Irony Alert: National Zoo Euthanized an elephant whose name was prescient

An elderly elephant with long-standing health issues was recently euthanized at the Smithsonian National Zoo, in Washington, D.C.

The elephant was thought to be around 50-years-old, which is old for an elephant. She was humanely put down and sent to that big jungle in the sky after the Smithsonian announced over the weekend, after her physical condition had "irreversibly declined."

Oh, did I mention that the elephant's name was Kamala?

Seriously.

Kamala had been struggling with severe osteoporosis and the zoo did all they could to preserve her health, much like the DNC did all it could to preserve their political power. But alas, in both cases it was for naught. 

The zoo decided that "Kamala's declining quality of life," coupled with a "poor long-term prognosis," worsened to the point that they felt compelled to make the euthanasia call.

Kamala was born in Sri Lanka around 1975 and orphaned as a calf. She first lived at an elephant orphanage in Pinnawalla before being moved to the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada. She was then transferred to D.C. in 2014.

Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California. As a teenager, she moved to Montreal, Canada and eventually attended college at Howard University as an undergraduate student. She then attended law school at the University of California, Hastings College of Law (now known as UC Law San Francisco) through a program for students who've experienced major life hurdles such as economic hardship or educational disadvantages, in spite of both parents having PhDs and being well-off.

Kamala the elephant had better credentials for getting into a law program than Kamala Harris.

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Vegan raw food influencer dead of malnourishment

Zhanna Samsonova (ZS) a raw vegan influencer on Instagram has apparently "died of malnourishment" according to local reports in a Russian publication. 

Fortunately she didn't influence me or anyone I know.

She was originally from Moscow but was living in Sri Lanka where she became as thin as wet on water and her friends were worrying about her health, according to the publication.

ZS promoted a raw vegan diet consisting mostly of fruits and vegetables that had been cooked at a low temperature and had not been processed.

She mostly promoted Southeast Asian fruits such as jackfruit and durian but was looking frail and exhausted.

On the translated version of the website one influencer "friend" said "[A] few months ago, in Sri Lanka, she already had an exhausted appearance, swollen legs. They sent her home to seek treatment. However, she ran away again. When I saw her in Phuket [Thailand], I was horrified."

The Russian news outlet RTVI reported that ZS was seeking treatment and a death certificate or cause of death has yet to be issued. The outlet said that her mom looked at her diet "negatively," but said ZS did not complain about her health to her mom possibly because she was cashing in on her Instagram gig.

But it seems like those around ZS noticed she was looking like sickly. "I lived one floor above her and every day I feared finding her lifeless body in the morning. I convinced her to seek treatment, but she didn’t have time," the unnamed friend added.

While ZS may not have won a Darwin Award as many others have over the years, she seemed to have mistaken the idea of overdoing healthy behavior with healthy behavior. Perhaps this is a lesson for all of us to not get all of our dietary regimens from the internet.

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What we know about the Sri Lanka attacks

Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Authorities in Sri Lanka said, weeks before the attacks that killed at least 290 Christians and hotel guests, that they had received warnings from the U.S. and India about the possibility of an attack. Squat was done to prevent them.

Some of the suicide bombers and others who lived to be arrested were linked to an Islamist group known as National Thowheeth Jamath. The government singled out the group to police for monitoring as a possible threat after foreign security services warned the island nation.

Squat.

It's likely the sophisticated and closely-timed Easter attacks were carried out with help from experienced international terrorists such as al Qaeda or ISIS, according to Sri Lankan officials who did nothing upon receiving the warnings.

“We have found that NTJ was involved in the attacks,” said Rajitha Senaratne, a government spokesman and the country’s health commissioner, using an abbreviation for what he called “a local organization,” in the spirit of the UK who calls Muslims "Asians" and pretend they have no problem.

Senaratne said the government also believes a more sophisticated international terrorist group played a part in planning and executing the bombings.

Islamic State has now publicly claimed responsibility for the attacks, which have triggered public outrage over the government’s failure to stop them.

The Sri Lankan government said it received warnings from security officials in India and the U.S. on April 4 that they had picked up indications that attacks were being planned in Sri Lanka. While those warnings didn’t include the name of a group, Sri Lankan security officials linked them to National Thowheeth Jamath in a circular it distributed to police authorities on April 9.

After an emergency meeting of the country’s security council, President Maithripala Sirisena said he would establish a special committee, led by a supreme court judge, to examine why the early warnings didn’t lead to more action to head off any attacks.

Mr. Sirisena announced a state of emergency taking effect at the end of Monday and a new curfew from evening to morning. The emergency declaration allows the military to make arrests and hold those arrested without charges or appearances before a court for more than a day. A ban on social media remains in effect in the country and there will be a ban on the wearing of burqas.

