Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So Are The ONTs Of Our Lives

—WeirdDave

As the world turns:

Second Look At Global Warming?

And here I thought nothing good could ever come of it.

Coldplay Won't Tour Because It's Killing the Planet or Something

Related: Climate Myths

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Chicago bar installs over 70 Big Mouth Billy Bass to sing popular songs in unison

Over My Cold, Dead Body

Pope Francis: World Government Must Rule U.S. ‘For Their Own Good’

Related:

Pope Francis Proposes Adding ‘Ecological Sin’ To Catechism

I hope the next Pope is a Christian, it would be a nice change from this totalitarian twat.

Related: My Socialist Hell: Living in Post-Electricity Venezuela

A Bit Of History

Filmmakers march forward with plans to make Revolutionary War movie in N.C.

It's set to be directed by outspoken conservative Nick Searcy, and aims to be historically accurate. I'll be the first in line to see it if it does get made, the southern campaigns of the Revolution are fascinating. Washington was fixated on New York while the war was won down south.

Wait until you see the bit with the 152MM gun firing on watermelons. The round is actually deflected. Gun bunnies everywhere hardest hit.

A Daughter Explores Her Father's PTSD, From Vietnam Until Today

Christmas: Unclear On The Concept

And of course, Millennials are butt hurt.

Millennials oppose workplace 'Secret Santa'

Nearly 1 in 3 millennials want to see Secret Santa banned. Weinberg explained that anxiety surrounding the gift exchange is one factor pushing millennials to want to give Secret Santa the boot.

Of course they want to ban it for everyone, rather than just opting themselves out.

You Will SPIN!

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) November 21, 2019

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Close it up

Open Thread

—Ace of Spades

Just a bit of blog business: I've really, really gotta take some time off, so back in the beginning of November, I decided I'd take off Thanksgiving week.

I'll be in and out to put up open threads, and maybe a link if it's important and easy.

The cobloggers said they'll pitch in here and there, but expect blogging to be very light. Like I said, I'll make sure there's new open threads, but that's as much as I can guarantee.

I'll be blogging tomorrow and everything. Just wanted to mention before I tune out for a week.

CNN Claims That an FBI Agent Is Under Criminal Investigation For Altering an "Investigative Document"

—Ace of Spades

The Horowitz report will now supposedly be released on December 9, with Grassley holding hearings with Horowitz as the main witness on December 11.

Christmas comes early? Or another ticket to see the wolf show?

Well, it seems legit, because CNN is reporting what could be the first leak from the upcoming report.

An FBI official is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The possibility of a substantive change to an investigative document is likely to fuel accusations from President Donald Trump and his allies that the FBI committed wrongdoing in its investigation of connections between Russian election meddling and the Trump campaign.

CNN is just telling you their planned coverage there. The "accusations" will be coming from inside Jake Tapper's nasally face.

Say, isn't an FBI Form 302 Interview Memorandum an "investigative document"?

And didn't we hear about a Form 302 being altered long after the fact to incriminate Michael Flynn?

So, which FBI agent will be investigated for altering an "investigative document"?

I can't think of a single suspect.

Bonus!

via redridinghood.

More, from Tami:

@JackPosobiec 2 minutes ago

Exclusive:

Tomorrow I will interview @SidneyPowell1 to discuss the FBI altering FISA documents and how the IG Report will affect General Flynn's case

You won't want to miss this

Only on @OANN!

Myles Garrett, Suspended for Hitting a Player In the Head With a Helmet Wielded Like a Club, Now Says, "Oh Wait, I Just Remembered, He Used a Racial Slur, That's Why I Did It"

—Ace of Spades

The slur was so seared into his memory he forgot to mention it until after the NFL suspended him indefinitely.

Now he trots out his Racial Privilege -- yes, he has privilege due to his race, not a disadvantage -- and asserts that he can't be punished.

Browns defensive end Myles Garrett [aka Cleveland Juicy Smolliere] told NFL officials that Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph used a racial slur leading up to their fight, ESPN reported on Thursday.

An on-field fight broke out during the last 8 seconds of the Browns and Steelers game on Nov. 14. It escalated when Garrett ripped off Rudolph's helmet and hit him in the head with it. The NFL banned Garrett for the final six regular-season games and playoffs

ESPN reported Garrett made the accusation during his appeal hearing on Wednesday. Appeals officer James Thrash "remained stoic and took copious notes" while listening to Garrett, according to ESPN.

Mason Rudolf denies it and the Steelers are backing him up.

The NFL has searched for evidence of Garrett's very convenient 11th-hour race hustle, and has found "no evidence" of it.

Rudoph's lawyer issued this statement:

"According to ESPN, in his appeal, Myles Garrett falsely asserted that Mason Rudolph uttered a racial slur toward him, prior to swinging a helmet at Mason's uncovered head, in a desperate attempt to mitigate his suspension. This is a lie. This false allegation was never asserted by Garrett in the aftermath of the game, never suggested prior to the hearing, and conspicuously absent in the apology published by the Browns and adopted by Garrett.

"The malicious use of this wild and unfounded allegation is an assault on Mason's integrity which is far worse than the physical assault witnessed on Thursday. This is reckless and shameful. We will have no further comment."

Garrett's suspension was upheld on appeal.

Seems awfully funny that Garrett only remembered this detail at his appeals hearing after having been socked with a huge suspension.

To be honest, I really didn't think he deserved such a long suspension. Yes, striking a man with a helmet is dangerous. But this is a contact sport, and sometimes people get chippie, and sometimes it escalates, and it's hard to extract yourself from an escalating situation.

Especially if you subscribe to a macho ethic of not backing down and so forth.

So yeah, I think he should have been punished, but I also think the punishment should have taken into account of the fact that, you know what? It's hard to de-escalate when you're fighting.

But now that he's taking out his Racial Privilege card and making the typical "Devil White Man Is To Blame So I'm Innocent" racial play?

This lie is a premeditated assault.

I hope they suspend him for life.

And pro-tip: When you can Plead Your Race and expect more lenient punishment, your race is not some barrier to your success, but an unfair racial privilege.

Oh: Reviewing the actual hit (video here), I think I have to retract the bit about not thinking such a long suspension was justified.

Garrett started this entire episode -- this wasn't mutual chippiness, as I'd guessed -- by not only tackling a quarterback who had already passed the ball, but slamming him hard into the ground, driving him into the ground.

That right there is a big suspension.

Taking it to the next step and attacking the guy with his own helmet?

Well. That's special, and deserves a special punishment.

Prince (?) Andrew "Fired" By Royal Family; Withdraws From Official Duties, Will No Longer Receive His 250,000 Pounds Per Year Royal Stipend

—Ace of Spades

The article states that the royals -- or, whatever, the Windsors -- are bracing for official US subpoenas demanding that Andrew York talk to FBI officials about his very special friendship with Jeffrey Epstein (guilty of sex trafficking, innocent of suicide).

His BBC interview -- which his PR agent quit over, advising against it and signing that advisement with a resignation -- was Andrew's bid to reduce law enforcement interest in him.

I guess because he knew his status as a royal was hanging by a thread.

The interview, however, seems to have only united everyone in the opinion that he is at least a liar and quite possibly a john for underaged girls forced into prostitution.

And so the royals gave him a less dramatic version of the Jeffrey Epstein treatment.

The brutal ouster, when it came, was worthy of the nickname the royals use for themselves, "The Firm."

Late Wednesday afternoon, Prince Andrew issued the statement that brought his public life to an end. He claimed it was his decision and that he had sought the queen's "permission" to withdraw from public duties for the foreseeable future, but the truth was far from that.

Royal briefings are making it very clear today that he was fired'--and the termination is permanent.

"The bottle of whisky and the pearl-handled revolver were laid out for him. And they were laid out for him by his mother," one source told The Daily Beast.

That's a bit dangerous to say -- because I think one viable theory in the case of Jeffrey Epstein is that he paid off guards to give himself some "privacy" while he made a clean exit.

Which is like "laying out a bottle of whiskey and a revolver" for him.

...

Andrew was told he would no longer to have any frontline duties representing the family. He was told he was to stand down immediately from his 200 charitable patronages. He was told that he would immediately lose his £250,000 per annum grant.

The article speculates that Charles was largely behind this, because he's supposedly wished to exclude Andrew since 2012.

Well, maybe. But the decision seems overdetermined.

I'll update you about any visits he receives from corrupt former law enforcement personnel and/or shady private detectives paid by Hillary Clinton.

Impeachment Thread

—Ace of Spades

I'm personally not watching and I'll just scan the headlines at the end of testimony to do a recap post. But I know a lot of people are still watching, so here's a thread for discussion about it.

Because this is obviously a content-free post (at least as far as my contribution to it goes), I'll just post this, and then post something with content directly above it.

But consider this post "live," even though it's going to be in the second post position.

Here's a link to FoxNews' feed, on YouTube.

Another of Hunter Biden's Paymasters Received $130 Million In Special Federal Loans While Pop-Pop Was Vice President

—Ace of Spades

Oh.

An investment firm linked to Hunter Biden received over $130 million in federal bailout loans while his father Joe Biden was vice president and routed profits through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, according to federal banking and corporate records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

Financial experts said the offshore corporate structure could have been used to shield earnings from U.S. taxes.

Rosemont Capital, an investment firm at the center of Hunter Biden’s much-scrutinized financial network, was one of the companies approved to participate in the 2009 federal loan program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF.

Under the program, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank issued billions of dollars in highly favorable loans to select investors who agreed to buy bonds that banks were struggling to offload, including bundled college and auto loans.

Liberal Media Democrat Joe Scarborough: It's Time We Democrats Had an Uncomfortable Discussion About Joe Biden's Diminished Cognitive Function

—Ace of Spades

Indeed.

