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Meow: Murkowski attacks Sen. JD Vance for his comments about Democrat Party’s childless cat-lady voting bloc

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Meow: Murkowski attacks Sen. JD Vance for his comments about Democrat Party’s childless cat-lady voting bloc

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was featured in POLITICO, where she said that Sen. JD Vance’s comments about miserable Democrat “childless cat ladies” were “offensive.”

Murkowski has said a number of offensive things about Donald Trump in the past and is on the record saying she will “absolutely” not support him for president. Of his remarks about securing the border, she said, “This is more hateful, harmful rhetoric from Donald Trump that is poisoning our country,” last year. She voted to convict the former president in 2021 after his second impeachment.

Now, she’s hitting his running mate, a fellow Senate member who is also a member of the Republican Party. “To be so derogatory in this way is offensive to me as a woman,” she said.

“If the Republican Party is trying to improve its image with women, I don’t think that this is working,” Murkowski was quoted as saying to POLITICO, calling Vance’s comments unfortunate, unnecessary, and “offensive” to many women.

Murkowski has made no remarks about Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her plans to use an executive order to enact her gun control agenda, or her socialist vision for America. Murkowski continues to save her venom for Republicans.

It was in 2021, when Sen. Vance made remarks about the nastiness of the Democratic Party and how it was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

The Democrats — and Murkowski — have pounced on those remarks, hoping that the country will find them offensive. It gives Trump opponents a way to drive a wedge in the woman vote.

But evidently Vance is not all that wrong. According to City Journal, the 17 states with the highest general fertility rates are all designated by Cook Political Report as Republican, or GOP-leaning, including such Republican strongholds as North Dakota, Nebraska, Louisiana, Utah, and Texas.

“By contrast, the bottom six states—and nine of the ten states with the lowest fertility rates—are all either Democratic or Democratic-leaning. (Nevada, which Cook deems marginally Republican, is the one exception, with the tenth-lowest birthrate.) Others near the bottom include Rhode Island, Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington, and California. Only two Democratic states have birthrates above the national average, compared with 20 Republican states with above-average fertility,” the publication reported recently.

As of 2022, 44.5% of U.S. households own dogs and 29% of households own cats, according to Forbes. 

Also reported by POLITICO today, the number of U.S. births decreased 3% from 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control, bringing the rate down to 1.6 births per woman, far below what would be needed to keep the country’s population from collapsing. It may be all the childless Democrat cat ladies are doing their part to decarbonize the planet.

It’s unclear why so many Democrat-voting single, childless women have cats. It’s also unclear why Murkowski is working to alienate Alaska from the possible Trump Administration.

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Junior Aumavae resigns from LaFrance Administration to open his own consultancy

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Junior Aumavae resigns from LaFrance Administration to open his own consultancy

Junior Aumavae is leaving the LaFrance Administration, starting his own consultancy business to advise companies and governments on how to make equity programs actually fair for everyone. LaFrance has named a new chief equity officer for Anchorage, Kimberly Waller, who has come over to the administration from the Foraker Group.

“It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of Anchorage, Alaska as their Chief Equity Officer. That I became the highest ranking American Samoan government official in our state’s history made my service even more meaningful. I am proud of the work I have accomplished over the last 3 years. Some of these initiatives were recognized locally and internationally, and will remain some of my most cherished memories,” he said.

“Thank you to the people of Anchorage, Mayor Dave Bronson, Mayor Suzanne LaFrance and the Anchorage Assembly for allowing me to do good for all communities across our great city. My official day of resignation will begin Aug. 31, but I’am excited to launch Junior’s Elite Trends (JET) professional consulting to continue the good work of helping people and organizations achieve success in our city, state and globe. Visit my website at www.juniorselitetrends.com or contact [email protected] to get connected!” Aumavae wrote on LinkedIn.

His plan is to help increase the minority workforce without compromising the U.S. Constitution. This is the approach he took in Anchorage, and he was able to increase minority participation in government jobs from 21 to 26%. The process he uses is called JEDAI, rather than DEI, which current model being used to cram diversity, equity, and inclusion into workplaces, often making them dysfunctional for the taxpaying public.

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The key, Aumavae said, is to ensure that there is access to jobs and to help people translate their unique 

cultural experience into leadership roles.

“We gave access and still had qualifications but sometimes nontraditional work experience is a good fit,” he said. “DEI has gotten such a bad rap because it lowers standards. We don’t want discrimination either way.”

Aumavae’s story started in the MatSu Valley and took him to the NFL and back again, where he was hired by Mayor Dave Bronson. He plans to take what he has developed and learned and translate it to a national business model.

