reason for that. The former Obama director of integration and media analytics stated that, during the 2012 campaign, Facebook allowed the Obama team to "suck out the whole social graph"; Facebook "was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing." She added, "They came to [the] office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side."
Not so with Trump. As soon as Facebook realized that Cambridge Analytica had pursued a similar strategy, they suspended the firm.
This whole hullaballoo about Facebook isn't complicated.
1. Trump wins.
2. Democrats/Left declare social media in "crisis," threaten legislation.
3. Social media heads punish conservatives.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 20, 2018
Again, this isn't surprising. Since Trump's election, Democrats — in search of a rationale for their favored candidate's defeat — have blamed a bevy of social media outlets. Senate Democrats trotted out pathetic Russian-created memes on Facebook, viewed by a handful of human beings, as an excuse for Hillary's loss; Democrats claimed — without evidence — that "fake news" had swamped Facebook and thus led to Trump's victory. Democrats have also insisted that Facebook be regulated. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) raged, "You've created these platforms, and now they're being misused, and you have to be the ones to do something about it. Or we will." Facebook's former privacy manager called for the government to step into an oversight role regarding Facebook.
[Read the full story here, at TheHill]
In February, Wired magazine ran a cover story specifically dealing with Facebook's role in the election of 2016, and their subsequent attempts to "fix" the problem. After the election, Mark Zuckerberg even met with Barack Obama, apparently in an attempt to convince Obama that he was serious about stopping the "misuse" of the platform. And in February, Zuckerberg said he wanted to re-jigger the algorithms on his platform to benefit content that Facebook deems "trustworthy, informative, and local." Wired celebrated: "You can't make the world more open and connected if you're breaking it apart." Read the rest of this entry »
Please Don't Shut Down The Government, Democrats, Because That Would Be Awful (Not)
Posted: January 21, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Humor, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Amnesty, comedy, DACA, Democrats, Fredocons, Shutdown | Leave a comment
What a tragedy it would be if Democrats made good on their threat and decided DACA was so important that they must shut down the federal government over it.
Kurt Schlichter writes: What a tragedy it would be if Democrats made good on their threat and decided DACA was so important that they must shut down the federal government over it. Please don't! Why, I'd be heartbroken if the government did less and a bunch of foreigners didn't get rewarded for ignoring our laws. I think this is just the right hill for the Democrats to choose to fight to the death on, and I encourage them to do so. Throw us right in that briar patch, because you are smart and savvy and there's no way a big dummy like Trump could beat you and make you look like fools.
You remember DACA? It's an acronym that stands for "That Thing Democrats Want To Use To Fill The Voter Rolls With Foreigners And GOP Donors Want To Use To Get More Serfs To Work For Peanuts While Actual Americans Get Shafted And Called 'Racist' If They Dare Complain." The Democrats desperately want DACA because you Normal people have let them down and voted for your own interests rather than in the way Nancy Pelosi instructed you. Bad, bad electorate! You definitely need to be replaced.
[Read the full story here, at TownHall]
The GOP wants it because its big money donors want it because you actual Americans demand to be treated with respect by your employers and, well, paying Americans what they're worth is bad for business. And the Senate GOP Sissy Caucus of sanctimonious twits wants it because it gives them a chance to pose and preen and pretend to have the moral high ground over those wicked evil bad bad bad Republicans who want to do what actual Republican voters want done instead of being guided by the eccentric moral compass that Jeff Flake keeps inside himself right next to his head.
The "Schumerhole" controversy arose because Donald Trump indicated that giving Big Amnesty everything it wanted, and in return allowing him to totally alienate his base, was a bad deal. Read the rest of this entry »
How Democracies Panic
Posted: January 21, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Autocracy, Barack Obama, Democracy, Democrats, Global Panic, GOP, Harry Ried, Newt Gingrich, Progressive | 1 Comment
We are living in an era of political panic.
Yuval Levin writes: Some of President Donald Trump's most enthusiastic supporters in 2016 were motivated to overlook his shortcomings by desperate fear that our system of government was near death and only the most extreme measures could save it. A poll conducted by PRRI and the Atlantic immediately after the election found that more than 60 percent of Trump's voters believed the 2016 election was "the last chance to stop America's decline." As one pro-Trump essayist famously put it, things had gotten so bad that it was time either to "charge the cockpit or you die."
" … Levitsky and Ziblatt essentially ignore core conservative complaints about the ways in which the left has undermined our constitutional norms and institutions. The progressive celebration of executive unilateralism, of the administrative state, and of a politicized judicial branch are left unmentioned. But even though they do not amount to autocracy, of course, these long-term trends are surely threats to American democracy and of at least the magnitude of President Trump's tweets.
And yet to say so, Levitsky and Ziblatt suggest, would itself amount to an attack on our institutions. Without a hint of irony, they note that one of the ways the Tea Party movement undermined political norms was that it lodged the accusation "that President Obama posed a threat to our democracy." Later they say, regarding Republican critiques of Obama, that "such extremism encourages politicians to abandon forbearance. If Barack Obama is 'a threat to the rule of law,' as Senator Ted Cruz claimed, then it made sense to block his judicial appointments by any means necessary." Presumably this means that if you write an entire book arguing that Donald Trump threatens to bring the death of democracy, you are similarly justifying resistance to his administration by any means necessary.
Bill Clinton Lost President's Nuclear Codes, and Nobody Found Out
Posted: January 8, 2018 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, War Room, White House | Tags: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Gen. Hugh Shelton, nuclear, Nuclear Codes, Nuclear Football | Leave a comment
A military aide carries the "football," a leather briefcase holding classified nuclear war plans, onto Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, April 7, 2010. Cliff Owen/AP
The codes needed to launch a nuclear strike are never far from the president's side — at least they're not supposed to be.
The codes needed to launch a US nuclear strike are supposed to be kept close to the president at all times.
A department within the Defense Department is tasked with overseeing all aspects of the nuclear-launch process, including the codes.
During Bill Clinton's presidency, officials from that department discovered the codes had gone missing.
Christopher Woody reports: The process the president has to go through to launch the US's nuclear weapons isn't as simple as pressing a button, but the key component of that process — the codes needed to authorize the launch — are never far from the president.
At least they're never supposed to be.
According to Gen. Hugh Shelton, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1997 to September 2001, the number of redundancies in the nuclear-launch process "is staggering." All of steps are "dependent on one vital element without which there can be no launch," he wrote in his 2010 autobiography, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior."
