Target CEO Brian Cornell responded on Wednesday to the backlash the retailer has received in response to its new transgender bathroom policy.
Over 1.2 million people, to date, have signed a petition pledging to boycott until the policy is changed. Since Target’s policy was announced April 19, the company’s stock has dropped approximately 10 percent, or $4.5 billion in market value.
“I certainly recognize that stance we took, which by the way is similar to many of our retail peers, has received quite a bit of feedback. And as a company, we’re constantly listening. So we listened to our guests. We listened to our team members,” Cornell told CNBC’s Squawk Box.
While the CEO stood by his company’s choice, he announced an action the store will take in an effort to address the safety concerns raised by the sponsor of the petition, the American Family Association, and others.
While the CEO stood by his company’s choice, he announced an action the store will take in an effort to address the safety concerns raised by the sponsor of the petition, the American Family Association, and others.
Target has approximately 1,700 locations.
What Cornell did not say is that male and female restrooms would go back to being exclusively for that biological gender. Target’s solution therefore is that if a customer is uncomfortable with potentially having a person of a different sex in the restroom, choose the family restoom.
Given family restrooms only accommodate one customer at a time, that may create demand problems.
As reported by Western Journalism, the AFA was to meet with Target executives and has offered that if the retailer wants to address its safety concerns, a solution would be to provide unisex bathrooms (presumably the family restroom would fit that bill), in addition to the standard male and female ones. Transgender people (who make up less than half of one percent of the population) would then have that option, if they are not comfortable using the restroom that corresponds to their biological gender.
Cornell summed up his company’s view concerning the controversy. “So, we took a stance, and we’re going to continue to embrace our belief in diversity and inclusion to our company, but we’re also going to make sure our focus on safety is unwavering,” he said.
However, that “unwavering” commitment to safety will not include changing its bathroom policy. (For more from the author of “Target CEO Stands by Transgender Bathroom Decision, Offers ‘Option’ to Customers” please click HERE)
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Some might say a rather disturbing moment occurred Wednesday during a Hillary Clinton rally at Camden County College in New Jersey.
Before taking the podium, the woman introducing the Democratic presidential candidate attempted to rally the crowd by reciting part of the Pledge of Allegiance. However, it’s the part she left out, and Clinton’s reaction to it, that is turning heads.
“Only Hillary can bring us together as one nation,” the woman began, before emitting a loud guttural noise to avoid saying the words “under God.”
Continuing right along, she finished the line from the Pledge, saying, “Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
As the crowd erupted in cheers, Clinton began laughing.
Some might question what was so funny about the willful omission of God during a presidential campaign rally.
This is also not the first time Democrats have had such an aversion to God or the concept of our country being under divine authority.
After Democrats stripped any mention of the word “God” from their charter, a vote was raised at the 2012 Democratic Convention to reinclude the word.
After the vote passed (although some might question the dubious method by which it was approved), the Democrats in attendance began booing.
As the Associated Press reported at the time:
“The party reinstated language from the 2008 platform that said ‘we need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.’” (For more from the author of “Watch: Clinton’s Reaction After ‘Under God’ Omitted From Campaign Introduction” please click HERE)
Renowned author and psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, in his book “People of the Lie,” describes evil personalities as those distinguished by:
(a) consistent destructive, scapegoating behavior, which my often be quite subtle. (b) Excessive, albeit usually covert, intolerance to criticism and other forms of narcissistic injury. (c) Pronounced concern with a public image and self-image of respectability, contributing to a stability of life-style but also to pretentiousness and denial of hateful feelings or vengeful motives. (d) Intellectual deviousness, with an increased likelihood of a mild schizophrenic like disturbance of thinking at times of stress.
Peck also makes the point that a sign of evil personalities is not dishonesty. We all have moments where we choose to be dishonest, but serial dishonesty is a different thing.
This weekend, while reading coverage of the now infamous Ben Rhodes interview with the New York Times, I was reminded of Peck’s book. Is this really where we are right now? Have we lost so much of our national innocence that Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications for President Obama, willingly grants an interview to a major American newspaper and proudly declares, that they manipulated the American public to sell the Iran nuclear deal?
Compounding this gross display of deception and hubris, Rhodes said of the press, “The average reporter we talk to is 27-years-old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing…” Thus, he appeared to blame media ignorance for his deception.
How many times are we going to be lied to by the Obama administration, and the president himself, before we stop pussyfooting around and call them what they are: liars? I fully understand that name-calling and ad-hominem attacks are gauche in the DC-insider political circles. But this is not name-calling for name-calling sake, or unnecessary ad-hominem; it’s simply the truth.