SCARBOROUGH: Of course, Willie, he's struggling there. He’s closing his eyes. He knows he's having trouble finding words. The sentences are jumbled, the words are jumbled. I just worried when I read -- you see this and, listen, I’m just saying, I think Biden has the best chance of beating Trump. I do. Like if he's on his game. But I just wonder, is the media grading Joe Biden on a scale? Are we afraid to say that a lot of his sentences don't make sense? That he's having trouble completing thoughts? That when he’s asked in a previous debate about Afghanistan an issue he knows more about than anybody, not only on that stage, but in Washington, D.C., he ends up stumbling through an answer on Iraq. Are we grading him on a scale the same way people have always graded Donald Trump on a scale in these debates?

GEIST: Yes. The answer is yes.

Other partisan Democrats are taking a different tack: They're implicitly admitting there is a cognitive problem on display, but they claim that this is only because Joe Biden has a stutter he won't admit to, and his problem speaking cogent sentences and remembering words is due to... I guess due to him using too much of his Genius Brain to correct his stutter?

And because most of his Genius Brain is so deployed, managing his stutter, he does not have the remaining brainpower to remember what words he said one second ago, or even who is on stage with him?

Is this how stuttering works? Trying to correct your stutter makes your brain take little narcoleptic naps mid-sentence?

Here, let me answer that: No.

Polls: Support for Impeachment Dropping, Trump Gains on His Democrat Opponents, Now Leading (Within the Margin of Error) Three of the Four Top Democrat Challengers

—Ace of Spades

A Morning Consult poll from a couple of days ago found that opposition to impeachment had jumped ten points.

Opposition by independents to the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry jumped 10 percentage points in the last week, according to a Politico–Morning Consult poll released Tuesday.

The poll showed 47 percent of independents opposed the inquiry, compared to 37 percent last week. Meanwhile support for the inquiry by independents fell 7 points to 40 percent.

Support for the inquiry among all respondents fell 2 points to 48 percent, while opposition to it rose 3 points to 45 percent.

Now comes an Emmerson poll, confirming these basic findings, and showing Trump ahead of three of the four top Democrat candidates, and trailing only one -- Sanders, oddly enough -- by 1%.

Pop-Pop Biden seems like a paper tiger.

If you can't read that:

HUGE --> Another poll finds impeachment backfiring.

* Trump approval "bounced" 5 points to 48% (was 43% in October)

* Support for impeachment drops 5 points.

* A SEISMIC 30-point swing among independents, who now OPPOSE impeachment by 15 points.

Further details:

A new Emerson poll finds President Trump’s approval has increased in the last month with 48% approval and 47% disapproval, a bounce from 43% approval in the last Emerson National poll in October. Support for impeachment has flipped since October from 48% support with 44% opposing to now 45% opposed and 43% in support. The biggest swing is among Independents, who oppose impeachment now 49% to 34%, which is a reversal from October where they supported impeachment 48% to 39%.

...

The president’s support in the Republican primary increased this month to 93% against primary challengers Bill Weld and Joe Walsh. Trump's head to head matchups in the General Election against the top Democratic candidates have also tightened since October, now trailing Sanders by 1 point and leading his other three potential opponents.

I assume Trump is actually beating Warren but both of their numbers get rounded down or up to 50%. Obviously, these aren't big leads.

BTW, there's an impeachment thread below, if you want a thread specifically for discussion about the fake impeachment hearings.

Epstein Guard Willing to Cooperate With Invesgitators

—Ace of Spades

I don't expect this means a lot, but you know, Epstein did not kill himself.*

A Manhattan prison guard is willing to cooperate with a federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death -- even though she's been accused of goofing off while he hanged himself, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Tova Noel "did not make any efforts to frustrate the Government's investigation" following Epstein’s jailhouse suicide, defense lawyer Jason Foy said in a statement.

"In fact, Ms. Noel remains available to fully and truthfully cooperate with the Inspector General’s investigation, which is also geared toward uncovering the many problems that existed from the commencement of her employment [and] which continue to plague the Metropolitan Correctional Center."

Foy didn't respond to a message asking what sort of info Noel could provide.

* As I've said, I actually think Epstein did kill himself. The idea of corrupt cops working for Hillary Clinton or the Royal Family bumping him off is just too big a thing for me to accept, on an intuitive, gut-guess level.

But I think it's generally salutary to distrust the government to the very maximum.

I also think it's funny to upset the Hall Monitors in our media and government who freak out if you mention a non-liberal-approved Conspiracy Theory.

Joe Biden: Mark My Words, This Violence Against Women Situation Is Going to Require a Lot of Punching, and I'm Literally Serious

—Ace of Spades

Are you all right there, pop-pop?

Did your brain take a little nap?

Joe Biden

We need to grab hold of sexism and slap it in its whore mouth.

He also forgot Kamala Harris exists, but who can blame him for that one?

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

If you ever watch ABC news...stop. These smarmy worms are blaming President Trump for the Iranian regime's murder of protesters.

Amnesty: At least 106 dead in protests, which Iran disputes [The link goes to outline.com, but if it doesn't work and you must see the ABC report, here it is.]

Absent in the coverage was an acknowledgement of what sparked the demonstrations. The jump in gasoline prices represents yet another burden on Iranians who have suffered through a painful currency collapse, following President Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal of the United States from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, and the reimposition of crippling U.S. economic sanctions.

So using this twisted logic, the Hungarian freedom fighters were responsible for their own murders, as were the Czechs. And the United States was responsible for the millions of deaths in the Pacific, because if we had only allowed the Japanese their oil, everything would have been just marvelous.

It is simply amazing to me that the writers of this shit are so consumed by their hatred of President Trump, and by extension traditional-values America, that they are willing to absolve a murderous dictatorship in Tehran of the murders of its subjects. Oh, let us not forget that the Mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard were directly responsible for the IEDs that killed and maimed so many of our troops in Iraq and elsewhere. Just for that we should have bombed them into oblivion, but I guess the 4th Estate prefers to support (indirectly ) them rather than condemn them.

The media are traitors to the cause of freedom and liberty in America and around the world, and they are less and less interested in hiding their proclivity for dictators and totalitarianism over our way of life.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Leonardo Loredan
Giovanni Bellini

The Morning Report - 11/21/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Thursday and as the sham-peachment rolls on, the big news coming out yesterday was EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland's blockbuster testimony wherein he stated in response to Schiff-for-Brains, and I'm paraphrasing, that yes he believed that Trump did ask for some sort of quid pro quo with regards to aid money for Ukraine. Aside from the fact that the past few days of testimony of the Dems' own witnesses shot quid pro quo to hell and they then went on to bribery and extortion, that was enough for Schiff-for-Brains to halt the proceedings on the pretext of a bathroom break to dash out into the hallway where a gaggle of propagandists had their microphones and cameras rolling:

"The veneer has been torn away... This is a seminal moment in our investigation."

And the agitprop media went wild. Except when the Republicans started grilling him, he was forced to whistle a very different tune - namely the whole truth.

...Ambassador Sondland admitted that his conclusion tying the release of the withheld security aid to Ukraine to "some kind of action on the public statement that we had been discussing for many weeks" was only his own presumption, supported by no direct evidence. He conceded, in response to a question from Republican Rep. Mike Turner, that nobody told him that President Trump linked the Ukraine aid to a Biden investigation. "No one on this planet told you that President Trump was tying aid to investigations. Yes or no?" Rep. Turner asked. Sondland replied: "Yes." In a follow-up question, Rep. Turner asked, "So you really have no testimony here today that ties President Trump to a scheme to withhold aid from Ukraine in exchange for these investigations?" Ambassador Sondland replied, "Other than my own presumption." At another point in his testimony, the ambassador downgraded his "presumption" of a quid pro quo to "my own personal guess...

CNN actually had to change it's chyron of "Trump About to Be Arrested" almost in mid-sentence of Sondland's damning statement. But the real killer-diller here is Sondland recalled a meeting he had with Trump wherein the President specifically and unequivocally declared:

"I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NOTHING! I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO! TELL PRESIDENT ZELENSKY TO DO THE RIGHT THING!"

Jim Jordan, whose head I fully expect to explode at any moment over all the outrageousness of this madness, wanted to know why, in G-d's name, in Sondland's entire 23-page statement about the incident was this conversation - which is exculpatory in the extreme and completely exonerates Trump over anything he is being accused of vis a vis quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, picking his feet in Poughkeepsie, etc. - omitted from his testimony? And Sondland said, get this, there wasn't enough room in his report to include it. If I were Jim Jordan, I'd have leaped over the lectern, ripped Sondland's arms from his body and beaten Schiff-for-Brains to death with them (rhetorically speaking).

But, no matter. Schiff-for-Brains finally got a shred of an iota of a fig leaf of an excuse to declare he's got the goods on Trump and so as we speak the articles of impeachment are being drafted based on Sondland's testimony, minus the aforementioned of course. The Democrats are already attempting to spin all of this but of course are omitting, as is their wont when facts get in the way of the meme, the context around the conversations between Trump, Zelensky and all the players involved. Zelensky was elected to root out and end rampant corruption in his country from the previous administration. That gang of crooks it should be noted were up to their eyeballs in it and it involved the Bidens, Clinton, Obama and others that along with run of the mill goniffing of millions, players in that nation were part of the Russian collusion myth/plot to sabotage Trump in 2016. All Trump was trying to do was ensure that any aid going to Ukraine would not end up stolen and or pissed away as it was under both presidents' predecessors. That my friends is the kind of smart and 100% legal statecraft which is part of the platform Trump ran and won on. Devin Nunes, G-d bless him, was attempting to bring up this very issue and put things in context as well, citing a witness (can't recall his name, dammit!) who gave a sworn deposition to what I just related and that would've blown a hole the size of a $150 billion dollar pallet of case into Sondland's entire testimony. But of course Schiff-for-Brains would not allow him to testify.