That element, the president's authorization codes, is supposed to remain in close proximity to the president at all times, carried by one of five military aides, representing each branch of the military. The codes are on a card called the "biscuit" carried within the "football," a briefcase that is officially known as the "president's emergency satchel."
President Bill Clinton, with Defense Secretary William Cohen, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry "Hugh" Shelton, in Washington, DC, September 15, 1998. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
However, around 2000, according to Shelton, a member of the department within the Pentagon that is responsible for all pieces of the nuclear process was dispatched to the White House to physically look at the codes and ensure they were correct — a procedure required to happen every 30 days. (The set of codes was to be replaced entirely every four months.)
That official was told by a presidential aide that President Bill Clinton did have the codes, but was in an important meeting and could not be disturbed.
The aide assured the official that Clinton took the codes seriously and had them close by. The official was dismayed, but he accepted the excuse and left. Read the rest of this entry »
Josh Meyer Gets an Echo Chamber Beat-Down
Posted: December 28, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Terrorism, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Cassandra, Democrats, DOJ, Drug Trafficking, Echo Chamber, Iran, Iran Deal, Josh Meyer, Politico, propaganda, The Secret Backstory Of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook, Twitter | Leave a comment
Politico reporter is punished for raising the curtain on Obama's Hezbollah policy.
Lee Smith reports: A week after Josh Meyer's Politico expose, "The Secret Backstory Of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook," former Obama officials are still berating Meyer for his 13,000-word article detailing how the Obama administration killed a nearly decade-long DEA effort to stem a global Hezbollah cocaine-smuggling-and-organized-crime ring to help secure its nuclear deal with Iran. "This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision," former Defense Department analyst David Asher explained in the article. "They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down."
Asher helped establish and oversee the project, codenamed Cassandra, that looked into Hezbollah's wide-range of illicit activities across the globe, including weapons procurement, drug trafficking, and money laundering. Senior Obama officials, according to Asher, ignored the legal and financial instruments that he and others had provided to target a terrorist organization with American blood on its hands and was still plotting against the United States.
In response, a Twitter mob of mid-level bureaucrats and former intelligence officersorchestrated in the usual fashion attacked Asher in tandem with the media echo chamber used to sell the Iran Deal, with former political operatives from the Obama White House supplying the usual talking points to their hatchet-men. Meyer's "on the record sources have undisclosed anti-Iran deal bias," tweeted former Obama speechwriter Tommy Vietor, who has remade himself as a podcast host. Meyer's "entire piece," tweeted Obama lieutenant and former CIA officer Ned Price, "is based on pure speculation by these '1 or 2 sources' w undisclosed anti-Iran deal bias."
The catchphrase, "undisclosed anti-Iran deal bias," is an extended replay version of the catchy slogans Team Obama used to market the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Opponents and critics of the nuclear deal were "warmongers" beholden to "donors" with "agendas" whose concerns were shaped by their loyalties not to America but rather to the Jewish state. Now, the echo chamber insisted, Meyer's sources aren't to be trusted because they were against the Iran deal, or have associated with think tanks that opposed the Iran Deal—which means that they are secret neocon slaves of Israel, of course. Read the rest of this entry »
NYT Only Finds the FBI Texts Newsworthy in that Republicans are 'Seizing' On Them
Posted: December 15, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bias, Democrats, Department of Justice, DOJ, FBI, GOP Pounce Story, Hillary Clinton, media, New York Times, Peter Strzok | Leave a comment
The New York Times has already moved on to the 'Republicans pounce' portion of the news cycle.
Becket Adams writes: Special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is facing a brewing scandal involving hyper-partisan texts written by his former team members, and the New York Times has already moved on to the "Republicans pounce" portion of the news cycle.
Because that's often the modus operandi for these sorts of things.
Peter Strzok, who specializes in Russian counterintelligence, was removed from Mueller's team this July. The decision to take Strzok off the Russia investigation came after the Justice Department's inspector general discovered he had sent and received dozens of anti-Trump texts between August 2015 and 2016 from Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom Strzok was having an affair. Page was also on Mueller's team, but only briefly. She returned to the FBI before the special counsel was made aware of the texts.
There's really no getting around it: The texts are extremely partisan.
"I can not believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president," Page wrote in one note.
Strzok wrote in another note, "God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0."
"And maybe you're meant to stay where you are because you're meant to protect the country from that menace," Page wrote in another text. "I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps." Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] #NetNeutrality Sign Falls Down and Knocks Democratic Congressman Off Stage
Posted: December 15, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: #NetNeutrality, Congress, Democratic Congressman, Democrats, FCC, Global Panic, Net neutrality, propaganda, South Bronx, video | 1 Comment
Bret Stephens: A Century of Progressive Excuses for Communism
Posted: October 28, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Education, History, Politics, Russia, Terrorism | Tags: Authoritarianism, Communism, Cuba, Democrats, Dictatorship, DNC, Fascism, Fascist, Genocide, Great Leap Forward, Havana, Joseph Stalin, Killing Fields, Mao, Marxism, Progressive, Progressivism, Red Famine, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalinist, Totalitarianism, Ukraine | Leave a comment
People gathered to honor Stalin's victims at a ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine, last year. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Communism Through Rose-Colored Glasses.
Bret Stephens writes: "In the spring of 1932 desperate officials, anxious for their jobs and even their lives, aware that a new famine might be on its way, began to collect grain wherever and however they could. Mass confiscations occurred all across the U.S.S.R. In Ukraine they took on an almost fanatical intensity."
I am quoting a few lines from "Red Famine," Anne Applebaum's brilliant new history of the deliberate policy of mass starvation inflicted on Ukraine by Joseph Stalin in the early 1930s. An estimated five million or more people perished in just a few years. Walter Duranty, The Times's correspondent in the Soviet Union, insisted the stories of famine were false. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for reportage the paper later called "completely misleading."
How many readers, I wonder, are familiar with this history of atrocity and denial, except in a vague way? How many know the name of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin's principal henchmen in the famine? What about other chapters large and small in the history of Communist horror, from the deportation of the Crimean Tatars to the depredations of Peru's Shining Path to the Brezhnev-era psychiatric wards that were used to torture and imprison political dissidents?
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Why is it that people who know all about the infamous prison on Robben Island in South Africa have never heard of the prison on Cuba's Isle of Pines? Why is Marxism still taken seriously on college campuses and in the progressive press? Do the same people who