How else would one refer to a president and an administration that says things to the American people, recorded on tape for all of us to review, which turn out later to be patently false? Why the need to be delicate with a president who has never shown any such feelings for his political opposition? He is a liar and many in his administration are too. There, I said it, and you should too, because we will never be able to repair the dramatic loss in confidence in government under the Obama administration until we recognize that openly lying to and serially deceiving the American people is evil and unacceptable in a civil society.
And for our liberal friends, desperate to defend this failed presidential administration, who believe that the Ben Rhodes interview was an anomaly, I ask you to carefully remove your ideological blinders for a moment and consider the facts. Regardless of your position on immigration, Obamacare, or the Iran deal, it’s now painfully obvious that the Obama administration lied—yes, lied—about all three.
President Obama told us about immigration policy, “And I cannot ignore those laws any more than I could ignore … any of the other laws that are on the books.” And then President Obama turned around and ignored immigration law by implementing executive immigration amnesty through DACA and DAPA.
President Obama told us repeatedly about Obamacare, “If you like your healthcare plan, you will keep your plan.” He then signed the Obamacare legislation which cost millions of Americans the healthcare plans they were promised they could keep.
Some liberals may say in response, “It’s no big deal, most politicians lie.” Yes, you are correct. But does that mean that they have to slap us all in the face by openly celebrating it in the New York Times? And does it mean that they should be given a free pass for lying repeatedly?
Conservatives and libertarians prefer a smaller, leaner, and more efficient government precisely because of the tendency for politicians of all stripes to lie. A small government enables the lies of politicians to have the smallest possible impact on our lives and enables us to track their lies easily. A growing government monolith like the one we are living with now enables a sprawling government to hide its old lies under a bed of new lies and lie about the lies by calling their political opposition liars. Sound familiar?
Lying about major policy initiatives that will deeply impact the lives of nearly every American citizen is wrong. It is evil and we shouldn’t dance around that word anymore. I’m tired of having to dance around language to avoid telling the truth about Barack Obama while he compares Republicans to Iranian terrorists. Now go back and read Peck’s definition of an evil personality and see if you come to the same conclusions I have about this administration. (For more from the author of “Hey Obama, We’ve Lost Our Patience With Your Lying Administration” please click HERE)
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Well, President Obama has just returned from an overseas visit, trying to convince Britain and Germany to sign his trade deal and generally butting into European politics in a way many had not expected when President Peace Prize descended from heaven to give the world the new, improved, “Smart Diplomacy.”
The latest international disaster occurred in Great Britain, when the President gave a speech urging the UK to remain in the European Union. Despite warnings from many quarters that such intrusion in the idea of the Brexit – the British Exit – would be less than appreciated, President Stupid went and did it anyway, prompting this reporter to ask the following:
BBC Reporter: Is this any of your business?
That’s from the left, left, left wing BBC, of all people.
London Mayor Boris Johnson called the President’s remarks “ridiculous” and “weird.” Queen Elizabeth apparently asked him not to make the pro-EU speech that he then went on to make, with President Golf Cart telling Britain that if it left the EU it would move “to the back of the Queue” as far as America was concerned.
Well, the important things got done, anyway.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all President Smart Diplomacy had done during his administration was destroy the special relationship between the United States and our best friend in the world, a catastrophe that began during his first days in office when he shipped the British gift of a bust of Winston Churchill back before he had unpacked his bags?
Yes, but that would be simply as Disaster. But President Catastrophe has damaged relations with ALL of our European partners who have said quietly, then not so quietly, that they were astounded at his arrogance and naiveté.
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Russia gets more aggressive with us every day: they flew attack jets within 25 feet of a US Navy vessel and awaited the STRONGLY WORDED LETTER in reply.
As a matter of fact, when we were first introduced to the miracle of smart diplomacy, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the Russian Foreign Minister with a gag red button for him to push… a button marked “RESET” but which was mistranslated. When President Failure’s US State Department, on worldwide television, debuted the new Smart Diplomacy, they had one Russian word to translate correctly and they got that one word wrong.
Meanwhile, China is building man-made islands in the South China Sea and warning US and Allied Warships away from their new “territory.”
In Libya, Mummar Khaddafi — who turned over his nuclear and chemical weapons program the day after US Forces pulled Saddam Hussein from his hiding place — was overthrown and Libya became such a chaotic bloodbath that US forces found themselves aiding Al Qaeda on the battlefield. After months of begging for additional security, Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died as Obama and Hillary Clinton watched on TV, ordering the rescue attempt to stand down and then both of them lied to the American people, telling them the Benghazi attack on 9/11 was all the result of a YouTube video.
