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EARLY EDITION: Five Quick News Stories For Your Water Cooler Chat (Wed. Feb 15)

Today's Stories: Tiger Woods; Racist grants; Russian Warplanes; Election announcements; Michigan Shooter

1. Tiger Woods making a comeback bid

Tiger Woods has his eye on yet another Masters title. He will take the first steps toward that goal by playing at Riveria. The event has a cutoff and he will not be using a cart.

This is a huge step forward for someone who suffered massive injuries when he crashed his SUV in Feb 2021. The damage he suffered to his lower body left people speculating that he might have to hang up his cleats.

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Woods has shown us he is still a competitor. He isn’t ready to throw in the towel just yet.

2. Blue Cross Blue Shield has race-specific grant exclusions

If you have a company that will help give access to healthy food, you might be eligible for a grant. But you will have to check the right identity boxes to qualify.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering up to 10 groups $300k over the next three years. But there’s a catch.

They want to see your staff demographics, first. And if your CEO is white? Don’t even bother applying. The grant isn’t even about improving nutrition … it’s about activism. (Webinar link below)

In the words of the presenter: “…so this investment is a step forward in our journey of doing different and becoming a more Equitable Grant maker…”

3. Russian warplanes testing boundaries

The Biden administration is downplaying an incident in which the US military interdicted four Russian military aircraft near the Alaska border on Monday.

The Pentagon dismissed it as ‘routine’ activity, and emphasized that there is no connection to the recent excitement about the unnamed objects that have been shot from the sky. The Daily Mail is not characterizing it as ‘routine’:

Yesterday, Putin sent two nuclear-capable bombers over the Bering Sea, which separates Russia from Alaska, in a show of strength to the West.
Such moves were common during the Cold War, but it is the first time the Russia Federation has taken such a measure.
–DailyMail

This comes on the same day that Dutch fighters had to respond to Russians encroaching on Polish airspace, where Russians sent IL-20M Coot-A reconnaissance and signals plane and two SU-27 Flanker fighter planes. These planes ‘posed a danger’ by ‘ignoring international safety rules’.

4. Nikki Haley in, DiFi out of the never-ending election carousel

Nikki Haley made it official. In one of the worst-kept secrets of the Primaries so far, the former Governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador has officially announced she will be running for the Republican nomination as President. Bolton, who is also running has tried to downplay this as little more than making her pitch to be Veep.

At the other end of a political career arc, Dianne Feinstein, whose cognitive ability to perform her Senate functions has been very much in question of late, has made it official. The 89yo (and oldest serving) Senator will not be seeking another six-year term as Senator of California.

Schiff has already indicated his desire to lay hold of that seat. But others will surely fight him for it.

5. Michigan State shooter update

While elected officials like Michigan Rep. Ranjeev Puri tweet out ‘[expletive] your thoughts and prayers’ written on official state letterhead, while demanding more gun control, we’ve since learned that it was soft-on-crime politicians who enabled this killer in the first place.

Ingham County district attorney Carol Siemon (D.). did not enforce the full weight of the law when she found that Anthony McRae had committed a gun crime. The Soros-backed DA let McRae plead to a misdemeanor offense, serving a year of probation instead of up to five years in prison for a felony. The charge was in 2019. If McRae were in a prison cell, the people he killed would still be alive today.

Siemon made it her office’s official policy in August 2021 to drop mandatory prison sentences for felony firearms charges. She said the sentencing enhancement led to “dramatic racial inequity” and was “not in any way linked to the goal that we share of keeping the public safe.” –Free Beacon

And there is at least one report of police contacting his house before the attack happened.

Maybe politicians rushing ahead with ‘expletive your prayers’ pronouncements before we actually know any relevant facts is putting the blame in the wrong place. Not to mention revealing something rather unpleasant about that elected official’s biases.

Sources:
The Blue Cross Blue shield’s Webinar in which the grant was discussed

Free Beacon

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One Comment

  1. “Ranjeev” is going to be awfully busy dispensing those sexual favors on the 100+ MILLION gun owners who did nothing wrong while one nut case (who should have been in prison) perpetrated an atrocity.

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