rightly demand the removal of Confederate statues ever feel even a shiver of inner revulsion at hipsters in Lenin or Mao T-shirts?
These aren't original questions. But they're worth asking because so many of today's progressives remain in a permanent and dangerous state of semi-denial about the legacy of Communism a century after its birth in Russia.
No, they are not true-believing Communists. No, they are not unaware of the toll of the Great Leap Forward or the Killing Fields. No, they are not plotting to undermine democracy. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Pelosi Compares Dreamers to Japanese by Suggesting Republicans Will Put Them in Internment Camps
Posted: September 13, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Asia, Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Demagoguery, Democrats, DREAMers, Japan, Japanese Internment, Nancy Pelosi, propaganda | 1 Comment
[VIDEO] White House Policy Advisor Stephen Miller Treats CNN's Jim Acosta to a Humiliating Defeat
Posted: August 2, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Democrats, Emma Lazarus, Grover Cleveland, Immigration, Jim Acosta, Left Wing, media, Media bias, New York City, news, Open Borders, Rich Lowry, Statue of Liberty, Stephen Miller, Tom Cotton, United States, White House press corps | 1 Comment
Stephen Miller TKOs Jim Acosta
Rich Lowry writes: When Donald Trump's policy adviser Stephen Miller stepped to the podium of the White House briefing room on Wednesday to defend a plan for reducing levels of legal immigration, Jim Acosta of CNN was aghast and let everyone know it.
Put aside that Acosta believed it was his role as a reporter to argue one side of a hot-button political issue (this is how journalism works in 2017). The exchange illustrated how advocates of high levels of immigration are often the ones who—despite their self-image as the rational bulwark against runaway populism—rely on an ignorant emotionalism to make their case.
At issue is the bill sponsored by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia to cut legal immigration by half. The legislation would scale back so-called chain migration—immigrants bringing relatives, who bring more relatives in turn—and institute a merit-based system for green cards based on the ability to speak English, educational attainment and job skills.
Offended by the idea of putting a priority on higher-skilled immigrants, Acosta wanted to know how such a policy would be consistent with the Statue of Liberty. When Miller pointed out that Lady Liberty was conceived as a symbol of … liberty and the famous Emma Lazarus poem added later, Acosta accused him of "national park revisionism"—even though Miller was correct.
Stephen Miller is living rent free in Acosta's head. pic.twitter.com/WR2AMEmDGW
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) August 3, 2017
At the dedication of the statue in 1886, President Grover Cleveland declared that the statue's "stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression until Liberty enlightens the world." His soaring oration did not include the admonition that so-called comprehensive immigration reform would henceforth be considered the only acceptable immigration policy for the United States.
[Read the full story here, at POLITICO]
Lazarus' poem was added in a plaque in 1903. The words are not, as Acosta and so many others believe, emblazoned on the statue itself—the plaque is now displayed in an exhibition within the pedestal.
All of this might seem pedantic, but the underlying debate is over the legitimacy of reducing levels of immigration and whether it is appropriate to craft a policy mindful, above anything else, of the national interest. Miller clearly has the best of this argument.
One, making 21st policy in accord with late-19th century poetry makes no sense. We don't ask, say, whether the naval appropriations bill is in keeping with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Building of the Ship" ("Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!")
Two, the cap on refugees in the Cotton-Perdue bill of 50,000 a year is in the ballpark of recent annual refugee numbers. We actually admitted fewer than this in the late-1970s and early-2000s, and the Statue of Liberty still stood … (more)
Source: POLITICO Magazine
During the briefing, Acosta insinuated that the White House wants to allow only immigrants from Great Britain and Australia into the U.S. because they can speak English.
CNN's Jim Acosta claims victory in briefing beef with Stephen Miller: 'He couldn't take that kind of heat'
Josh Siegel reports: CNN's Jim Acosta claimed he had the upper hand in his faceoff with White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller at Wednesday's daily press briefing.
"I think what you saw unfold in the briefing room is that he [Miller] really just couldn't take that kind of heat and exploded before our eyes," Acosta said in an appearance on CNN Wednesday night, hours after the face-off.
Miller spoke to members of the White House press corps about a revised bill from Sens. David Perdue of Georgia and Tom Cotton of Arkansas that would implement a merit-based point system for immigrants applying for legal permanent status. President Trump endorsed the immigration plan during a ceremony at the White House earlier Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Fires IT Staffer AFTER His Arrest
Posted: July 27, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrats, Police Chief Matthew Verderosa | Leave a comment
Wasserman Schultz kept paying tech expert suspected of stealing House computers.
Alex Daugherty and Amy Sherman report: When a computer expert who worked for congressional Democrats was accused of stealing computers and data systems in February, members of Congress cut him loose within days, leaving Imran Awan with no supporters five months later.
Except for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
The Weston Democrat has not explained in detail why she continued to employ Awan until Tuesday when she fired him — after he was arrested on bank-fraud charges at Dulles International Airport in Virginia attempting to board a flight to Pakistan.
"After details of the investigation were reviewed with us, my office was provided no evidence to indicate that laws had been broken, which over time, raised troubling concerns about due process, fair treatment and potential ethnic and religious profiling. Upon learning of his arrest, he was terminated."
— Wasserman Schultz, in a statement
And she has not elaborated on what work Awan did for her after he lost access to the House computer network.
[ALSO SEE – ROGER SIMON: Imran Awan Case Needs Special Counsel 100X More than Russiagate]
She declined to answer questions about Awan in Washington on Wednesday, and her spokesman, David Damron, accompanied her to the House floor while instructing a reporter that Wasserman Schultz would not take questions about her former employee.
Wednesday evening, Wasserman Schultz released a statement:
"After details of the investigation were reviewed with us, my office was provided no evidence to indicate that laws had been broken, which over time, raised troubling concerns about due process, fair treatment and potential ethnic and religious profiling," she said. "Upon learning of his arrest, he was terminated."
Damron told the Miami Herald that Awan was still working for Wasserman Schultz in an advisory role until Monday, and was fired Tuesday. Wasserman Schultz was one of more than two dozen Democrats in Congress who employed Awan, 37, and four other information-technology staffers accused in February of stealing computer systems.
But months after Awan was fired by everyone else, Wasserman Schultz grilled Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa in May over why computer equipment was confiscated from her office as part of the investigation into Awan even though she was not under investigation. Read the rest of this entry »
The Resistance That Cried Wolf
Posted: July 17, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Russia, War Room | Tags: Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Left Wing Activists, Progressives, Radical Left, Ted Kennedy, The Resistance, W. James Antle III, whataboutism | Leave a comment
W. James Antle III writes: It's impossible in some quarters to discuss Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a shady Russian lawyer without being quizzed about similar bad things politicians from the opposing party have done.