President Failure backed the overthrow of Pro-American Hosni Mubarak in Eqypt, handing the country to the Muslim Brotherhood. He then stumbled backing over his own Red Line in Syria, allowing the Russians to come to his rescue and, incidentally, achieving major player status in the Middle East overnight, after decades of effective, Non-Smart Diplomacy sidelining.
President Failure could not – or would not – conclude a simple Status of Forces agreement in Iraq, so American troops walked away – they were actually ordered to walk away – from a hard-won victory and allowed the last vestiges of the ravaged and defeated AQI – Al Qaeda in Iraq – to recover enough in the absence of American strength to rename itself ISIS. And now that we have created the Iraq War defeat that President Failure and his Treason Party had promised the American people, we are quietly sending more troops BACK to Iraq. And Syria. And Libya. And Afghanistan… all to try to make up the ground President Failure has not just lost but thrown away.
And of all the things Barack Obama did to damage this country, it’s the one thing he didn’t do that is most heartbreaking: In 2009, the people of Iran rose up against the murderers and fanatics, demanding freedom and democracy. The mullahs teetered on the brink for months. A mere word from the President of the United States would have encouraged them the way President Reagan encouraged Eastern Europe to throw off their communist tyrants. It was the only time during eight catastrophic years that President Obama didn’t have a single thing to say.
So now the sanctions on Iran are lifted. Billions of dollars of funds have been freed for more massacres, and the Iranians have cheated on President Gullible’s treaty before the ink was dry. President Catastrophe has called the Israeli Prime Minister “Chickenshit,” while his and his former secretary of state – currently his likely successor – closest advisors are Iranian. So there’s nothing to deter these Iranian fanatics nuclear ambitions now other than the speed of their centrifuges.
And barking-mad North Korea is reported to have developed a hydrogen bomb and has just launched a ballistic missile from a submarine.
This is Obama and his “Smart Diplomacy,” the Top Secret details of which have been leaked to whomever is curious as the result of the criminal arrogance of Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and the Treason Party’s Presidential nominee, who cut and pasted Top Secret and above info onto a server in a bathroom in New York in order to escape Freedom of Information Act requests.
We are going to pay for this. And so are our kids. And so will their kids. (For more from the author of “President Death” please click HERE)
The average immigrant household draws more than $6,000 from the welfare system in a year, costing U.S. taxpayers 41 percent more than people born in the country, a new study finds.
Immigrants with low education levels and higher numbers of children tend to use up the most benefits, according to the analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which found immigrant families consume $6,234 a year on average. The benefits come in the form of cash payments, food, Medicaid and housing.
Illegal immigrant households are included in the figure, since some can access the system through their U.S.-born children. Although illegal immigrants are barred from accessing welfare payments, CIS determined the households still cost the system more than $5,600 in a year on average.
The study follows CIS reports last year that 51 percent of households led by immigrants use at least one welfare program, and legal immigrants account for 75 percent of all immigrant welfare use. Many immigrants hold jobs, but still qualify for welfare because they tend to make less money and have more children.
“If we continue to permit large numbers of less-educated people to move here from abroad, we have to accept that there will be huge and ongoing costs to taxpayers,” CIS executive director Mark Krikorian said in a statement announcing the study. (Read more from “Here’s How Much Welfare the Average Immigrant Family Uses Each Year” HERE)
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“We’re heading toward totalitarianism,” economist Walter Williams tells The Daily Signal in an interview at The Heritage Foundation’s annual Resource Bank meeting. The famed George Mason University professor says the government is gradually gaining more control over the lives of the American people. What can be done about it? Williams explains why it’s hard to change course, especially in regards to young people who embrace socialist ideas.
(For more from the author of “An Economist Explains Why America Is Moving Toward Totalitarianism” please click HERE)
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has had a wild past few days. Reid told a fellow Democrat he wants him to lose, forgot how many grandchildren he has, and told Sen. Rand Paul on the Senate floor he can’t imagine how his “good father” feels about Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, Reid couldn’t stay on message and split with Sen. Chuck Schumer and other senior Democrats and said that Hillary Clinton if elected should re-nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. That same day while speaking in the senate, he broke protocol and directly addressed the presiding officer, who at the time was Sen. Paul.
“Mr. President I’m sorry to direct attention to the presiding officer but I can’t imagine how the presiding officer must feel with Donald Trump being the leader of the Republican Party. I can’t imagine. I can’t imagine what your good father thinks of Donald Trump leading the Republican Party,” Reid said.