Police said they discovered 87 detonators, apparently abandoned, at a private bus stand in the capital. Two more explosive devices were also discovered, one late Sunday near the airport and another on Monday in a van near the location where one of at least eight blasts occurred on Sunday. Police conducted a controlled detonation of the device found on Monday, causing no injuries.

The group, whose name translates to National Unification Group, is known to have expressed hard-line views. The local Islamist group originated in 2009 on Sri Lanka’s east coast, where it preached a conservative form of Islam known as Salafism. The group last year came to be known for defacing Buddhist imagery and inciting religious conflict.

Had the terrorist group been located in the United States of America and Bernie Sanders became president, he would have allowed them to vote along with the Boston Marathon bomber because he knows they'd vote on the Democratic Party line.


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BuzzFeed Buzzard Editor says Trump would be more outraged if Sri Lanka victims were white

Seriously, it's disgusting. Can the left just shut up for one day, Easter Sunday? Is their hatred for Trump so debilitating that they cannot help themselves?

Miriam Elder, a BuzzFeed News buzzard, took a swipe at President Trump while tweeting an article about the attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter. She received considerable backlash for it and she deserved it.

Elder tweeted and linked to BuzzFeed News:

"Suspect we’d be hearing a lot more outrage from Trump and co. if the Christians killed in Sri Lanka were white." 

Elder’s tweet, as The Washington Examiner reported, received more comments than likes or retweets. It received 1,324 replies, 40 retweets, 100 likes by her fellow racists. [A racist is a person who has preconceived beliefs, mostly negative, about groups of people based on their race. Elder and her ilk fall into this category.]

Many of the Twitter commenters asked why the BuzzFeed News world editor would politicize the terrorist attacks.

Trump offered condolences to the people of Sri Lanka on Easter morning. He didn't offer condolences to the brown people of Sri Lanka.

Trump tweeted about the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, saying “we stand ready to help!”

More than 200 people were murdered and hundreds were wounded in churches and luxury hotels in the series of coordinated attacks. This was the deadliest violence Sri Lanka has seen since a bloody civil war that ended ten years ago.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks; Sri Lanka’s defense minister described the bombings as a terrorist attack by religious extremists. So far, the Amish have been ruled out as well as the Jains and the Jews. 

The world is scratching its collective head wondering who would do such a terrible thing.

Meanwhile, Miriam Elder is a pretty terrible person.

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Sri Lanka: Multiple explosions on Easter Sunday leave at least 207 dead

At least 207 people have been murdered and as many as 450 others wounded after six nearly simultaneous explosions struck three churches and three luxury hotels in and just outside of Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday. They were followed hours later by two more blasts. These were Islamic extremist attacks and are the worst since Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war ended in 2009.

Nearly a dozen foreigners were among the dead and a curfew has been imposed as police conduct a search operation on the outskirts of Colombo, the capital, where the latest of eight explosions took place.

The first explosion took place around 8:45 a.m. local time, the deadliest at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, about 20 miles north of Colombo. Other attacks occurred at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo and Zion Church in the eastern city of Batticaloa. The three hotels – the Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury Hotel – all in Colombo are frequented by foreign tourists.

Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardena, described the attacks as a terrorist incident and blamed religious extremists, but forgot to mention the actual religion the terrorists were extremely influenced by, but you may have guessed that it was the religion of peace, Islam.

Wijewardena said Sunday night that seven suspects have been arrested--all are Muslims. 

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he feared the violence could trigger instability in the country and its economy, but forgot to mention death.

The other two blasts occurred in Dematagoda, where the occupants of a safe-house apparently detonated explosives to prevent arrest.

An official told the Associated Press that at least two of the church blasts were believed to have been coordinated attack carried out by suicide bombers.

One of the mass murderers has been identified as Zahran Hashim, a jihadi who has said in the past that "Allah created this land for Muslims." This makes a good case for a more robust scrutiny of immigrants coming into our country.

But no one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday’s blasts and people are scratching their collective heads wondering just who could do such a thing to Christians on the holiest holidays of the year. Hmm.

From President Trump to Theresa May, everyone took to Twitter to post their heartfelt support, condolences and prayers. Trump offered any help the country could give to Sri Lanka. 

Lots of thoughts and prayers went out.

St. Sebastian's pleaded for help on its Facebook page. The explosion ripped the roof off the building and knocked out doors and windows. Churches throughout the country have been placed on alert, with many canceling Easter services, giving the terrorists exactly what they wanted.

The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, called on Sri Lanka's government to launch a "very impartial strong inquiry" and to punish those found responsible "mercilessly because only animals can behave like that."

