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The Golden City appears to be turning a shade of brown.

San Francisco’s streets have long had a problem with human waste, but new reports show that the Bay Area’s public bowel movements are worse than ever.

SAN FRANCISCO DUBBED 'DOO-DOO CAPITAL' OF THE COUNTRY, AMID SPIKE IN WASTE COMPLAINTS

The poop-data was released by Open the Books, a nonprofit government watchdog, which includes all cases closed by the San Francisco Department of Public Works since 2011, Business Insider reported.

There were over 5,000 documented cases in 2011, according to the data. In 2018, that number rose more than fivefold to over 28,000 reported cases.


The so-called Bay Area “brownout” has been attributed to the city’s large homeless population. Out of the 7,499 homeless people recorded in 2017, about 58 percent, or 4,353 people, were marked as unsheltered. The other 3,146 were designated sheltered.

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For two years, the mainstream media has claimed President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.

“Collusion,” “Collusion,” “Collusion,” Jan Brady might say.

But after Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended no further indictments — and indicted no one from the Trump campaign with colluding with Russia — the narrative had to change. Trump still did something wrong, something impeachable.

Since Attorney General William Barr summarized Mueller’s report by saying there was “no collusion,” but suggested there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction, the media has predictably cried foul. It was Barr who determined there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction, we’re told, which means there really was enough but the president’s hand-picked attorney general saved him.

And this is the story the media is running with today. The New York Times’ front-page headline was, “Mueller Report Lays Out Russian Contacts And Trump’s Frantic Efforts To Foil Inquiry.” The Washington Post went with, “Mueller details Russian interference, Trump’s attempts to disrupt probe.” The Wall Street Journal was a bit more measured, writing “Mueller Report Explains Findings On Obstruction, Conspiracy.”

The Post wrote article after article about obstruction and embarrassing details of the Oval Office, but none of these report the most important finding: That the two year media tantrum over alleged collusion didn’t pan out.

The Mueller investigation was predicated on the idea of collusion. It was, at its core, a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation, though it did end up charging people with crimes. As Andy McCarthy has explained numerous times, a counterintelligence investigation is done “to inform the president, through his subordinate intelligence officials, of information about threats to, and opportunities to advance, American interests.” He cannot obstruct an investigation done allegedly on his behalf.

Further, there was no underlying crime — this was never a criminal investigation. How can Trump obstruct an investigation into a nonexistent crime?

As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro wrote in his takeaways from the Mueller report, the special counsel went to great lengths to try and twist Trump’s criticism of an investigation into a crime he did not commit into a charge of obstruction.

“The President does have First Amendment rights. To suggest that public criticism of Robert Mueller or public praise of Paul Manafort amounts to criminal obstruction of justice requires an extraordinarily broad reading of obstruction of justice statutes,” Shapiro wrote.

My former Washington Examiner colleague Byron York explained that the investigation was “about something that did not happen,” and why the obstruction investigation existed:

And Volume I was a political assassination attempt by Democrats who were upset their preferred candidate lost the 2016 election.

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(K.R.) MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE DEAD IN 8 CHURCH AND HOTEL BOMBINGS IN SRI LANKA

At least 207 people have been killed and 450 more injured in a series of explosions targeting churches during Easter masses and hotels in Sri Lanka. Two Americans and several Britons are among the dead.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but Sri Lanka’s defense minister says the culprits have been identified and were “religious extremists”.

More than 50 people were killed in St. Sebastian’s gothic-style Catholic church in Katuwapitiya, north of Colombo, with pictures showing bodies on the ground, blood on the pews and a destroyed roof.

There were six initial blasts, at three hotels and three churches, before two more explosions some time later, at a housing complex during a police raid. At least three police officers were killed in those raids when blasts were triggered by suspects as they fled from police.

Ten days before Sunday's bomb attacks, Sri Lanka’s police chief made a nationwide alert that suicide bombers planned to hit “prominent churches”.

”A foreign intelligence agency has reported that the NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath) is planning to carry out suicide attacks targeting prominent churches as well as the Indian high commission in Colombo,” said the alert.

The NTJ is a radical Muslim group in Sri Lanka that came to notice in 2018 when it was linked to the vandalisation of Buddhist statues.

Christian groups say they have faced increasing intimidation from extremist Buddhist monks as well, in recent years. And last year, there were clashes between the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community and minority Muslims, with some hardline Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam.

According to the country’s 2012 census, 70% of Sri Lankan’s are Buddhist, 12.6% Hindu, 9.7% Muslim and 7.6% Christian.

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