From the Trenches World Report

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

The transgender “interim guidance” rules set by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis block additional soldiers from using pro-transgender policies set by former President Barack Obama, but do not repudiate the revolutionary ideological claim that men and women can change their legal sex by adopting an opposite-sex “gender identity.”

The memo also allows an open-ended commitment to cosmetic “sex reassignment” surgeries. It announces that the DOD will continue paying for soldiers to undergo these surgeries up until March 22, 2018, and will allow exceptions after that cutoff date “to protect the health of an individual who has already begun a course of treatment to reassign his or her sex.”   Continue reading “Pentagon Will Pay for Sex Change Surgeries Through Early 2018 — And Is Open to Exceptions After Cutoff Date”

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California filed a lawsuit on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s plan to construct a wall along the border with Mexico, adding to the obstacles facing one of the Republican president’s key campaign promises.

President Donald Trump has insisted Mexico would pay for building the wall, which experts said could cost about $22 billion and take more than three years to complete.

With Mexico refusing to pay, Trump has said since taking office in January that the wall will initially need U.S. funding but that he will find a way to make Mexico ultimately pay for it.   Continue reading “California sues Trump administration over border wall”

Reuters

A deaf man holding a metal pipe was fatally shot by Oklahoma City police who yelled for him to drop his weapon and get on the ground but did not know he could not hear, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

An investigation into a hit-and-run accident on Tuesday night led officers to a residence where Magdiel Sanchez, 35, was on the porch, Oklahoma City police spokesman Captain Bo Mathews said during a news conference.   Continue reading “Oklahoma City police fatally shoot deaf man who did not respond to commands”

Revisionist History – by Michael Hoffman

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has donated $1 million to the “Senate Leadership Fund,” a Republican super PAC backed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), dedicated to defeating Christian Judge Roy Moore, who is running for the U.S. Senate in a Republican primary contest in Alabama.

Paul Singer is a major donor to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund.   Continue reading “Republicans Make Common Cause with a Billionaire Homosexual Rights Activist to Defeat Roy Moore”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

Alternative media social network Gab.ai, whose logo is a frog often used by the “alt right,” faces domain seizure for failing to remove content that vilifies “race, religion or ethnic origin.” Their registrar further implied that the site promotes hate and discrimination.

Gab’s domain registrar, Asia Registry, has given the network 5 days to transfer its domain or it will be seized according to a notice sent to the company, Andrew Torbha Gab’s CEO tweeted out.   Continue reading “Alternative Social Network Gab Faces Domain Seizure For Violating “Anti-Discrimination Laws””

Press Herald – by Randy Billings

Maine’s largest city will no longer celebrate Columbus Day as a municipal holiday.

The Portland City Council voted unanimously Monday to designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The vote came after nearly an hour of public comment.

Portland became the latest municipality in Maine to recognize indigenous people instead of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who arrived in the New World on Oct. 12, 1492. Belfast was the first to make the switch in 2015, Bangor did so last month and Orono followed suit last week. Later Monday night, the Brunswick Town Council voted 8-1 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.   Continue reading “Portland designates 2nd Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

Fun Stuff People Send Me

The ones in Coney Island and Rockaway Park back in the 20’s thru to the 50’s ran on electric .

Had a pole on the back going to a metal electrical charged overhead plate.

Remember driving the bumper cars at amusement parks or a fair, don’t you? They were so much fun…..   Continue reading “Where Do Old Bumper Cars Go?”

RT

A federal court denied convicted Charleston shooter Dylann Roof’s request to replace his two defense lawyers, who are Jewish and Indian. Roof called the lawyers appealing against his death sentence his “political and biological enemies.”

Roof, 23, killed nine and wounded three black parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015. He told police he wanted to start a “race war.” He was found guilty in December 2016 and subsequently sentenced to death in a federal hate crimes trial.   Continue reading “Court denies Charleston shooter’s request to fire his Jewish & Indian lawyers”

Mail.com

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nations on Wednesday began signing the first treaty to ban nuclear weapons, a pact backed by over 100 countries but spurned by those with nuclear arms. The U.N. treaty office said 51 countries are expected to attach their names on the opening day for signatures. Brazilian President Michel Temer was first to sign.

The treaty requires all countries that eventually ratify it not to develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons “under any circumstances. Wednesday, the opening day for signatures. Brazilian President Michel Temer was first to sign.   Continue reading “Nations start signing nuke ban treaty opposed by big powers”

Mail.com

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 23-year-old white man was arrested and accused of killing two black men and shooting up a black family’s home in a string of attacks last week that police say may have been racially motivated.

A law enforcement official said Tuesday that authorities found a handwritten copy of an Adolf Hitler speech at Kenneth James Gleason’s home and investigators said surveillance footage and DNA on a shell casing link him to the crimes.   Continue reading “White man faces charges in shooting deaths of 2 black men”

Mail.com

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — One of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit Puerto Rico pummeled the island Wednesday, tearing off roofs and doors, toppling cell towers and unleashing heavy flooding in an onslaught that could deepen the U.S. territory’s financial crisis.

Maria, which left at least nine people dead in its wake across the Caribbean, blew ashore in the morning in the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 kph).   Continue reading “Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico, heavy flooding reported”