Actually, animals don't behave like that--they generally don't kill their own and when they do, it's never done out of their religious beliefs.

There was an outpouring of condemnation from around the world following the attacks, which did nothing to assuage future attacks.

Pope Francis denounced the "cruel violence" at the end of his traditional Easter Sunday blessing. Like the outpouring of condemnation and hearts going out, it will do little to stop future violence.

Speaking from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, Francis said: "I want to express my loving closeness to the Christian community, targeted while they were gathered in prayer, and all the victims of such cruel violence."

He added: "I entrust to the Lord all those who were tragically killed and pray for the injured and all those who are suffering as a result of this dramatic event."

British Prime Minister Teresa May tweeted "We must stand together to make sure that no one should ever have to (practice) their faith in fear." Yadda, yadda.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemned the "devastating" attacks, and referred to the March 15 shootings at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in which 50 died.

"New Zealand condemns all acts of terrorism and our resolve has only been strengthened by the attack on our soil," Ardern said. "New Zealand rejects all forms of extremism and stands for freedom of religion and the right to worship safely."

Now that all forms of extremism has been rejected, the extremists have been warned. If this continues, we will continue to reject your attacks.

I hope this scares you nasty extremists.

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Obama keeping lawmakers in the dark over secret refugee deal

Almost 2,500 refugees and terrorists from Islamic terrorism hot spots around the world are coming to the U.S. because Australia is smart enough not to take them. They just don't want any trouble, as it were.

But our top lawmakers are not being told about who these people are, and you can bet that among them will be people who are not taken kindly to infidels.

In a sneaky, unprecedented move of audacious proportions, the U.S. State Department has made a secret deal with Australia to resettle 2,465 unvetted refugees currently held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the deal a "one-off."

Don Barnett of the Center for Immigration Studies said "This is a backroom deal, wheeling and dealing with another country's refugee problem. I don't believe for a moment it's a one-time deal. That's for public consumption."

The shady move has raised a red flag among Congressional oversight members whose job it is to review, monitor and supervise federal agencies, programs, activities and policy implementation. When you keep the oversight committee in the dark, then you are probably doing something the public you work for doesn't want you to do.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) dispatched a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John "Lurch" Kerry complaining of a lack of transparency.

The letter read in part, "This situation is concerning for many reasons . . . your departments negotiated an international agreement regarding refugees without consulting or notifying Congress."

And the Obama administration is upset that Trump spoke on the phone to the President of Taiwan?

U.S. Customs and Immigration Services will be sending screeners to the Pacific Islands next month to begin the magic vetting process. They will ask such questions as:

1. Did you pack your bags yourself?2. Do you know what's in them?3. Are you a terrorist?

Those who initially probed the number of possible terrorists and others being considered for resettlement were told that it was "classified," in spite of the fact that refugee admissions are traditionally public. Officials did, however, confirm the countries of origin to be Iran (great going Obama), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and Sudan. Some are also deemed as "stateless." 

Iran, Sudan and Syria are on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, while the others are working hard to make the list. Those listed as "stateless" are the most likely to go off half-cocked because we know the least about them. 

Speaking about the "stateless" refugees, Barnett said, "These could be Burmese Muslims, who have posed assimilation issues for every nation which has taken them. It's a dangerous precedent which says, 'We'll take any ethnic group with which you don't get along."

It also says "Give me your tired, your poor, your suicide bombers, yearning to kill me, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the stateless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp in surrender beside the golden door!"

Australia has a long-standing policy that prevents people seeking asylum from entering their country before being fully vetted. The U.S.? Not so much.

The Grassley-Goodlatte letter asked why Australia and other nations refused to take in these refugees. We are all waiting with baited breath (which smells like worms, I guess) for an answer.

"If they've been vetted and deemed inadmissible, the U.S. can't say, 'You don't want them, so we'll take them,'" Barnett said.

At a November 14 press conference, Turnbull said, "Nobody is taking any more refugees, but what the Americans are doing is assisting these individuals on Nauru and Manus by bringing them in within their existing quota."

Obama increased the quota for the 12-month period that began in October. Last year it was 85,000 refugees; this year it's 110,000!

PM Turnbull's announcement that Australia would be "taking more refugees from Central America" as part of "commitments at President Obama's Refugee Summit" has lawmakers speculating that the deal is a trade of dangerous refugees for Central America refugees that Australia would be getting. 

It's kind of like the Iran nuclear deal but with human "nukes" instead of actual nukes.

The Grassley-Goodlatte committee representatives will receive a classified briefing in the Australian refugee deal next week. There will be plenty of questions that we'll never get the answers to--the cost, timing, how it will benefit tue U.S. and why the heck was the deal done in secret by "the most transparent administration in the history of the United States."


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