My gut tells me that, like everything else, this too shall explode in their faces. Look, they are going to have a vote on impeachment no matter what happens and of course it will pass, but along strict party lines. Even after yesterday, the people are sick to death of this garbage because they are recognizing more and more that it is indeed an attempt to illegally oust Trump. Plus, if/when this gets to the Senate, the whole thing will bust wide open with witnesses that the Dems are desperate not to be called because it will not only debunk their case against Trump, it will reveal the original plot to overthrow him and put all sorts of people in the spotlight and jeopardy, at least in theory. Plus there is Horowitz and Durham, but AG Barr gave a speech the other day that only hints at his fury at the Democrats.

Lastly, it should be noted that Gordon Sondland and his wife have received threats and intimidation, as well as organized protests at some of the hotels that they own. In the center of this is a Democrat Congressman from Antifa City USA, aka Portland Oregon named Earl Blumenauer who openly called for boycotts, and then later emitted the not-so cryptic Tweet "Welcome to the Resistance." The Left went out of its mind with rage when Trump let out a Tweet about Masha Potatovich (Maria Yovanovytch) which was an absolute nothing-burger compared to this, which is bust-out in-your-face witness intimidation. Could that account for Sondland's behavior and the omission of the exculpatory evidence from his 23-page statement and his responses to Schiff-for-Brains? Well, given all we have seen from intimidating people in restaurants to doxxing personal information, to bike locks in the head to gunning down Republicans at a softball practice, I'd say it's a possibility.

SHAM-PEACHMENT FOLLIES

• Sondland: "Every Meeting at the White House Has Conditions"
  
• Sondland Affirms "No One on This Planet" Told Him Trump Was Tying Ukraine Aid to Investigating Bidens
  
• Ambassador Sondland Blows Holes in Democrats' Impeachment Narrative
  
• Jordan to Sondland on Quid Pro Quo: "It's Not 2 Plus 2 - It's 0 for 3"
  
• Goodwin: Dems Finally Got Something They Can Use for Impeachment (something they can use, but not what they wanted - jjs)
  
• Report: FBI Wants To Speak With Trump Whistleblower
  
• Giuliani Slams GOP Impeachment Lawyer, Demands Apology
  
• Ol' Yeller Levin: "There's a Cabal of Bureaucrats" Working to Bring Down Trump in Impeachment Hearings
  
• Rep Mike Turner Gets Witness To Admit Bombshell, Debunks CNN Headline In Real Time
  
• Fake News: AP, CNN, NYT Twist Sondland Testimony on Ukraine
  
• Will Joe Bribem Take the Fifth in a Senate Trial?

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
  In the From-Whence-All-The-Previous-Came department, Lindsay Graham confirms that the Horowitz FISA Abuse Report will be released on December 9th. Meh, why not now, unless other "surprises" are in the offing. Also, Margot Cleveland continues her great work following the Michael Flynn railroading, DoJ IG report on FBI malfeasance and finally, Palsi Pelosi's projection/sliming of Trump as an "impostor" really describes Obama.

• Graham: Horowitz FISA Report Will Be Released on December 9
  
• Cleveland: All Eyes On Judge In Michael Flynn Case After Weeks Of Shocking Developments
  
• DoJ Inspector General Report Documents FBI Misuse Of Secret Sources
  
• Pelosi's Projection (Kenya-Kona Blend, we still hardly knew ye - jjs)

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  More proof of who the racists and bigots really are and Hickenlooper sticks the taxpayer with the bill for his mouthpiece.

• Establishment-Backed DNC Candidate Discriminated Against Employees Based on Age, Race
  
• Hickenlooper's Attorney Fees Cost Taxpayers $43,000

  JOE BIDET, HUNTER BIDET UKRAINE, CHI-COM, OTHER SCANDALS
  Maybe the Burisma founder is out shopping for a gift for Bribem's new grandkid?

• Burisma Founder Suspected Of Embezzling Ukrainian State Funds, Whereabouts Currently Unknown

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  Sanctuary city policies are indeed insurrectionist and dangerous to national security and public safety, and who says kids aren't smart?

• Illegal Alien Involved In Deadly Car Crash Flees To Mexico After Authorities Ignore ICE Detainer, Feds Say
  
• Feds: Alleged Drug Smuggler, 16, Tried to Move Meth Across the Border with a Remote Controlled Car

  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  Brown shirt Antifarian thuggery targets the Sondlands, Coulter and Art Laffer, and Andrew Cuomo in no way is going to criticize Leftist thugs at the Binghamton campus. Mostly because he agrees with them.

• Left Protests at Gordan Sondland Hotels, Bullies Family Members with Threats
  
• Art Laffer College Speech Shut Down By Protesters, Student Who Attended Describes How It All Went Down
  
• Cuomo's Disgraceful Silence on the Outrages at SUNY Binghamton (because he approves of it - jjs)
  
• Protesters Swarm Berkeley, Several Arrested Ahead of Ann Coulter Speech

  YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT "DEBATE"
  I think last night was the fifth Democrat presidential debate, which mostly was a continuation of the anti-Trump impeachment fest. But, there were some lowlights worthy of noting. Joe Bribem is now Smokin' Joe who intends to stop violence against women by "punching at it and punching at it and punching at it!" But wait, there's more! The paste-eating girl-groping hair-sniffer then claimed he was as black as the ace of spades (no not our Ace of Spades) or something. Other than that stupidity, Kamala-Toe Harris was desperate to save her all but dead campaign by going after the woman she once derided, Tulsi Coffeecake. Although she landed no punches, Tulsi was still slamming Hillary as well as Mayor Buttplug, who no one else dared go after. For her troubles, she was accused of actually being friendly with Republicans. The horror!

  Aside from that and the usual promises to destroy our economy by turning the nation into a vast gulag, Mayor Buttplug made a big deal of his ring and Amy Klobuchar had the hippie hippie shakes... or left it on vibrate. Her phone, that is.

• Dem Debate: Impeachment Hearing Repeat
  
• Breitbart Debate Blow by Blow
  
• Smokin' Joe Bribem On Violence Against Women: We Have To Keep "Punching At It, and Punching At It and Punching At It"
  
• He Was Born a Poor Black Child: Biden Tries to Out-Black Brokeback Booker at Dem Debate
  
• Tulsi Coffeecake Hammers Democrat Party During Debate; Trump Campaign Pounces On It
  
• Kamala-Toe Calls Out Tulsi Coffeecake for "Buddying Up" with Republicans (there's a Nuremburg Law for that, eh Kamala-Toe? - jjs)
  
• Tulsi Coffeecake Faces the Repercussions For Challenging Hillary Clinton During Fifth Debate
  
• Dems Let Iowa Frontrunner Coast in Fourth Debate (Tulsi Coffeecake bashes gay guy - jjs)
  
• Mayor Buttplug Discusses the Importance of "Wearing His Wedding Ring" On Debate Stage (did he drop his pants to show it off? - jjs)
  
• Klobuchar Sets Herself on Vibrate, Shakes Up Everyone Watching

  POLITICS
  RNC releases new ad highlighting Dem impeachment hypocrisy, Ben Carson slams Maxine Waters, Latinos and Blacks not big on Mayor Buttplug, give it up, Kamala-Toe (no, not that; your campaign), bite-sized billionaire busybody dumps money into shady voter drive, House GOPers not giving up on the burbs, debunking a bit of racialism and Seb Gorka with a warning about Trump's Achilles heel. Spoiler alert: it's a weak GOP.

• RNC Hammers Democrats In New Ad Highlighting Their Words On Impeachment
  
• Ben Carson on Maxine "Mikvah" Waters Letter: "Basic Manners Elude You"
  
• In Spite of Recent Polling Surges, Mayor Buttplug Not Doing Well With Black, Hispanic Voters
  
• Kamala-Toe Harris Tweet About Always Working For "The People" Backfires
  
• Bite-Sized Billionaire Bloomberg Is Dumping Millions Into a Voter Registration Campaign
  
• House Republicans Fight Back Against GOP Decline in Suburbs
  
• Why Our Politicians Do Not "Look Like America"
  
• Gorka: How President Trump Loses in 2020

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Google needs to be destroyed, period. Also, Wikipedia's Joo-haters exposed, Trump dines in secret with Zuckerberg, global media targets PDT and Brazil's prexy, and the SPLC is a criminal, anti-American enterprise.

• Report: Google Asked Texas AG For Docs Revealing Info About the Tech Giant's Chief Critics (LOLGF - jjs)
  
• Wikipedia's Anti-Israel Editors Unmasked
  
• Trump Hosted Secret White House Dinner with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
  
• Global Media War on Nationalists Targets Trump, Bolsonaro
  
• Nobody Expects the SPLC Inquisition!

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  Interesting take on using the law to our benefit.

• A New Paradigm to Beat the Gun-Grabbers

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Iran once again on the brink with reports of over 100 civilians killed by the regime, ex-pats calling for help and more sanctions to try and stop the new uranium enrichment. Also, Senate disappoints Lebron James and unanimously passes bill supporting Hong Kong protesters, Evo Morales wants to starve Bolivia as thanks for rejecting him, Prince Andrew steps down from public duties in light of Epstein not committing suicide, and a look at kleptocracy in Liberia which is also a good indicator of the situation in Ukraine during the Obama and Biden years.
  
  

• Iran Protesters Target Clerics, Regime Kills Over 100 Civilians
  
• Iran's Rouhani Claims Victory Over Unrest and Blames Foreigners
  
• "We Need Your Help": Iranian Expats Ask Trump to Counter Tehran's Cyber Crackdown
  
• Trump Admin Is Right To Reapply Sanctions To Iran's Uranium Enrichment
  
• Senate Unanimously Passes Hong Kong Democracy Bill Backing Protestors
  
• "Don't Let Food into the Cities": Evo Morales Caught on Tape Planning Starvation in Bolivia
  
• Prince Andrew Had Public Duties, Is Stepping Down from Them
  
• How to Launder Foreign Aid (Liberia, but it clues you in about Ukraine - jjs)

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  Mayor Buttplug's new New Deal is the same tired old big government bullshit, Trump flips yet another Federal court to conservative control and House passes yet another continuing CR to stop a government shutdown, Heaven forfend. Feh.