The paid position of chief equity officer was established by the Anchorage Assembly and Mayor Ethan Berkowitz. It is in addition to the Equal Opportunity Office director at the municipality, and critics say that it is an unnecessary position.

Waller was born in Fairbanks and raised in Anchorage. She launched the Women’s Power League of Alaska.

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Liberal super PAC that supports Peltola says it’s spending money to attack Begich … but which one?

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Liberal super PAC that supports Peltola says it’s spending money to attack Begich … but which one?

The pro-Peltola Super PAC “Vote Alaska Before Party,” reports it is spending money to attack the candidate most likely to be the biggest threat to Peltola’s reelection this election cycle: Mark Begich.

Wait, what?

Mark Begich is actually a well-known Democrat who is not running for office, but who has indeed been in politics a long, long time, as the mayor of Anchorage and with one term in the U.S. Senate. He supports Peltola.

It was a “1D10T error,” which in computer parlance means a human error. The super PAC meant to report that it is attacking “Nick Begich,” who is the leading Republican running against Peltola.

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It’s a mistake many have made, confusing the old-guard Democrat Mark with Republican Nick Begich, who is Mark’s nephew and as different from Mark as they come. Nick comes from the more freedom-loving side of the family and he has been a Republican since he was in high school, when he was a member of his high school Republican club.

Families are like that. Even Donald Trump has a liberal niece, Mary Trump, who opposes the former president.

Vote Alaska Before Party is spending $5,900 to oppose Nick Begich and equal amounts to oppose Gerald Heikes and Nancy Dahlstrom.

Maybe politicos outside Alaska may not know one Begich from another, but it’s an embarrassing mistake for the group’s treasurer, Alaska liberal political operative Jim Lottsfeldt, to make. He’s been around Alaska politics as a consultant to Democrats up and down the ballot and Sen. Lisa Murkowski for over three decades, and would consider someone like Mark Begich to be one of his closest allies.

In 2022, the super PAC Vote Alaska Before Party received more than $1.7 million from the House Democrats’s political action committee, and received other contributions from groups like Sealaska Corporation and IBEW. All of it went to support Peltola.

This year, its receipts are drastically reduced, although the super PAC’s fortunes could change after the Aug. 20 primary.

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Complaint filed against NBC for airing obscene content during Olympic Opening Ceremony

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Complaint filed against NBC for airing obscene content during Olympic Opening Ceremony

An actor’s testicles hung out of his costume on stage during the Olympics Opening Ceremony show that featured a drag-queen version of the Last Supper, one of the holiest moments of Christianity. They were the balls viewed ’round the world. And the tableau was followed by drag performances of various types, including one number depicting the Greek god Dionysus who appeared to be mostly naked but covered in blue paint.

Now, Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, has filed a Federal Communications Commission complaint against NBC for airing obscene and indecent content from the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the complaint that NBC and its stations/outlets on TV, cable, and internet carried (and continues to make available) the Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 26, which included an adult male purposefully exposing himself in the presence of a child/children. There was a child performer on the stage during the exposure.

Screenshot of opening ceremony.

“This content is both obscene and indecent and, to make matters worse, was aired during viewing hours when it was likely seen by millions of children and minors,” the complaint said. “The obscene/indecent content occurred during a portion of the ceremonies that mocked Jesus Christ and the Last Supper. The Olympics was forced to issue an apology over the content.”

From the televised performance, it’s impossible to tell if the actor’s testicles were actually exposed or were sheathed by a body suit that accentuated his genitals.

According to the FCC, “federal law prohibits obscene, indecent and profane content from being broadcast on the radio or TV.”  The FCC further states:

Obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment.  For content to be ruled obscene, it must meet a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court: It must appeal to an average person’s prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a “patently offensive” way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

Indecent content portrays sexual or excretory organs or activities in a way that is patently offensive but does not meet the three-prong test for obscenity.

The FCC says airing obscene or indecent content is a federal crime, but this is a case that may be dismissed by the lower court due to First Amendment claims.

“The blasphemous Olympics’ Opening Ceremony which included, among other obscene and indecent acts, a man partially exposing himself around children, is patently offensive for any sensible American and requires immediate FCC action against NBC” Fitton said. “The Justice Department should also launch an investigation, especially given the use of children in this obscene and indecent NBC broadcast.”