What about Ted Kennedy's secret messages to the Soviets while Ronald Reagan was running for re-election? What about the Ukrainian government trying to help Hillary Clinton? And on and on it goes.
This bit of rhetorical judo has become so common in our politics that it even has a name: "whataboutism." Naturally, its origins have been traced back to the Russians, if not even further back. The Economist's Edward Luce described it as an attempt to "match every Soviet crime with a real or imagined Western one."
More recently, the tactic has been deployed by diehard supporters of President Trump, as well as by his more removed "anti-anti-Trumpist" backers.
And you know what? Trump's supporters are not wrong to urge us all to truly examine historical precedents. Because all too often, Trump's fiercest critics declare his every utterance and action unprecedented without bothering to thoughtfully consider the precedents.
Now, when "whataboutism" is used to defend the indefensible, it is obviously wrong. But not every historical comparison can be dismissed as simple "whataboutism." And there are good reasons why "What about … " questions have so frequently been raised under this president. The case against Trump is not simply that he does things that are wrong or bad, but that he is bad in ways that are unprecedented and represent a sharp break from important political norms.
If we are going to chastise Trump for norm violations, shouldn't we first establish how normal or abnormal his actions in a given area really are? If we are going to say he is guilty of doing the unprecedented, shouldn't we look to see if there are in fact any precedents? Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Bloodthirsty Zombie Democrats Turn Up The Rhetoric!
Posted: June 24, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Bernie Sanders, comedy, Congress, Democrats, Free Beacon, Health Care, Leftist Propaganda, news, Obamacare, propaganda, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Larry Sabato on Implications of Ossoff Defeat: 'It's Pretty Depressing' for Democrats (CNN Staff Very Depressed)
Posted: June 21, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: CNN, Democrats, Georgia, Larry Sabato, media, Ossoff, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party
Posted: May 22, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Education, History, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: Democrat, Democratic Party, Democrats, Prager U, video | Leave a comment
Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party.
[VIDEO] The Democratic Agenda: Impeach Donald Trump!
Posted: May 17, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Democrats, Donald Trump, Free Beacon, Impeach, Impeachment, media, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Freaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions
Posted: May 16, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Democrats, media, news, Reason (magazine), Reason.tv, Republicans, video | 1 Comment
Democrats and Republicans are pivoting on issues faster than a bipolar swing dancer on a merry-go-round. Republicans are now big government protectionists. Democrats support free trade and states' rights. It's like the two parties switched bodies! It's almost as if… they were FREAKY-FRIDAYED!
An Important Announcement From The Former President of the United States
Posted: May 9, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, History, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Democrats, FBI, James Comey, journalism, media, Nixonian, Richard Nixon | Leave a comment
The Clinton Factor: New York Times Study Suggests That It Was Not Voter Turnout That Determined Election
Posted: May 4, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, Presidential Election 2016, Voter turnout | 1 Comment
Hillary Clinton has been speaking publicly about her electoral defeat and offering a long list of reasons for the loss except one: Hillary Clinton herself. A new study by the New York Times however concludes that there was not a failure of Democratic turnout, as often suggested by Clinton supporters spinning the election. Rather, voters simply rejected Clinton herself. While Clinton has offered the perfunctory statement that she takes responsibility for the loss, she has been blaming everyone else except herself from the Russians to the FBI Director to self-hating women. Yesterday, she sat through an interview with Christaine Amanpour at the Women for Women event in New York and proclaimed that, if it weren't for FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress, and "[i]f the election had been on October 27, I would be your president." Update: President Donald Trump has fired back at Clinton saying that he…
[VIDEO] CNN Panel Laughs at Democratic Party Disunity, Sanders Refusing to Call Himself a Democrat
Posted: April 20, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, CNN, Democrats, Disunity, Free Beacon, media | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Nancy Pelosi Politicizing Faith at Rally in California
Posted: April 10, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, U.S. News | Tags: California, Democrats, DNC, Free Beacon, Nancy Pelosi, news, Protest, video | 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Chuck Schumer Flip-Flopping Compilation
Posted: April 7, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Chuck Schumer, Daily Caller, Democratic Party, Democrats, media, news, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Krauthammer: On Possible Unmasking, Democrats 'Are Pretending It Is Not an Issue'
Posted: April 3, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Russia | Tags: Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes, Charles Krauthammer, Democrats, Spying, Surveillance, Susan Rice, Unmasking, video | 1 Comment
Charles Krauthammer argued that the Russian investigation now involves multiple issues, and that it is a partisan maneuver to say that one or another is the only one that matters.
Stephen Miller writes:
…As the facts about who surveilled whom during the transition get sorted out, it is useful to remember why Trump's team and his supporters have reason to be suspicious, thanks to a long documented history of Obama using shady surveillance tactics on both political opponents and international allies. Rhodes himself knows this history but that doesn't seem to matter as he once again attempts to make people believe he fell out of the sky and onto Twitter on January 21st, 2017.
To help jog Rhodes' memory, below are all the documented instances of the Obama administration using and in some cases abusing surveillance.
1. Fox News reporter James Rosen
In 2013 the news broke that Eric Holder's Justice Department had spied on James Rosen. Obama's DOJ collected Rosen's telephone records as well as tracked his movements to and from the State Department from where he reported. Rosen was named as a possible co-conspirator in a Justice Department affidavit. Rosen claims that his parents phone line was also swept up in the collection of his records and DOJ records seem to confirm that. Despite the targeting of Rosen, there were no brave calls to boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner.
2. Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA
CIA officers penetrated a network used to share information by Senate Intel committee members, including Sen. Diane Feinstein, the committee's Democrat chair. The bombshell New York Times report went on to disclose:
The C.I.A. officials penetrated the computer network when they came to suspect that the committee's staff had gained unauthorized access to an internal C.I.A. review of the detention program that the spy agency never intended to give to Congress. A C.I.A. lawyer then referred the agency's suspicions to the Justice Department to determine whether the committee staff broke the law when it obtained that document. The inspector general report said that there was no "factual basis" for this referral, which the Justice Department has declined to investigate, because the lawyer had been provided inaccurate information. The report said that the three information technology officers "demonstrated a lack of candor about their activities" during interviews with the inspector general.