• Mayor Buttplug's Biggest Boondoggle: An Army Of Federally Funded Leftist Activists?
  
• Trump Flips Another Federal Court to Conservative Control
  
• Lather, Rinse, Repeat: House Passes Stopgap Spending Bill to Avoid Government Shutdown

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair have your head examined. Also, a more conservative look at this income inequality thing and in praise of free markets as the driver of freedom.

• Report: "No One Wants To Open A Restaurant In San Francisco"
  
• Why the Right Should Care About Income Inequality
  
• Free Markets: The Purest Form of Democracy

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  Jussie Galore has chutzpah galore. Have fun with that, Lori Lightfoot.

• Jussie "Galore" Smollett Files Malicious Prosecution Counterclaim Against Chicago

  HEALTHCARE
  In praise of New York's mental health system.

• Treatment with Dignity

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  California's rulers in a snit with automakers for not buying into the green bullshit and siding with Trump, and I saw Narcissist and Asperger open for the Boogaloos in my living room... every Saturday morning at 8:00 on NBC.

• California Officials Snub LA Auto Show Over Automakers' Support for Trump in Emissions Lawsuit
  
• Obama to Greta: "You and Me, We're a Team"

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  Uh oh. Elon's rocket goes boom boom during test.

• Explosion During Space-X Starship Tank Tests

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  They don't want equality, they want us destroyed, Brit mom targeted for persecution by the radical homo crowd, and cutting our balls off, figuratively and literally.

• The Left's "Toxic Masculinity," "MeToo" Agenda Is Crushing Boys
  
• British Mom Long-Targeted by Trans Activists Denied Entry to the US
  
• Feminism as Gender Terrorism: The Mortal Vendetta Against the Male Sex

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Daniel Greenfield on Tinsel Town's total failure with femme reboots, hey if Alexander Hamilton can be black why can't Harriet Tubman be white? Also, kicking myself in the head for not faking being a scientist and asking for money for this study, a look at identity politics madness and a look at China building cities from the ground up.

• Greenfield: Feminist Movie Reboots Lost Hollywood $200 Million
  
• Seriously? Movie Studio Wanted Julia Roberts to Play Harriet Tubman in Biopic (well if Alexander Hamilton can be played by a black guy... - jjs)
  
• Study Shows Men Prefer Looks, Women Prefer "Social Status"
  
• "Stay in Your Lane": On Identity Groups' Attempts to Control Race and Gender Debates
  
• The City in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (11/20/19) I Forgot There Was A Debate Tonight Edition

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

"Almost everyone involved in public-policy debates agrees that it would be good if the federal government could collect more revenue without raising tax rates or reducing tax deductions or credits. It should be indisputable that investment to make sure all citizens meet their tax obligations is desirable."
The National Bureau of Economic
Research

Quote II

“You all seem to have forgotten that Jeffrey Epstein, the offense for which he was charged and for which he was imprisoned, was for soliciting prostitution from minors. That is not the same thing as pedophilia,” Lady Colin Campbell

Quote III

“If we distribute a bunch of stuff that’s frozen or from the refrigerator and cold, what are people going to do with it? Take it home and not have anywhere to put it?” Beth Stanton

Quote IV

We extend our deepest sympathies to the family of the pet involved in this incident. We take this matter very seriously and are working directly with those involved to determine the circumstances behind this event. Based on the outcome of our investigation, we will take the appropriate action.” FedEx

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Truth or fiction? The sad fact is that it is so believable.

First-term firebrand Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come out in support of what many are calling obvious truth: “Einstein didn’t kill himself.”

“But I don’t know why everyone’s making such a big deal about it,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a press conference. “I mean, like, he’s been dead for over a thousand years right? Or was that Newton? I’m not good at history.”

It’s unclear whether AOC as the kids like to call her was aware that Einstein died at the Princeton Medical Center in 1955.

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Let me get this straight. Gay, black, employed as an actor and act out a fake hate crime hoax and you're suing the City of Chicago? Big balls.

Via Fox News:

Jussie Smollett says the $10,000 he was mandated to pay after the criminal case against him was closed should prevent the city of Chicago from seeking reimbursement for the police investigation following his claim, back in January 2019, that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic attack.

Attorneys for the former “Empire” actor filed a response Tuesday to Chicago’s lawsuit in federal court. They also filed a counterclaim against the city, saying Smollett was the victim of a malicious prosecution that caused humiliation and extreme distress.

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The ACLU certainly doesn't know much about law. And knows less about science.

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And once you control their healthcare, you can control them completely. Outrageous medical care in Great Britain. Or nothing to see here move along.

At least 42 babies and three mothers died at maternity wards covered by a single hospital trust due to a ‘toxic’ culture, a leaked report has claimed.

Children were also left with disabilities as a result of substandard care at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust in what could possibly be the largest maternity scandal in NHS history.

Staff at the trust routinely dismissed parents’ concerns, were unkind and got dead babies’ names wrong, according to the document seen by The Independent.

In one troubling case, parents were not told their baby’s body had arrived back from the post-mortem examination, and it was left to decompose so badly the family never got to say goodbye properly.

The interim update report comes from an independent inquiry led by maternity expert Donna Ockenden, which was launched by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt in July 2017.

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Dear Mummy I still want to be prince. Make the hullabaloo go away.

Prince Andrew was forced to quit royal duties last night after a dramatic intervention by the Queen and the Prince of Wales.

They took decisive action to contain the fall-out from the duke's disastrous TV interview about his friendship with a paedophile billionaire.

The interview triggered days of catastrophic headlines and caused a string of businesses and charities to desert him.

Following lengthy discussions with Charles, who is touring New Zealand, the Queen summoned Andrew to Buckingham Palace and told him to step down.

On the bright side he didn't tell certain members of the press #LearnToCode.

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Nancy Pelosi explains..............

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Not preaching, but.....There are reasons for leash laws. Australian woman beaten severely by a kangaroo.

A woman in Australia needed 25 stitches to her face and almost lost an eye after being mauled by a kangaroo while walking her dog.

The attack happened near a popular walking trail in the city of Wodonga, in the state of Victoria, according to CNN affiliate 9News. Dina, who declined to share her last name, let her pet dog off its leash and it began chasing a large male kangaroo — prompting her to try to intervene.

“I ran up the embankment to try and get my dog away but not realizing that I was only three or four meters behind the roo,” Dina told 9News. “And that’s when I sensed the roo was panicking, and thinking, ‘I’m being attacked on all sides.'”

She turned around right as the kangaroo attacked her from behind, knocking her to the ground.

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The DOJ has recently released a study. Four things in common that mass shooters share.

The stereotype of a mass shooter is a white male with a history of mental illness or domestic violence. While that may be anecdotally true, the largest single study of mass shooters ever funded by the U.S. government has found that nearly all mass shooters have four specific things in common.

A new Department of Justice-funded study of all mass shootings — killings of four or more people in a public place — since 1966 found that the shooters typically have an experience with childhood trauma, a personal crisis or specific grievance, and a “script” or examples that validate their feelings or provide a roadmap. And then there’s the fourth thing: access to a firearm.

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We are all Morons here and The ONT knows you won't be offended. Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for that young child? Here ya go.

A Nerf dart gun, ice cream-scented Nickelodeon slime and a plastic Power Rangers claw are among the toys topping a consumer safety group’s list of worst toys for the holidays.

World Against Toys Causing Harm unveiled its annual list Tuesday at a Boston children’s hospital.

A realistic toy machine gun, a “pogo trick board,” a yeti teddy bear and a pull-along caterpillar toy for infants also made the list.

The Massachusetts nonprofit has been releasing the list for more than 40 years.

It says many of the products present choking, eye and other safety hazards frequently found in poorly designed toys. It also cites the products for having inconsistent and inadequate warnings labels.

The organization says the Nerf Ultra One gun, which is billed as firing soft darts up to 120 feet, shoots the projectiles with enough force to potentially cause eye injuries.

We aren't advocating for Irwin Mainway....................Yet.

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The State of California does believe in walls. No more fleeing the State of California.

SACRAMENTO, CA—California's state government has announced it will agree to build a wall as President Trump has been pushing for, except this wall will keep people in, not out.

People trying to flee the socialist state in U-Hauls in search of a better life will be greeted with a large concrete structure running across all exits from the state. Modeled after the Berlin Wall, the structure will provide comfort and security to state legislators fearful of citizens fleeing for basic necessities like electricity, taxes less than 100%, and plastic straws and bags.

The rest of the country all pitched in for the wall, too, so Governor Newsom only needed to raise income taxes by a few percentage points to fund it.

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If there is Karma. This guy might be a deserving candidate.

According to Aftonbladet, one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries, a biological male who was convicted of killing and butchering his ex-girlfriend has been approved to move to a woman’s jail facility after claiming to be transgender.

In 2013, Kristoffer Johansson, who now goes by Kim Marie, was convicted of killing and cutting up his ex-girlfriend, Expressen reported last week. Johansson recently started a “gender correction” in prison, the outlet noted, citing Aftonbladet. He alerted authorities about alleged harassment following the “correction” and submitted a request to be transferred to an all-female jail. After initially receiving a rejection of the application, Johansson has now been approved to serve out the rest of his time in a woman-only facility.

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I might live in the frozen tundra. But I don't see myself in Canada participating in the Hair Freezing Contest.

Now I’m well aware that there are some crazy contests around the world. People seem to love doing obscure things to showcase their talents or personalities. Sometimes people just enjoy throwing themselves out there into the world to find new friends and things to enjoy. I’ve heard of weird contests like extreme ironing, where contestants try to iron clothes in the craziest places such as underwater or even while jumping out of a plane. I’ve seen funny contests where people even try their best to replicate a pig’s calls and snorts. Well I came across a contest in Canada that looks like a blast. I’ve never seen anything like it before and the conditions in Whitehorse, Yukon are just perfect for this unique contest. Because temperatures can reach – 22 degrees in the winter months, people tend to stay inside. Not these people though and they have a very good reason.