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Olympics: A win for women’s USA rugby, giving Eagle River’s Alev Kelter a bronze medal

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Olympics: A win for women’s USA rugby, giving Eagle River’s Alev Kelter a bronze medal

Eagle River’s Alev Kelter and the U.S. Women’s Rugby team won the bronze medal in their victory over Australia on Tuesday. The Australians led 12-7 but at the end of the match, team member Alex Sedrick ran most of the length of the field to score for the win.

The women’s team had lost to defending champions New Zealand on Monday, putting them in the running for the bronze.

Kelter has been an athlete all her life. When she was 14 years old, Kelter won a spot on the U.S. national soccer development program and later captained the U18 U.S. national hockey team, winning back-to-back gold medals at the International Ice Hockey Federation’s Women’s World Championships. After her senior year at Wisconsin, she tried out for the Olympic ice hockey team, but didn’t make the final cut. She started playing rugby at age 22, and competed in the U.S. women’s rugby team in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Her personal website says she is dedicated to social justice, inclusion, and body positivity.

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Which Fairbanks House candidate says white men need to sit down and shut up?

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Which Fairbanks House candidate says white men need to sit down and shut up?

Joy Beth Cottle, who changed her registration to Republican immediately before filing against Republican House Rep. Frank Tomaszewski of Fairbanks, has gone on the attack. She’s attacking conservatives and she’s attacking white men for the crime of being white.

She blistered Tomaszewski and two other sitting Republicans because they attended a symposium in Washington, D.C. that focuses on conservative, Christian-based leadership. Two of the Republicans she blasted were ethnic minorities — Rep. Jamie Allard and Rep. Stanley Wright.

In her attack, Cottle linked an article from a leftist blog out of Anchorage, whose founder is now employed by Rep. Alyse Galvin, the Democrat from Anchorage who flies under the false-flag “undeclared” category now.

It’s not a blog that a Republican would go to for her talking points, but Cottle jumped right in to become the first ever.

Cottle, who is a firefighter battalion chief, recently texted someone in Fairbanks a message stating that white men need to sit down and shut up. While she had railed about legislators attending faith-based conferences, calling them extremist and unconstitutional, she was not at all concerned about the constitutional rights of white men:

Cottle, who is deeply involved in union politics, has been identified here on Must Read Alaska as a false-flag Republican. Now, she is showing her true colors, blasting white men for being white, and falsely characterizing the leadership workshop that Republicans attended.

Cottle receives support from the same organizations that support Democrats almost exclusively, including the Alaska Public Employees Political Information Committee for $1,000, ASEA/AFSCME for $1,000, NEA for $1,000, IUOE Local 302 for $1,000, and Alaska Laborers Local 341 for $1,000, to name a few. All of the Democrats running for office are receiving the same level of support that Cottle is getting from these and other unions.

Cottle also has taken in donations from Democrat Sen. Scott Kawasaki, Democrat Grier Hopkins (NEA employee and candidate for mayor), and numerous other Democrats.

Tomaszewski, an electrician for over two decades who started a birch syrup company before running for House, defeated incumbent Democrat Rep. Grier Hopkins, 55-45%, in 2022 and is running for reelection for his first time.

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Olympics: Former UAF sharpshooter Sagen Maddalena places fourth in air rifle for Team USA

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Olympics: Former UAF sharpshooter Sagen Maddalena places fourth in air rifle for Team USA

Sagen Maddalena, who competed in shooting sports for the University of Alaska Fairbanks for six years, nearly medaled, but came in fourth place in the women’s 10m air rifle competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Monday, as she competed for Team USA in Chateauroux, France.

Maddalena, born in Woodland, Calif., started shooting competitively while growing up in the Golden State. She competed on the UAF Rifle Team from 2013-2018 and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2019.

She’s a four-time National Rifle Association First Team All-American in Air Rifle — 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018. She’s also a three-time NRA First Team All-American in Smallbore — 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, a three-time CRCA First Team Aggregate All-American — 2016, 2017 & 2018, and NRA Second Team All-American in Smallbore in 2015. 

Maddalena qualified for the eight-person final after placing seventh in the women’s 10m air rifle qualification round Sunday at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre, located 173 miles south of Paris.

Maddalena is an Army sergeant who is a shooter/instructor with the Army Marksmanship Unit international team. She is a two-time Olympian, having placed fifth in the women’s 50-meter rifle 3 positions (smallbore) competition at in Tokyo in 2020. Monday’s fourth-place finish was her first Olympic air rifle final.

Maddalena will compete next in the 50m rifle 3 positions competition on Aug. 1. In this event, she took a bronze medal in the 2023 world championships.