The Obama White House defended CIA director John Brennan's actions and response. Imagine that.
3. Prism
In 2013, it was revealed how the Obama administration and NSA were facilitating a secret government mass surveillance program called Prism, because the name Orwell would have been too obvious, I guess. Read the rest of this entry »
Analysis: Filibuster Over Gorsuch is Bad for Democrats
Posted: April 3, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Law & Justice, Think Tank | Tags: Cloture, Democrats, Neil Gorsuch, Nuclear option, SCOTUS, Supreme Court | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON — Debra J. Saunders writes: A favorite truism in Washington these days is: "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it." It tells the cautionary tale of how Republicans who wanted to run Washington got what they wanted and now must govern.
Here's another quote for the swamp to consider: "Be careful what you scorn, you may someday become it."
It has been a favorite pastime of elected Democrats to poke fun at the House Freedom Caucus because the rump is ideologically extreme and frequently self-destructive. Senate Democrats now seem poised to overtake the Freedom Caucus in the race away from moderation and the ability to shoot one's party in the foot. To wit, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is primed to block the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch.
I have told you people this a hundred times; underestimate Mitch McConnell at your own peril.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 3, 2017
Gorsuch is the one decision President Donald Trump made and executed flawlessly. In September 2016, Trump released a list of 21 judges from which he pledged to pick a Supreme Court nominee. Gorsuch, 49, was on the list.
Gorsuch has such solid credentials that the American Bar Association unanimously rated him "well qualified" to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court — its highest rating. In other words, Trump did not pick a flame thrower.
George Washington University law school professor Jonathan Turley, who is no Trump fan, argues that Gorsuch is a smart choice because of the Coloradan's intellect. In USA Today, Turley wrote that he does not expect Gorsuch to change his "deep and well-established jurisprudential views," which are conservative. "However, I expect he will go wherever his conscience takes him regardless of whether it proves a track to the left or the right."
As Gorsuch told the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings, "It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives. A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge."
Confirmed previously
In 2006 the Senate confirmed Gorsuch's appointment to the Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals by unanimous consent. Schumer was in the Senate at the time. So how could Schumer tell the Washington Post on Thursday that it is "virtually impossible" to expect him and a majority of the Senate's 47 other Democrats not to filibuster Gorsuch and deny him a simple up-or-down vote? Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Media, Democrats Praise Gorsuch Confirmation Performance
Posted: March 24, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Humor, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Democrats, Free Beacon, media, Neil Gorsuch, SCOTUS, Supreme Court | Leave a comment
Posted: February 19, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Chuck Schumer, Democrats, Time Magazine | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Gutfeld: The Right is Having Fun Again
Posted: February 19, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Air Supply, Democrats, Fox News, GOP, Greg Gutfeld, media, news, Right Wing, The Greg Gutfeld Show, The Ramones, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] 'I Hurt People for a Reason': Milo Yiannopoulos Spars with Bill Maher
Posted: February 17, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Amy Schumer, Bill Maher, breitbart, Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, Donald Trump, Free speech, Girls (TV series), Halle Berry, Harvard University, Harvey Weinstein, HBO, Jeremy Scahill, Lena Dunham, Liberal, Milo Yiannopoulos, Real Time with Bill Maher, Triggered | Leave a comment
The liberal talk show host and conservative Breitbart editor tried to find common ground during an 11-minute discussion, which made national headlines earlier this week after previously scheduled Real Time guest The Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill dropped out of the show to protest Yiannopoulos' booking.
"The Democrats are the party of Lena Dunham. These people are mental, hideous people, and the more that America sees of Lena Dunham, the fewer votes that the Democratic Party is going to get."
James Hibberd reports: Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos had their controversial showdown on HBO's Real Time on Friday night, though there were fewer sparks than some had perhaps expected.
"I wrote a bad review of the movie. I said she look like a dude, she does. I said she's barely literate, she is."
"And I simply don't accept that the star of a Hollywood blockbuster is sitting in a Hollywood mansion crying over mean words on the internet; get over it. Mean words on the internet don't hurt anyone,"
"The reason [liberals] want to police humor is they can't control it — because the one thing all authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter," Yiannopoulos said.
"Nothing annoys people like the truth. Policing humor for racism and sexism is utterly wrongheaded. Not because normally it's not there, but because that's how we build bridges and not how we break them."
"And also because when people laugh they know it's true," Maher agreed. "… You are so helped by the fact that liberals always take the bait."
"I hurt people for a reason. I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll."
"Nothing annoys people like the truth," Yiannopoulos concurred. "Policing humor for racism and sexism is utterly wrongheaded. Not because normally it's not there, but because that's how we build bridges and not how we break them."
[Read the full story here, at ew.com]
Yet Yiannopoulos made blatant sexist comments during the interview, criticizing Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman as people who "used to be funny before they contracted feminism." Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] 'The Greg Gutfeld Show' Introduces a New 'Sponsor': Victima
Posted: February 12, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Activism, Advertising, Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, drugs, Fox News Channel, Greivance, Identity Politics, Left Wing, Parody, satire, Special Snowflake, The Greg Gutfeld Show, TV Commercial, Twitter, Victim Culture, Victima | Leave a comment
'The Greg Gutfeld Show' introduces a new 'sponsor'
to learn more about Victima: https://t.co/maZUvxlQLc
and return to @GregGutfeldShow at 5pm!
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 12, 2017
Source: The Greg Gutfeld Show [WATCH the video here]
[VIDEO] Two Minutes Show How Much Democrats Love Jeff Sessions
Posted: February 10, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Chris Coons, Congress, Democrats, Free Beacon, Jeff Sessions, media, news, Senate, Supercuts, United States Senate, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Krauthammer: Good for GOP if Warren Leads Democratic Party
Posted: February 8, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, GOP, media, news, Senator Warren, video | 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Dems Once Couldn't Stop Bashing the Tea Party: Here's What They're Saying Today
Posted: February 8, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Democrats, Fox News, Free Beacon, news, Supercuts, Tea Party, video | Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Ted Cruz vs Bernie Sanders Debate the Future of Obamacare
Posted: February 7, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Education, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, CNN, Communism, Debate, Democrats, Free market, GOP, Health Care, Liberty, Marxism, media, Obamacare, Progressivism, Republicans, Rule of Law, Socialism, Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz vs Bernie Sanders Debate, video | 1 Comment