They are happy to go outside because they are competing in the annual Hair Freezing Contest of Whitehorse, Canada. This event is held every February when temperatures can reach below – 22 degrees. The well-below-freezing temps combined with a dip in the 104 degree hot springs makes for one unique contest. A hair freezing contest!

And in case you're wondering. I do have a full head of hair.

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THE ONT MUSICAL INTERLUDE

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Refrain from liquor, abstain from drugs and stay the hell away from the casino. Genius Award Winner.

Mayor Domenic Sarno’s communications director tried to call the MGM casino’s president via the FaceTime app at 3 a.m. while being detained by police after allegedly vandalizing a restaurant, including plucking lemons off a tree and hurling them through the kitchen and dining room.

Marian K. Sullivan, 27, of Springfield, pleaded not guilty to malicious destruction of property in Springfield District Court Monday morning, one day after Sarno issued a media advisory announcing that he placed Sullivan on paid administrative leave following her arrest.

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Shop owner goes over and above the call of duty. Your lovable Cob wouldn't have. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A New York state bagel store clerk is being hailed as a hero after taking a 7-hour round-trip drive to return a set of keys left behind by a customer.

Diana Chong said her husband kept the car running while she popped into Bagels 101 in Middle Island to grab some coffee.

"I took my keys because I use the Bally Rewards," Chong told WPVI-TV. "I come here every morning on my way to work. And then after that, I got my bagels. I went back in the car and we drove away."

Chong said it wasn't until arriving in Honesdale, Pa., that she realized she had left the keys 180 miles away at the bagel shop. The key ring includes the fob needed to start her family vehicle.

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Close it up

Democrats' Mass Debate

—Ace of Spades

I'm only interested in hearing if Joe Biden had another incident of Perfectly Routine and Healthy Eye Bleeding -- it's just like crying for joy with your heart!

NBC: Ha-Ha, Conservatives Reported the Story about the Founder of Burisma Being "Indicted," and He Totally Wasn't
Ukranian Translator: The Press Conference Says a "Sworn Statement of Suspicion" Has Been Issued Against the Burisma Founder

—Ace of Spades

You tell me: Who's doing their best to actually report the news?

Here's the chuckleheads at NBC, who still aren't reporting this story, except as a partisan "Gotcha" about conservative websites.

A misleading claim about the head of the Ukrainian energy company at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry went viral across conservative pockets of social media Wednesday, receiving hundreds of thousands of retweets and shares from some of the president’s most ardent online supporters.

The incorrect story, first disseminated by the finance blog ZeroHedge, claimed that Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, had been indicted over money laundering related to the Biden family. Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, was previously on Burisma’s board of directors.

In fact, there was no announcement of an indictment.

But Jack Posobiec contacted a Ukranian speaker to translate the press conference that's going on right now (or went on a short time ago), and she said the prosecutor had a said a "signed notice of suspicion" had been issued.

Is that the same as an indictment?

I don't know, but I do know something about this translation problem, I think.

When I translate French stories, I almost always translate the French mis en garde as "indicted."

Does it mean "indicted"? No, it does not. The French do not follow Anglo-American law, of course, and they don't have what we'd call "indictments."

Nevertheless, mis en garde is a major investigatory step. It literally means "Put on guard/put on caution/put on notice," or something like that.

Or, as Paul Anka might say: "You're all on fuckin' notice."

Cops may have informal suspicions in a criminal case, but mis en garde is a formal step, requiring, I believe, a presentation of proof before a magistrate.

I imagine it's something like a Warrant to Open an Official Investigation or something else we don't quite have in the Anglo-American system.

But when I'm translating quickly from the French, I assume readers do not want a diversion about what mis en garde means. So I have translated it as what I take to be roughly analogous: "Indicted."

It's a major step in a prosecution. It's not an arrest -- I know the word for that -- but it is official notice that you are now under official scrutiny.

Anyway, I don't know if Ukraine's legal system. But I would imagine it fails to track perfectly with the American system, and that therefore there will be terms of art which are untranslatable.

A "signed notice of suspicion of a crime" sound a lot like "mis en garde" to me, and I've always (roughly, imperfectly) translated mis en garde as "indicted."

Maybe I'll stop that now and start saying "officially notified to be on caution of being suspected of a crime." A bit cumbersome, but more accurate.

But either way, I don't see this as the cause for juvenile cheering and backclapping that the 27 year old media ignoramuses -- who were said by their strong ally (mind-controller) Ben Rhoades to "literally know nothing" -- that NBC is engaging in.

I don't know the Ukranian language or Ukranian criminal process. I don't know what a signed suspicion of crime is. I don't know if this is a major step or a more routine one.

But here's the thing:

I'm pretty damn sure the 27 year old ignoramuses who literally know nothing don't know either, and furthermore, they don't even know what they don't know.

They almost surely do not know that foreign countries have, get this, foreign systems of criminal process and that there will be legal terms of art that simply do not translate to English.

The French "pomme" translates as "apple." We have apples in America. That translates well because we have the same thing here; we just use another word.

But what happens when there's a concept in another country which we don't have in America? How do you translate that?

BTW: I personally never said "indicted" because I couldn't find what I thought to be an authoritative source for it. And also, because I do know that the very term "indicted" may not travel well to countries outside the Anglo-American tradition.

So I'm not covering my own ass here -- I avoided this entirely.

But I am curious to see who turns out to be closer to right: rando conservative blogs, or Rape Emporium and part-time propaganda organ NBC.

I've got my suspicions -- let's just say that much.

BTW, if anyone does know what mis en garde means, precisely, do please let me know. It bothers me!

Meanwhile, Noted Russia Expert and Leftwing Lunatic Whose Cranial Humors Are Completely Unbalanced to Fuck-Hell Julia Ioffe accuses the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of being a Russian front, because... um, of a punctuation glitch.

Charles Barkley to Female Reporter: "I don't hit women but if I did, I'd hit you"

—Ace of Spades

But you say this was a reporter, huh...?

Charles Barkley has issued an apology for a comment he made to a female political reporter about hitting her.

Axios reporter Alexi McCammond wrote on Twitter Tuesday night that when she questioned Barkley on his indecisiveness over the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Barkley told her "I don't hit women but if I did I would hit you." McCammond says when she objected to his remarks, Barkley told her she "couldn't take a joke."

Ukraine Has Widened Its Investigation Into Fugitive, Wherabouts-Unknown Founder of Burisma

—Ace of Spades

"No evidence" of anything worth investigating, the media keeps telling me.

- Ukraine has widened its investigation into the founder of energy company Burisma to include suspicion of embezzling state funds, Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka said on Wednesday.

...

The prosecutor who has investigated Burisma is Kostiantyn Kulyk, who previously met Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to discuss accusations against the Bidens.

After he took office in late August, Ryaboshapka launched a wide-ranging audit of criminal cases to see whether they had been conducted properly. Thirteen of them relate to Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky, Ryaboshapka told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday.

"No evidence" of corruption at Burisma. No substantiation for any allegation and hence no reason to be suspicious or to want investigations.

None at all.

Apparently he's a fugitive.

Nothing to see here. No reason to investigate.

"No evidence" of any corruption.
Apart, that is, from all the evidence.

The media is fond of claiming that there's no evidence that Ukraine interfered with US elections.

But this report from December 12, 2018, notes that a Ukranian court ruled that Ukranian officials had interfered in the US elections of 2016... against Trump.

Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election

MOSCOW -- A court in Ukraine has ruled that officials in the country violated the law by revealing, during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, details of suspected illegal payments to Paul Manafort.

In 2016, while Mr. Manafort was chairman of the Trump campaign, anti-corruption prosecutors in Ukraine disclosed that a pro-Russian political party had earmarked payments for Mr. Manafort from an illegal slush fund. Mr. Manafort resigned from the campaign a week later.

What right-wing, fringe fake-news Trumpist conspiracy site is that from?

Well, it's from the best right-wing, fringe fake-news Trumpist conspiracy site: The New York Times.

And of course most are familiar with this fake-news conspiracy theory from the right-wing Trumpalo site Politico:

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire

Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton.

Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.

Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton's allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.

A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort's resignation...

More accurate phrasing would be, "engineering Manafort's resignation."

...and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine's foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia's alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.

That's some CYA liberal spin.

They're trying to minimize Ukraine's meddling to support the narrative that OMG TRUMP RUSSIA COLLUSION.

But Ukraine directly "meddled," working with Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Yet even after minimizing Ukrainian meddling, Politiico has to report they did, in fact, interfere with our elections, in ways that sovereign nations usually do not find acceptable:

...

Yet Politico's investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another's elections.

Russia's meddling has sparked outrage from the American body politic....

But only Russia's.

Because the media and the DNC are one and the same.

When Ukraine meddles on behalf of Hillary Clinton, working with DNC official Alexandria Chalupa, the media and "American body politic" says "no big deal."

It's not that Russian meddling is different than Ukranian meddling.

It's that who was claimed to have benefit is different. The media are outraged that anyone tried to help Trump; but they're very understanding about a foreign country subverting our precious elections for Hillary.

A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort (pictured) and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
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The Ukrainian antipathy for Trump’s team -- and alignment with Clinton's -- can be traced back to late 2013....

Manafort's work for Yanukovych caught the attention of a veteran Democratic operative named Alexandra Chalupa, who had worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton administration. Chalupa went on to work as a staffer, then as a consultant, for Democratic National Committee. The DNC paid her $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016, according to Federal Election Commission records, though she also was paid by other clients during that time, including Democratic campaigns and the DNC's arm for engaging expatriate Democrats around the world.

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She occasionally shared her findings with officials from the DNC and Clinton’s campaign, Chalupa said. In January 2016 -- months before Manafort had taken any role in Trump’s campaign -- Chalupa told a senior DNC official that, when it came to Trump's campaign, "I felt there was a Russia connection," Chalupa recalled....