He added, “But I can imagine and I have a number of times.” Rand Paul has said he will support Trump while his father Ron has come out against the billionaire businessman . . .
The following day, Thursday, Reid let everyone have it. “Since the Republican leader is all in for Donald Trump, you can only assume he approves Trump’s calling immigrants rapists and murderers,” he said. He added that McConnell agrees, “with Trump’s view that women are dogs and pigs. You can only assume that he’s not repulsed by his behavior toward women.” (Read more from “What’s Been Going on With Harry Reid the Past Couple Days?” HERE)
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he was not interested in serving as a justice on the Supreme Court Friday, telling a radio host that he had opportunities in the past “to go to the bench,” but that it was “not a desire of my heart.”
The comments came during an interview with WBAP-AM host Chris Salcedo.
“Everybody mentions your name, a lot of people do, and the Supreme Court,” Salcedo told Cruz. ”Frankly, all the times I’ve interviewed you, I’ve never asked if you have any aspirations or felt called if asked to serve on the Supreme Court.”
The host asked, “I mean, I know you have the sharp intelligence to handle the job. But is it even something you even consider?”
“You know, Chris, I’ll tell you. That is not a desire of my heart,” Cruz replied. (Read more from “Radio Host Asks Cruz If He’d ‘Consider’ Serving on Supreme Court — and Gets This Answer Back” HERE)
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President Obama’s Twitter account, which is run by his “Organizing for Action” staff, follows 636,000 accounts. Many of them you might expect: Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry. Even Mariah Carey and Snoop Dogg don’t really raise an eyebrow. But several accounts on the presidential follow list fit a different theme: Asa Akira, a porn star who has 653,000 followers and, in her Twitter bio, states “I have an award-winning a******.” Joanna Angel (390,000 followers), who describes herself as a “multiple award winning punk porno princess;” Penthouse Pet Of The Year Nikki Benz (808,000 followers); and Ashley Steel (138,000 followers), who writes that she is a “Porn Star, Doggy mama, Happiness Junkie, XXX Model, Buddhist, & Total nerd” . . .
Neither the Organizing for Action campaign nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Joe Rospars, Obama’s principal digital strategist for both presidential campaigns, said that he was not available to comment.
The most likely culprit is a piece of Twitter etiquette known as the “follow back.” Some consider it polite to follow your followers, and until recently, only Twitter accounts that followed each other could communicate through direct messages, which added a practical component to the tradition. Twitter once had an “auto-follow” feature that handled this process on behalf of users by automatically following any new followers. Twitter removed that auto-follow feature from its own site in 2009, but the capability stuck around in its API until 2013, allowing many third-party tools to set accounts to “auto-follow” regardless . . .
Twitter follow lists are technically public, but within the Twitter interface, followers can only be viewed by scrolling through every account: quite a task when you are following several hundred thousand people. “I would assume [someone in Obama’s position] doesn’t even know that they’re following those accounts,” says Stephanie Abrams Cartin, the founder and CEO of a New York City-based social media PR agency called Socialfly. Though social media audience management tools that make it easy to pinpoint an account’s following habits—including SocialRank, Little Bird, and Crowdfire—weren’t around when Twitter was getting started, they can reveal mistakes made in those early days of auto-follow that might have otherwise been forgotten. “There are smart things to automate like reporting and analytics—but follows, likes, tweets —smart social media managers and brands stay away from that; just too much that can go wrong,”says SocialRank CEO and Founder Alex Taub. (Read more from “Why Does President Obama’s Twitter Account Follow Porn Stars?” HERE)
(Editor’s note: the original publisher of this article, RT News, is funded by the Russian government) Russia is being forced to look for ways to neutralize threats to its national security due to deployment of the NATO anti-missile shield in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the alliance launched a missile defense site in Romania.
“Now, after the deployment of those anti-missile system elements, we’ll be forced to think about neutralizing developing threats to Russia’s security,” Putin said.
The US missile shield in Europe is a clear violation of Russian-American arms treaties, Putin said at a meeting with Russian military officials, adding that the anti-missile facilities can be easily repurposed for firing short and midrange missiles.
The US anti-missile shield in Europe is yet another step in increasing international tensions and launching a new arms race, he stressed.
“We’re not going to be dragged into this race. We’ll go our own way. We’ll work very accurately without exceeding the plans to finance the re-equipment of our Army and Navy, which have already been laid out for the next several years,” Putin said. (Read more from “Putin: Russia Will Consider Tackling NATO Missile Defense Threat” HERE)
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