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home Biography Ines Petkovic
Ines Petkovic
Facts of Ines Petkovic
Full Name Ines Petkovic
First Name Ines
Last Name Petkovic
Nationality Swiss
Birth City Martigny
Birth Country Switzerland
Father Name Vladimir Petkovic
Father Profession football manager and former payer
Mother Name Ljiljana Petkovic
Sibilings Lea Petkovic
Date of Birth 1988
Ines Petkovic is the daughter of Vladimir Petkovic, who is the Bosnian-Swiss football manager and also a retired football player who used to play the role of a midfielder.
He is known as the head manager of the Switzerland national team from 2014 to 2021. He has also managed some of the football clubs in Swiss as well as Italian.
Ines was born on 1988 in Martigny.
About Vladimir Petkovic:
Vladimir is a football manager and retired Swiss football player.
He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and led the Switzerland national team from 2014 to 2021.
Vladimir began his football journey in his youth when he was 15 years old.
He joined a football club named FK Sarajevo, and from this club, he started his football journey to his professional career.
He migrated to Switzerland from Yugoslavia to have a good future for him.
He spent his 20 years playing football as a midfielder in Switzerland, Bosnia and Slovenia.
He spent most of his time in Switzerland and also Bellinzona, Young Boys and Sion.
After he retired from playing football, he became the manager of the Italian side Lazio for two years.
He led his team to gain victory in Coppa Italia in 2013. In 2014 he was selected to be the head manager of the Switzerland national team.
He took Swiss to UEFA EURO 2016, which was held in France, and FIFA World Cup 2018, which was held in Russia.
He also led the team in Euro 2020, where Swiss was placed in group A with Italy, Wales and Turkey.
The Swiss had gotten successful since he was chosen for the post of head coach.
Swiss Coach Vladimir Petkovic wasn't interested in the match against Brazil in FIFA World Cup 2018:
Vladimir mentioned that his team must be prepared for the ugly match in World Cup against Brazil and their incredible forward line led by Neymar.
He said that even though Brazil holds the record of Five times winner, they are not here to play a lovely match.
They were there to win it, which Vladimir told the news conference. He said he would try to be more organized and create opportunities to win over Brazil.
Vladimir's family loves traveling:
In 2008, Vladimir worked as a coach in YB in Bern for the first time. His daughter was studying in Zurich.
He was far away from his family, and despite being far away, his wife Ljiljana flew to Turkey over thirty times in one year.
She also visited Rome more often, where Vladimir led Lazio to win the 2013 cup. He also said that they really love traveling.
Ines Petkovic with her sister Lea Petkovic and mother. Source: Instagram
How did Vladimir meet his wife, Ljiljana Petkovic?
Vladimir and his wife, Ljiljana, have been together for a very long time and are always happy and loving.
For more than three decades, they have been together without controversy and scandal. They first met at a disco on 1984 in the summer time.
Ljiljana was studying English in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, at that time, and Vladimir was studying law, and he used to play with Sarajevo.
When Vladimir emigrated to Switzerland permanently, Ljiljana came with him to Switzerland, and at that time, Vladimir was playing for NLB club Chur 97.
They were married on 1987 November 21. Since she came into his life, she has supported him to his success.
Married:
Ines recently got married to the man of her dreams.
Her sister posted the pictures of her wedding on her social media account and captioned the post as InSe - 10.08.2022.
Ines looked absolutely stunning in her bridal attire.
The venue for their big day was near the ocean, and it seemed like they took a boat tour along with their guest.
Ines Petkovic with her sister Lea Petkovic. Source: Instagram
The net worth of Vladimir is estimated to be around $1 million - $5 million, and his source of income is the Swiss football manager.
$1 million - $5 million Swiss football Manager
Ines Petkovic is 34 years old born on 1988 in Martigny.
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Q: Any set of $\mathbb R$ is open iff it is the union of disjoint open intervals I am starting in my studies on topology and I am having really big troubles with this kind of stuff
I have $(\mathbb R, \tau_u)$, and I have to prove that
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If someone could help me with well-structured demostration of this, I would really appreciate it.