She said she shared her concern with Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Valeriy Chaly, and one of his top aides, Oksana Shulyar, during a March 2016 meeting at the Ukrainian Embassy.

...

The day after Manafort's hiring was revealed, she briefed the DNC's communications staff on Manafort, Trump and their ties to Russia, according to an operative familiar with the situation.

So let's sum up:

A Ukranian-American operative got dirt from Ukranian officials about Paul Manafort, who they were at political war with for having done a deal with a politician who was pro-Russian.

This Ukranian-American operative cooks up the "RUSSIAN COLLUSION" narrative, and spreads it to the DNC and to Hillary Clinton.

As always, I have to mention this operative partnered up with another leftwing conspiracy theorist. NeverTrumpers never mention him, of course, but then, they also never mentioned him in the past, either.

Now, this RUSSIAN COLLUSION conspiracy theory is taken so seriously by the liberal cadre that dominates the federal government as thoroughly as the leftwing dominates college administrations that they actually spy on two officials tangentially related to a presidential campaign precisely so they can use the two-hop rule to spy on Trump's communications.

The threat of foreign interference, they thought, was so serious that it justified spying on an actual presidential candidate during an election.

The threat of foreign interference was so serious, they further thought, that it justified the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC paying a foreign spy (Steele) and giving him money with which he would pay Russian intelligence assets and informers for dirt.

So yeah: Hillary and the DNC paid, indirectly but inarguably, Russians for information.

And meanwhile, Obama used official government means against Trump.

All necessary, we're told, because the threat of RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE was just that serious.

So now Trump sees multiple news reports about direct Ukranian interference, interference itself admitted to by Ukraine, and he asks Ukraine to get to the bottom of it.

And, I'm sure, he wants to send the signal: Further interference by a foreign country in our elections will not be tolerated and may result in some official penalties.

You know -- like the official penalties Obama and then Trump imposed on Russia for interfering.

And now the same people who told us that the threat of foreign interference was so intolerable that it justified Obama lying to FISA courts to spy on a presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton bankrolling actual Russian covert operatives for dirt... say that asking Ukraine investigate its own interference is... illegal and impeachable?!

More "No Evidence" From JackStraw:

Why nobody mentions that Nellie Ohr testified under oath to Congress that Fusion GPS was getting dirt directly from Ukraine is a mystery to me.

It's not contestable. It's direct sworn testimony.

Posted by: JackStraw

Doc_Zero/John Hayward: The Media Is Going Full Orwell to Protect Their Narrative That Only Trump Ever Put "Kids In Cages"

—Ace of Spades

We have always been at war with Oceana, and we'll delete any prior news articles saying otherwise.

His post is about AFP's falsely claiming that 2015 numbers about the number of migrant children "kept in cages" was about Trump.

When it was pointed out that these were Obama's numbers, not Trump's, the AP did not correct -- they deleted the story entirely, memory-holed it, obliterated it from the public record.

Breaking: DNA Test Establishes That the Baby Hunter Biden Denies Is His Is In Fact His

—Ace of Spades

A guy who lies and lies and denies the paternity of his child certainly would never use his political connections to Pappy Biden to grift favors for the company paying his unqualified ass $80,000 per month.

DNA testing has established, "with scientific certainty," that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Independence County on behalf of the child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts.

Biden, son of former vice president Joe Biden, "is not expected to challenge the results of the DNA test or the testing process," the filing states.

A friend snarks: "They way they could tell paternity was that the baby was also on the board of a number of Ukraine gas companies."

Can't wait for the great moralizers on the Fake Conservative (actual liberal establishment) right to explain to us why this is no big deal and says nothing about Hunter Biden's character nor of Joe Biden's.

I don't know anything about this source, but an outfit calling itself Interfax claims that Ukranian MPs are demanding that the US investigate a shady financier who they say has connections to the US Democrat Party.

At a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Wednesday, MP Andriy Derkach announced that deputies have received new materials from investigative journalists about international corruption and the participation of Ukrainian officials in it.

"Last week, November 14, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), unnoticed by the media, announced a new suspicion to the notorious owner of Burisma, ex-Ecology Minister Zlochevsky. According to the suspicion, the Yanukovych family is suspected, in particular, with legalizing (laundering) of criminally obtained income through Franklin Templeton Investments, an investment fund carrying out purchases of external government loan bonds totaling $7.4 billion," Derkach said.

Ukrainian members of parliament have demanded the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, investigate suspicions of the legalization of $7.4 billion by the "family" of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through the American investment fund Franklin Templeton Investments, which they said has ties to the U.S. Democratic Party.

They say further that Templeton Investments spirited away $16.5 million into different secret accounts, notably including an account in the name of one Hunter Biden.

Twitter has already suspended an BreakingNews account which tweeted out this story.

Build your own internet, peons. Meanwhile we'll be here in DC, sucking millions from Google and mega-corporations, throwing champagne and caviar parties every month with our Free Money and talking up "old-fashioned roll-up-your-sleeves hard-workin' conservatism."

Ever notice that all of the strident propagandists for alleged Free Market Corporatism themselves have only the most tangential and hypothetical experience with actual capitalism?

They're sucking money from gifts cadged out of older people who have been tricked into thinking these people are pushing conservatism, rather than liberal-leaning archlibertarianism. As well as barely-disguised bribes from Google, Koch, etc.

What does this have to do with actually earning money, cash-for-services, cash-for-product?

These people all seem to admire capitalism -- from a safe distance, you understand.

They certainly appreciate the capitalist spirit, in others.

But for this gang of gold-plated mediocrities themselves, it's Donor Class Communism all the way. Those dinners and junkets and parties aren't going to pay for themselves.

I think it should be a rule that these High Priests of Archlibertarianism must disclose, yearly, precisely when their last contact with the capitalist system actually occurred.

For a huge swathe of them, the answer will be either "Never" or "When I was working at a Dairy Queen in junior year of high school."

When was the last time these fake-ass "libertarian capitalists" worked for an organization whose cash-flow was not generated by a mixture of beggary and bribery?

Update: 10x25mm says this about Interfax:

Interfax Ukraine is the Ukrainian operating arm of Interfax, an independent Russian news agency. Interfax Russia was associated, to some extent, with Boris Yeltsin after he rescued them from attacks by the CPSU during its final days of power.

The owner of Interfax is Mikhail Vitalivich Kommisar, who maintains a vanishingly low profile for security reasons. He is not held in high regard by the current powers in Russia.

Interfax does have a major partnership with Moody's Investors Services providing financial information on former USSR entities called SPARK.

Oh, Dear: In Crucial Battleground Wisconsin, Support for Impeachment Falls 4%, and Trump Now Leads... The Entire Democrat Field

—Ace of Spades

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

In October, 44% of Wisconsin voters supported impeachment, and 51% opposed it. Now 40% support impeachment, and 53% oppose it.

And he's now beating Biden in Wisconsin 47-44. In October, he was losing to Biden 50-44.

In October, Trump was losing to Sanders 48-46. Now he's beating Sanders 48-45.

Even Warren was beating Trump in October, per this poll, 47-46. Now Trump is beating her 48-43.

Trump was leading Buttigieg, barely, in October, 45-43. Now he's expanded that lead to 47-39.

Don't get complacent, though: I've been repeatedly informed by NeverTrump and the left (but I repeat myself) that Trump would Literally Blow Up the Earth in his first term. That's obviously going to put a crimp in his polling.

Gonna be hard to spin a Blowed-Up Earth, if I'm being honest. Hard to come up with a Positive Take.

I mean, if I just lift from the National Review stylebook, I could say "Two Cheers for the Destruction of the Entire Planet," and talk about all the upside, while including one to-be-sure caveat sentence about why it's kind of bad for Conservative Values that all of humanity is now dead.

But hey -- lower tariffs!!!!

Claim: Other Officers Confirm LTC Hickman's Charge That Vindman Was Reprimanded For Misbehaving With the Enemy

—Ace of Spades

This is "unsbustantiated," which now means "It's been substantiated by people who actually want to cover the story and not just bury it, but the leftwing propaganda media is going to keep on lying and claiming there's no substantiation."

Carter's reporting tracks with Deb Heine's reporting. Heine also found men who served with Hickman and Vindman who remember Vindman being reprimanded for disparaging America and Americans with his very good Russian pals.

Wall Street Journal: Google Is Blacklisting Conservative News Sites, Despite Denials Made Under Oath

—Ace of Spades

Reported by the Daily Mail, which recapitulates the WSJ reporting. (The WSJ is behind that annoying paywall.)

Google 'DOES blacklist sites, has targeted conservative news sites and changes its algorithms to favour big businesses,' claims new report - despite the tech giant's denials

The Wall Street Journal claims Google has been blacklisting sites

It also claims that conservative publications have been blacklisted

The WSJ claims that Google made algorithmic changes in favour big businesses over smaller ones including on behalf of a major advertiser, eBay

They claim the blacklist policy instructs engineers, known as 'maintainers', to focus on sites that actively aim to mislead

A Google spokesperson said the company does 'not manually determine the order of any search result'

...

The WSJ report also claims that Google made algorithmic changes to its search results that favour big businesses over smaller ones, and in at least one case made changes on behalf of eBay, which is a major advertiser.

The company also boosts some major websites, such as Amazon and Facebook in search results, according to people familiar with the matter.

Google's engineers have also created blacklists to weed out more-incendiary suggestions in auto-complete, the feature that predicts search terms as the user types a query - particularly those relating to controversial subjects such as abortion or immigration.

The WSJ compared Duckduckgo and Google autocomplete results in Joe Biden, and found that 'creepy' was suggested every time by the former but never by Google.

Here's an example of that: I just googled "John Solomon" to find his most recent reporting, and his own blog, JohnSolomonReports.com.