Winning the gold was Hyojin Ban of Korea. China’s Yuting Huang won silver, and Switzerland’s Audrey Gogniat shot for the bronze.

UAF has a storied shooting program. The president of the University of Alaska system, Pat Pitney, was the 1984 gold medal winner in the 10m air rifle.

Another former Nanook is competing on Team USA. Rylan Kissell is makes his Olympic debut this week, competing in Men’s 10m Air Rifle, Mixed Team Air Rifle and 50m Smallbore Rifle.

A native of Colorado, Kissell was a seven-time All-American, the 2023 individual air rifle champion, a member of the 2023 NCAA Championship team and the CRCA Most Valuable Shooter, during his years at UAF. He was the 2022 CRCA Shooter of the Year and had the first-ever perfect score at the NCAA Championships in 2023 in air rifle.

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Who are the U.S. representatives who will make up the Trump assassination attempt task force?

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Who are the U.S. representatives who will make up the Trump assassination attempt task force?

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the members of Congress who will serve on the House task force on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

Republican members of the task force:

Chairman Rep. Mike Kelly (PA-16) represents Pennsylvania’s 16th District and resides in his hometown of Butler, the location of the assassination attempt. He has longstanding ties to the local law enforcement community, is the author of the resolution creating the Task Force and will serve as its chairman.

Rep. Mark Green (TN-07) is a former U.S. Army major, combat veteran and E.R. physician. He is the Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. 

Rep. David Joyce (OH-14) served as an attorney and county prosecutor for 25 years and is former Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. 

Rep. Laurel Lee (FL-15) is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, a former judge for Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit and former Florida Secretary of State. She serves on the Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees.

Rep. Michael Waltz (FL-06) is retired from the U.S. Army Special Forces and is a former White House and Pentagon advisor. He serves on the Intelligence, Armed Services and Oversight Committees.  

Rep. Clay Higgins (LA-03) is a former U.S. Army staff sergeant and former law enforcement officer who maintains an active commission and Peace Officer’s Standards and Training (POST) certification. He serves on the Homeland Security and Oversight Committees.

Rep. Pat Fallon (TX-04) is a former U.S. Air Force officer, and serves on the Oversight and Armed Services Committees, and their respective subcommittees dealing with Tactical Air and Land Forces and National Security. 

Democratic members of the task force:

Ranking Member Rep. Jason Crow (CO-06) is a decorated former Army Ranger having served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Rep. Crow was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his heroism in Iraq. He is a Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Rep. Lou Correa (CA-46) is a senior Member of the House Judiciary and the House Homeland Security Committees, where he sits on the Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement & Intelligence Subcommittee. In that capacity, Rep. Correa recently traveled to Butler, PA to visit the site of the assassination attempt.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (PA-04) currently serves on the House Judiciary and House Foreign Affairs Committees and is a longtime Pennsylvania public servant, having served in the State House for six and a half years before coming to Congress. 

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) is a veteran of the United States Air Force and currently serves on the House Armed Services Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Rep. Glenn Ivey (MD-04) is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County who now serves on the House Judiciary, Homeland Security and Ethics Committees.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) is the former Florida Director of Emergency Management, where he oversaw both disaster response and after-action analysis. He serves on the House Oversight and Accountability and Foreign Affairs Committees.

The task force is empowered with all investigative authority of the House of Representatives, including subpoena authority. For the remainder of this Congress, it will assume control and jurisdiction over all pending House committee investigations regarding the Trump assassination attempt.

The goal of the task force is:

  • To understand what went wrong on the day of the attempted assassination.
  • To ensure accountability.
  • To prevent such an agency failure from ever happening again.

The task force will make recommendations for reform to the relevant government agencies and recommend any necessary legislation to implement the reforms.

Joe Biden pronounces Speaker Mike Johnson ‘dead on arrival.’ How is that not a threat?

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Joe Biden pronounces Speaker Mike Johnson ‘dead on arrival.’ How is that not a threat?

While in Austin, Texas on Monday, President Joe Biden was told by a reporter that his plan to remake the Supreme Court had already been pronounced “dead on arrival” by House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Biden replied, “I think that’s what he [Johnson] is. He is dead on arrival.”

It’s the kind of thing that the legacy media would run with if Donald Trump had said it. It would be declared a threat on the Speaker’s life.

But in these times, the mainstream reporters are only reporting negative news on Trump, not on Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.

Reporters, for example, reported that Trump had said if people vote for him, they’ll never have to vote again. He was speaking at an event organized by the conservative group Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Fla., when he said, in his characteristic way, “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

The media pounced, purposefully trying to show that Trump intends to be a dictator:

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