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Q: Displaying Array with JOptionPane First, this is a school activity, an activity that i cant solve by my own.
i'm a first year college BSIT student and this my first post.
i'm having trouble in displaying my "initialized array" in JOptionPane, i cant find the right code to display them. hope you get my question.
heres my code..
public static void main(String[] args) {

        String display="";

        String size = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Your Prefered Size Of Your Array");
        int newsize = Integer.parseInt(size);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"You Entered "+newsize+".");

        String array[] = new String[newsize];

        for (int a=0; a<array.length;a++)
        {
            JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Value For Array["+a+"].");
        }

        for (int a=0;a<array.length;a++)
        {
            display = display +array[a];
        }

        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"\n"+array[display]);

    }

}

A:  JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Value For Array["+a+"].");

shoud be
array[a]=JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Value For Array["+a+"].");

and then make string
for (int a=0;a<array.length;a++)
    {
        display+=array[a]+","
    }

after that just print it out :)
for new line display+=array[a]+"\n"

A: you could do that in 1 loop.
For example:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String display="";

    String size = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Your Prefered Size Of Your Array");
    int newsize = Integer.parseInt(size);
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"You Entered "+newsize+".");

    String array[] = new String[newsize];

    for (int a=0; a<array.length;a++)
    {
        array[a] = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Value For Array["+a+"].");
        display = display +array[a] + "\n";
    }

    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,display);

}

}


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I wasn't going to post about this, because I do it so often and it's so simple that I never even think about it. But the Pie suggested it might be a good idea to let you in on the deal.
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I get dehydrated really easily in hot weather and summer in Ottawa is very, very HOT. Hot and long, temperatures often going up as high as 50°C (122°F) on humid days. And when I get dehydrated I tend to faint and that is super embarrassing. Therefore, I drink a TON of water. But water gets so boring after a while, so I dress it up a little and then I can pretend I'm at some fancy spa.
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I have a pretty glass bottle that I keep in the fridge full of water, and it's a simple thing to just add a bit of natural flavouring to it. My go-to refresher is lemon water. I just cut the ends off a lemon, and slice the rest of it small enough to fit in the mouth of the bottle. Then you just leave it for a few hours and BOOM. FLAVOURED WATER.
Another good refreshing option is adding a sprig or two of fresh mint from my mini garden to a handful of fresh raspberries.
For something more subtle, try cutting up half a cucumber and sliding that into the water.
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Danielle Spencer Details Car Accident, Paralysis & Near Suicide
While Dee was causing all kinds of pain and heartache for her brother Raj on "What's Happening!" during its three year run, the actress who played the iconic character spent part of the first season in real physical pain from a horrific car accident that killed her step-father, put her in a coma for three weeks and left her with a broken pelvis, leg and arm.
"I was gone from the show for about six months," says Danielle Spencer, speaking to EURweb exclusively. "They stopped taping the show for about a month and I just healed pretty quickly. Basically I had the summer to heal and I came back for the second season."
The Jersey-born actress said she continued filming "What's Happening!" until the show was cancelled in 1979, then, went on to high school and finished college without any lingering ailments from the accident.
Then in 2003 – 26 years after the Sept. 7, 1977 car crash – she suddenly felt a tingling in her leg.
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Brent Van Moer's close-run attack won't be last at Tour de France
By Simone Giuliani published 30 June 21
'I hope to be at the front again in the next weeks' says Lotto Soudal rider
Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal) escapes from the peloton near the beginning of stage 4 (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
It was never a likely day for victory from the breakaway at the Tour de France, but that didn't stop 23-year-old Lotto Soudal rider Brent Van Moer from trying, and almost succeeding.
The Belgian had already frustrated the sprinters on stage 1 of the Critérium du Dauphiné a month ago so there is little surprise he had the appetite to try again on the similarly hilly terrain of stage 4 of the the Tour de France. Particularly given the rider his team had been built around had been forced out of the Grand Tour with a broken collarbone after a hard crash on the fast run into the line on stage 3.
"After Caleb Ewan was forced to abandon the race, we lost the fastest sprinter in our team. It was rather quiet at the dinner table last night because – with so many sprint opportunities – most of our team was built around Caleb. That is why we had to change tactics and race offensively," Van Moer said in a team statement.
Tour de France: Mark Cavendish takes miraculous stage 4 victory
Ewan abandons Tour de France after sustaining broken collarbone in stage 3 crash
Van Moer has an 'unreal' day at the Dauphiné
True to that objective, Van Moer took off as soon a the rider safety protest go-slow ended, joined by Jean-Luc Périchon (Cofidis) the pair stretched out the gap on the 150 kilometre stage to Fougères. It never got out too far though, with the advantage only allowed to stretch out three minutes as the teams of the sprinters determined to have their day.
"Despite a small success rate today, I still opted for the breakaway," Van Moer said. "Of course, I knew it would be a difficult task to stay ahead of the peloton at the Tour, but I kept fighting and gave it my all, which I always do. And such stages with hilly terrain suit me like a glove. I already proved so at the Dauphiné, Tirreno-Adriatico and Ronde van Limburg."
As the pair headed toward the line, with 15 kilometres to go, the gap was quickly tumbling dropping, down to just 30 seconds as the peloton ramped up the pace, and it looked like it would soon be game over for the duo out front. Van Moer, however, wasn't going to let a potential stage victory at the Tour de France slip away so easily. He decided it was time to leave his breakaway companion of more than 100 kilometres behind and use his time-trial skills to try and make it to the end alone and, for a while there, it looked like it just might work.
Instead of joining the chase to make sure it was a sprint for the victory, which no doubt would have been their focus if Ewan was still in the bunch, his teammates were now working to disrupt the chase. Instead of the gap getting smaller it grew, at least for the first stages of Van Moer's solo foray.
"In the final 15 kilometres of the stage, my teammates told me through the radio that I could win the stage, which gave me a huge boost," said Van Moer. "Unfortunately, to get caught at 100 metres from the line is really hard."
Van Moer watched the prospect of his second career win and a Tour de France stage disappear as the gap eventually narrowed again and he was then swamped by the sprinters as the line approached. It still turned out to be a heroic ending, but one where Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-QuickStep) was the main character. Stage 4 became a tale of a returning victor defiantly resisting a premature end to his stellar career, rather than one of the unrelenting young rider defying the odds and alone managing to hold off the rampaging horde.
Van Moer finished 49th and was unsurprisingly awarded the most combative rider prize. He, however, is now looking to the new chapters ahead where the ending turns in his favour and he takes home the ultimate prize of a stage victory at the Tour de France.
"I hope to be at the front again in the next weeks," said Van Moer. "Although it's a pity I just missed out on the stage win, I have to put things into perspective. I am only 23 years old and hopefully there are still a lot of opportunities to come."
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Марианн-Леон Аарон (Янович) Фульман, (27 марта 1864 (1866), Старе-Место — 18 декабря 1945 года) — священник римско-католической церкви, депутат Государственной думы Российской империи I созыва от Петроковской губернии Царства Польского, польский католический епископ, епархиальный архиерей Люблина с 1918 по 1945 год.