Google answered my query with a page full of media hits on Solomon -- including from the ostensibly-authoritative trash website Daily Beast -- attacking his credibility.

The link to his actual blog did not appear on the first page of results. Frustrated, I opened Bing and searched there.

They do this deliberately. They claim "it's the algorithm," but the algorithm is made -- and repeatedly tweaked and biased -- by intentional human action.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"1. These hearings are just the culmination of a process that the Democrats started on or about the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. At that time, the whistleblower's leaker's attorney, Mark Zaid, said "the coup has started." And other Democrats have similarly been calling for impeachment from day And this was before Trump had done anything at all, let alone anything impeachable. It's like the crime was pre-determined, and now they're trying to figure out which one it is.

"2. Turns out that the Democrats have been focus-group testing their impeachment strategy. This is probably why the grounds for impeachment have been shifting from "quid pro quo" to obstruction of justice to bribery and extortion. The Democrats are switching the grounds for impeachment in and out so fast, I think I'm going to sue Adam Schiff for whiplash.

"Oh, and Trump should be impeached for undermining long-standing foreign policy put in place by, I don't know, career diplomats. That's a good one.

"4. Impeachment really should be bipartisan thing. But the Democrats haven't been able to peel off one, not one, Republican to stand with them on impeaching Trump. This is actually quite remarkable. They couldn't get even the squishiest RINOs to going along with this. This is an entirely 100% Democratic operation. And it's really funny to see how surly progressives are about this on social media. They keep saying things like "they just worship Trump", "they're all part of the Trump cult" and "it's sad that apparently not one Republican cares about facts and reality." They like to hammer that last point a lot. Oh, those poor blind Republicans. Trump is walking out of the Oval Office with all of the furniture and huge bags of cash with dollar signs imprinted on them and they can't even see it. Of course, the reason for the unyielding Republican intransigence is that they actually can see obvious facts: they know when a man is being railroaded when they see it. They know that Trump's only crime has been that he got elected.

"Lastly, if you want to talk about being oblivious to reality, I would say that it is the Democrats who are oblivious -- oblivious to the damage they're causing our political institutions and the rule of law. Impeachment was meant to be a last resort remedy, but by their constant shrieking of "impeachment!", the Democrats have turned it into just another campaign strategy. They have significantly lowered the bar as to what constitutes an impeachable offense. Heck, everything Trump does going forward that they don't like will be an impeachable offense.

"Of course, it's not going to work, and then they're going to be faced with the possibility that next election, or the one after, the institutions that they've weaponized to use against Trump will be turned around and used against them."

First we were told Trump broke campaign finance law. That was a dud. Next came “quid pro quo” for defense money. That was false. Then Democrats rolled out “bribery” because it polled well. That fizzled.

Today’s “high crime?” Trump didn’t give a foreigner a meeting at the WH.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 20, 2019

You Can Just Smell the Desperation:

If you attack Lt Col Vindman, or allow him to be attacked, you are a traitor.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 19, 2019

Gotta Get One More Fart Joke In:

Democrat Finally Releases Something Of Substance https://t.co/0tuCb2zrir

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 19, 2019

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Monday's Celebs: Hammer Films 'scream queen' Ingrid Pitt, and English actor Edward Woodward, who incidentally, has a pretty decent singing voice. Both were in the cult classic 1973 film, The Wicker Man.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com), as I will be filling in for Fenelon Spoke on the prayer list, for the next 1-2 months while Fenelon recuperates. If you could include the words “prayer request” in the subject of the email, that will help me distinguish it from spam emails.

If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, please feel free to copy and paste it and email it to me.

Updates and new requests:

10/23 - HB requests prayers for “Tikvah” for healing from serious infection of diabetic foot wounds.

10/24 - Cybersmythe requests prayers for his son, who is scheduled to have brain surgery on November 20 to ease his seizures.

10/30 - BW requests prayers for Officer Urbano Rodriguez Jr of the Denton Police Department in Texas. He was shot in the head and leg during a routine traffic stop. He is in critical but stable condition.

11/3 - Chique has offered to help rickl, who lives nearby and is dealing with cancer, if rickl could use any assistance. Rickl, if you are okay with that, please send me (Annie’s Stew) your email address and I will pass it along to chique.

11/5 - Pooky and Pooky’s girl have had a major setback in the process to become adoptive parents. Pooky’s former therapist refused to sign the recommendation form, and now their social worker wants them to withdraw from the program. They ask for prayers as they try to figure out how to move forward.

11/18 - ibguy requests prayers for healing for Jenna, the daughter of a friend and colleague, a wonderful young mother with a very serious case of MS.

11/18 - ibguy also requests prayers for healing and a return to childhood for Elena, the grand-niece of a co-worker. Elena is a 2 ½ year old girl with serious cancer/tumor, who has been in a hospital most of her life.

11/18 - ibguy requests prayers for healing and direction for his mother-in-law, Marilyn, who is 86 years old and was in a bad car accident. Marilyn is transitioning from rehab to Assisted Living.

Praise reports:

10/17 - sock_rat_eez sends thanks for all the prayers! His pre-surgery tests went well and he is hoping for the same for the mid-November tests, so surgery can take place before Christmas!

Requests for continued prayer:
For healing from cancer:

- OldDog’sinMo’s wife, Slapweasel (also for an organ donor) and strength in caring for elderly parents with have memory and other issues, Cheribee, also Tami’s daughter, Circa’s brother,

- VNRedLeg, Scott M., Fox 2!’s friend, Mary Beth for healing from bladder cancer, Mother of a co-worker of Josephistan , Rickl-healing from cancer-he has an additional lesion and numbness in back area, Suzanne’s friend Kevin-told that he has six months to live-is praying for a miracle.

- For Laura who has metastastic breast cancer and told she has 3 years to live. Flounder’s MIL, continued healing from cancer.

9/25 - Update from VNRedLeg - “Still on Luprin for my cancer. 9 weeks of radiation begins in Dec. Next PSA and blood tests 1 Nov. In the meantime had surgery for a distal bicep tendon tear (R arm) and emergency eye surgery for vitreous hemorrhage (R eye). Very grateful for your prayers!”

Other continuing health issues and requested prayers for healing:

- Fixeupperupper’s mothers-kidney function.

- Michelle’s son- continued recovery from car accident.

- Sock-rat-eez, thanks that recovery is going really well, the medical guys have released me from treatment for the dangerous embolisms that occurred during my emergency surgery back in February, so the path is clear to the next step; the surgical team wants a colonoscopy to get a look at things in there before the reversal. Nothing scheduled yet, but hopefully soon.

- USNTakin and wife-he asked particularly that she have relief from pain, but strength and relief from pain for both of them.

- For Allison- in her 30’s-for complete healing after a stroke after having a baby.

- For healing for Josephistan’s mom who has difficulty with daily tasks and is anxious and withdrawn. Also strength for him caring for his mom as he is alone in doing this. Help in finding a caregiver. He also needs job help.

- Hrothgar’s SIL, for diabetes related neuropathy.

- Poster ET going through a difficult time.

- Beltway Elite’s mother-recovery while in recovery from stroke.

- Hrothgar’s friend, a hospice counselor who needs healing after being affected by fumes from muriatic acid.

- Healing for Blaster’s son who has issues with depression.

- 10/17 for continued blessings on sock_rat_eez’ medical condition and care.

- 10/17 LR has pneumonia, and could use prayers for healing.

Job needs and concerns:

- Emperor County Boy asked for prayers for wisdom and guidance and direction in his job search and in other areas.

- Donna&&&& needs FT job in areas of expertise

- PDX Republican needs sedentary PT job.

- Insomniac has been in touch with a company about receiving some work in his field. Please continue to pray for him in this endeavor that this does indeed work out for him as there have been many false starts and dead ends.

- Anonymous poster needs prayers for more work and rough places made smooth.

Wednesdays are days in which mothers in the horde and anyone else says special prayers for children of horde members. Please include the grandchildren as well.

Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after five weeks or so unless we receive an update.

This in NOT because we don’t care; It’s simply because of lack of space. Updates as well as thanks for answered prayer and new prayer requests are always welcome. Please feel free to copy requests which you see on the board and send them to apaslo@hotmail.com. I won’t know unless someone tells me! Thank you and God bless!

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:
http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm

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Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

—CBD

Et in Arcadia ego
Nicolas Poussin

Nicholas Poussin was one of the most influential painters of the Baroque era. While other Baroque artists were composing art with dramatic forms and lighting, vivid, radiant color, and huge action, Poussin’s art is quiet scenes of heavy classicism. “Poussinisme” would come to describe art that emphasizes form over color, with clean lines and defined pictorial regions, and compositions that appealed to the mind rather than the heart or emotions. His style would define French tastes for almost a century, until the rise of Rococo.

This work is a pastoral, artworks in idyllic landscapes that a viewer is supposed to just enjoy. The subjects are usually shepherds who while away their days playing their pan flutes or lutes, or just relax, while their animals graze in lush, green fields. Arcadia was an area in ancient Greece where Pan, the god of herds, lived, so an “Arcadia” in art is a pastoral located in ancient Greece.

In “Et in Arcadia Ego”, we see three male shepherds and one female figure. The males crowd around a large stone object that just sits on a rise in the middle of this landscape. It is engraved with the work’s title, which translates to: “I am also in Arcadia.” They think about this when a woman appears. She is not with the men because her clothes and body language are different, and the men seem to defer to her. Usually artists will use attributes to identify their figures so audiences don’t have to guess. Poussin has left her identification ambiguous. Many scholars I’ve read believe she is a goddess.

The woman is tall and statuesque. One hand is on her hip while she gently rest the other on the back of the red shepherd. No emotion shows on her face. If she is a goddess then Poussin is adhering to the Classical trait of aloofness in the gods. She seems to listen patiently to their questions about the object and its meaning.