Биография

Окончил гимназию, римско-католическую церковную семинарию и Императорскую Римско-католическую духовную академию в Санкт-Петербурге со степенью магистра богословия. 13 мая 1889 в городе Влоцлавеке принял духовный сан. Настоятель прихода, профессор римско-католической духовной семинарии, редактор богословского журнала «Пастырские Ведомости» в Петрокове. Его перу принадлежат многочисленные богословские сочинения на польском языке. Активно участвовал в деятельности христианских социальных организаций в Царстве Польском. За национальную и священническую деятельность в Влоцлавеке (Влоцславске), Ковале и Петрокове подвергался гонениям со стороны русской администрации. В 1894 году был заключен в тюрьму Павяк и выслан на 5 лет в Нижний Новгород с лишением права преподавания в учебных заведениях, в 1896 году амнистирован, но фактически права преподавания не получил, несмотря на настойчивые просьбы Вроцлавского епископа. В 1907 году настоятель прихода в Ченстохове.

В Государственной Думе
Избран депутатом в Первую Государственную Думу от Петроковской губернии Царства Польского. По одним сведения сторонник партии «Народной свободы», по другим более точным — член польской национально-демократической партии. Характеризуется, как большой сторонник христианской демократии по программе папы Льва XIII и папы Пия Х. Входил также в состав Польского коло.

В независимой Польше

24 сентября 1918 он был назначен епархиальным архиереем в Люблине. Был рукоположен в епископы 17 ноября 1918 в Варшаве. Он был одним из основателей и первым Великим канцлером Католического университета Люблина. В 1928 году он провёл первый синод епархии. 10 ноября 1938 «за выдающиеся достижения в области социальной работы» был награждён орденом Возрождения Польши.

При нацистской оккупации

В 1939 году арестован немецкими оккупационными властями, заключён в тюрьму в Люблинском замке. Приговорён к смертной казни и доставлен в концлагерь Заксенхаузен (1939—1940) под Ораниенбургом. После освобождения из Заксенхаузена отправлен в Новы-Сонч (1940—1945).

Память
Его именем названа одна из улиц в Люблине (в районе Wrotków).

Ссылки

 Piotr Nitecki, Biskupi Kościoła w Polsce w latach 965—1999, Warszawa 2000, ISBN 83-211-1311-7.
 Государственная Дума первого призыва. Портреты, краткие биографии и характеристики депутатов. — Москва: «Возрождение», 1906.
 Nota biograficzna Mariana Leona Fulmana na stronie Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego

Примечания

Деятели католицизма

Персоналии по алфавиту
Родившиеся в 1864 году
Умершие в 1945 году
Выпускники Императорской Римско-католической духовной академии
Члены Польского коло
Члены Государственной думы Российской империи I созыва

Заключённые концлагеря Заксенхаузен
Члены Национально-демократической партии Польши

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20th-ranked Cats visit No 12 Florida – UK Athletics
9 September 2022 by admin
The University of Kentucky's No. 20/20 football program began one of the most anticipated seasons in school history last Saturday, just one year away from recording its second 10-year campaign. wins over the past four seasons (2018, 2021).
Mark Stoops, who tied Paul "Bear" Bryant as the winningest head coach in program history with a win over Miami, Ohio in the season opener, will be looking to break that tie with the Kentucky's second straight win over Florida this weekend. The game, which will mark the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams, kicks off Saturday, September 10 at 7 p.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. on ESPN with Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy and Katie George On call.
The Wildcats will be counting on returning quarterback Will Levis to live up to the praise he received in the preseason. The Cats will also rely on experienced defensemen DeAndre Square, JJ Weaver, Jordan Wright and Jacquez Jones.
Cat Scratches: Stoops and Cats Adjusting, Preparing for Florida
Kentucky opened its 2022 season with a 37-13 win over Miami, Ohio at Kroger Field on Saturday. As with any opening game, there were good and bad, according to British head coach Mark Stoops.
"The first game, the first week, after the game, it's never as bad as you think, it's never as good," Stoops said.
Stoops cited his offensive line play as an area the staff needed to address.
"There are definitely some things that we all felt coming out of the game that need to be looked at, need to be addressed and we need to improve," Stoops said. "And that's being physical, being able to run the football and being able to protect the quarterback."
However, with past experience as a guide, Stoops believes the Cats will make the necessary adjustments…Read More
Inside Series with Florida
• Kentucky trails the historic series against Florida, 53-19, including an 8-31 mark at Florida State (UK won five games in Gainesville, two games in Jacksonville and one game in Tampa).
• The two teams have shared the last four meetings, each winning once on the road.
• Kentucky beat Florida 20-13 at Lexington last season, with linebacker Jacquez Jones making the game-saving play in the dying seconds. Earlier in the game, freshman Trevin Wallace turned things around with a blocked return to the field for a touchdown.
• UK last won in The Swamp in 2018, ending a 31-year drought against UF. Also, the Cats hadn't won in Gainesville since 1979.
• Six of the last eight meetings have seen the outcome uncertain until the fourth quarter
• Biggest victory for Great Britain: 52 (52-0 in 1917)
• Biggest victory in Florida: 66 (73-7 in 1996)
• Games decided by eight points or less: Florida leads 16-8
• Britain head coach Mark Stoops is 2-7 against Florida during his tenure
Last meeting against Florida
• Kentucky beat No. 10 Florida 20-13 at Kroger Field.
• Great Britain overcame a 10-7 half-time deficit and scored the game-winning touchdown when rookie Trevin Wallace returned a blocked basket 76 yards out for a score.
• Linebacker Jacquez Jones made a pass into the end zone in the final seconds to seal the victory.
• Running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. rushed for 99 yards and one score and linebacker DeAndre Square had 13 tackles.
10 seasons won in the last four years by Kentucky
School record of four consecutive bowl victories
Direct field goals made by British kicker Matt Ruffolo
Wins since the start of 2018, ranking 12th among Power Five programs
UK wins by Mark Stoops, tied with Paul "Bear" Bryant for most in school history
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