The color palette is subdued here except in the cloaks of the three central figures. This immediately draws our attention to them. Each figure wears one of the primary colors for further emphasis. Of these three, I think the two on the right, dressed in red and yellow, are the most important. The two most vivid colors right next to each other radiate in the neutral browns and tans surrounding them. These figures are opposites: male and female, body and spirit, confusion and confidence, bent over and standing straight, ignorance and knowledge, emotion and rationality. I think Poussin might be acknowledging the two sides of human existence, but is placing importance on rationality and knowledge and saying that they are found in the Divine.

The goddess is almost mirrored by the young man in tan on the very left. Unlike his friends, he doesn’t examine the inscription closely. Instead it seems as though he realizes its implication, accepts its truth, and is saddened by it. His world isn’t what he thought it was. I think the drab color in his outfit may be a reflection of his mood. I also like that, while he is standing while his friend crouch, he is still not as straight or tall as the goddess. This emphasizes her authority and importance further.

The painting is laid out like a scene in a play. Everything is centered and right up front. The gestures are clear and the figures are very well-defined. The landscape is like a painted backdrop in a play. It establishes that Arcadia is truly paradise—beautiful, with green fields and picturesque mountains that stretch as far as the eye can see. But in the center of it all, mounted on a rise for all to see, is the object and its inscription. Its meaning cannot be ignored.

The Morning Report - 11/20/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Wednesday and for those of us living in the real world, the Democrats' case for impeaching and removing Trump from office collapsed like a wet pierogi yesterday when its star witness, the puffy Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman (in service of whose army he wears the uniform for still a topic for debate). I'll get to the particulars in a second but really, the most important thing to keep in mind that makes any and all of this utterly irrelevant is the transcript of the phone call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky was released about two weeks ago and there is nothing that was said that could even be remotely construed as an impeachable offense. Unlike the REO-Speedwagon-heard-it-from-a-friend-who-heard-it-from-a-friend mid level bureaucrats, traitors and flunkies who are just out and out liars with axes to grind, Lt. General Keith Kellog, who is Mike Pence's national security advisor was actually on the call and has confirmed zero impropriety. Period. Full stop.

But, for those still keen on fabulists, Majorette Bearclaw's testimony included admitting, much that it pained him to say so, that the President makes policy and it is not incumbent upon him to do what the State Dept. or others want, this after going to the NSC to bitch and moan about disagreeing with the President's Ukraine policy. Can you say "insubordination?" He claimed that he advised the Ukrainian President not to trust the Russians, despite later admitting that he never had a private one-on-one with him. In any case it would be funny if he did say something so moronic considering Russia had already annexed Crimea, and who the hell is this fat sack of lipids to give advice to anyone? He also claimed he heard the word "Burisma" mentioned on the call despite not being on the transcript but that that was not a significant omission (pfft!) and conceded that Hunter Biden had zero qualifications for the alleged position he held at that company and most crucially that despite not knowing who the alleged "whistleblower" is gave a very distinct impression that he, Vindman, was a key source of information in the actual whistleblower complaint. And that's when Schiff-for-Brains started banging the gavel like a crack-addicted chimpanzee playing drums for the Evolution Revolution.

Later on, it was the turn of former diplomat Kurt Volker to look like a jackass courtesy of Rep. Mike Turner:

..."So I get to ask you. You had a meeting with the President of the United States, and you believe that the policy issues he raised concerning Ukraine were valid, correct?"

"Yes," Volker said.

"Did the President of the United States ever say to you that he was not going to allow aid from the United States to go to the Ukraine unless there were investigations into Burisma, the Bidens, or the 2016 elections?" Turner asked.

"No, he did not," Volker said.

Turner then asked, "Did the Ukrainians ever tell you that they understood that they would not get a meeting with the President of the United States, a phone call with the President of the United States, military aid, or foreign aid from the United States unless they undertook investigations of Burisma, the Bidens, or the 2016 elections?"

"No, they did not," Volker said.

Turner noted that Volker's answers essentially dismantled the Democrats' entire case for impeaching Trump.

"Pretty much, Ambassador Volker, you just, like, took apart their entire case," Turner said.

So, okay. So far all of the so-called "star witnesses" who we were assured had the smoking gun evidence to remove Trump from office have only made the Democrats and the Media look like the real criminals in the eyes of the American people. More and more are finding this whole thing to be a sham and a hit job to take out Trump. This is turning into a titanic disaster for the Democrats no matter how you slice it. If they do impeach him in the House, which I am sure they are going to have to do, there is no way in hell the Senate will vote to convict. Even if you got a few of the probable defectors to vote with the Dems, the end result is Trump will have been found innocent in a trial, and that is a political disaster for Palsi and the party. Probably, it's a worse disaster than if she pulls the plug and enrages her base.

Beyond the politics of all this is the fact that individuals like Vindman, Volker, Yovanovitch as well as the other names we've come to know and loathe like Page, Strzok, McCabe, Ohr and all the rest represent a cancer on the republic. Vindman's actions and attitude underscore their belief that they control the direction of the nation, and not the people or the politicians they elect for a few years at a stretch. In the case of the State Department and the Intelligence Community, given all we have learned over the past three years and longer, America's national security would not be affected negatively in any significant way if the CIA, NSA and the State Dept. were simply abolished. In fact, you could argue that it would improve. And what of all the other federal agencies and departments that control our lives and issue edicts and rules that have the full effect of law, despite the fact that none of the people issuing them have ever been elected and its damned near impossible to fire them? Collectively, they have the same damned attitude of Vindman. It's a fatal conceit that is already having dire consequences on the body politic.

SHAM-PEACHMENT FOLLIES

• Backfire: Vindman Admits Hunter Biden Seemed Unqualified for Burisma Role
  
• War Heroes Bash Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman: "Operative," "Disgrace"
  
• VP Pence's NSA Lt. Gen Keith Kellogg Was on Trump-Zelensky Call: Nothing Wrong or Improper
  
• 7 Key Moments from Doughboy Vindman's Public Impeachment Testimony
  
• Volker, Morrison Testimony Completely Vindicate Trump, Destroy Democrat Case For Impeachment
  
• GOP Rep. Turner to Volker: You "Took Apart" the Democrats' "Entire Case" for Impeaching Trump
  
• Schiff-for-Brains Stops Witness From Testifying to "Protect Whistleblower" He Says He Doesn't Know
  
• Nunes' Opening Statement: Media are "Puppets for the Democratic Party"
  
• John Ratcliffe: Here's How Many Times Impeachment Witnesses Have Even Mentioned "Bribery"... "Zero"
  
• President Trump Never Impounded Even One Dollar from Ukraine Aid
  
• Poll: Independents' Opposition to Impeachment Jumps 10 Points in Week
  
• GOP Sen. Kennedy: Impeachment Proceedings Look Like Kavanaugh Hearing "Without the Vagina Hats"
  
• Cocaine Mitch Believes It Is "Inconceivable" That Trump Will Be Removed From Office
  
• Does Doughboy Vindman Have a Ukraine Interest Beyond Foreign Policy?
  
• The Televised Impeachment Proceedings Have Been a Disaster For Democrats
  
• Goodwin: Why Dems Are So Worried After Latest Round of Impeachment Hearings
  
• Black: Americans Should Demand an End to This Impeachment Absurdity

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
  Meanwhile, the connections between the Ukraine-gate sham-peachment and the Russian collusion coup attempt are becoming clearer, and will loom larger as Barr, Durham and Horowitz finally reveal all. And the last link underscores the tail end of my opening editorial.

• Memo Given To Fusion GPS Described Ukrainian Lawmaker As Potential "Conduit" For Publicizing Information
  
• The Inside Story of How America's Intelligence Agencies Tried To Undo Trump's Election

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  Meh, with a GOP not even running candidates, why even waste the money?

• Dem Mega-Donor Michael Bills Accused of "Quid Pro Quo" in Virginia

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  To the border we go where Al "Not-Let's-Stay-Together" Green shows his complete lack of intelligence, agitprop media retracts story meant to smear Trump with the record of Obama, and the reason the Chamber of Commerce loves them some open borders.

• "It's a Civil Offense": Al Green (D)-Olt Falsely Claims Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime
  
• Multiple Propaganda Outlets Retract Stories After Realizing Report Actually Cites How Many Children Obama Administration Detained
  
• Why Rich People Love Poor Immigrants

  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  Abject brown-shirt thuggery at SUNY Binghamton where conservative students are attacked by Leftists and the campus does nothing except blame the victims, a look at the looming Civil War 2.0, and sick Florida woman gets slap on the wrist for attacking Matt Gaetz. She could have easily done a James Hodgkinson, but then the gun-grabbers would be shoving our noses in it.

• Trump Supporters At Binghamton University Travel In "Packs" For Safety After Being Mobbed By Leftists
  
• A Republic, But Only If We Can Keep It
  
• Florida Woman Gets 15-Day Sentence for Assault on GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM
  The Lutheran church has been coopted and although I agree with Ms. Pipko, unfortunately, the fact is most American Jews left Judaism and converted to Democrat-Leftist as their religion.

• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America... and its Stance on Israel
  
• Elizabeth Pipko: It's Time For Jewish-Americans To Leave the Democrat Party

  POLITICS
  Steve Bullock who is polling in negative numbers does a rhetorical Tawana Brawley on his face, DNC tells Politico no fighting in the war room, Democrats still wailing and rending cloth over 2016, Maizie Hirohito is a detestable slag, and we can expect more apologies from Doomberg if he fancies any chance to run as a Democrat.

• Steve Bullock Features "Lock Him Up" Chant In 2020 Campaign Ad, Doesn't Say What Crime He Thinks Trump Committed
  
• DNC to Politico: We Can't Have a Debate at Our Debates
  
• Three Years On, Democrats Are Still Crying
  
• Daughter of Child Pimp Maizie Hirohito: "White Nationalism Permeates Trump Administration; He Should Resign"
  
• Coming Soon: Bloomberg Apologies for Everything Else He Died Right as Mayor

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  PayPal no longer servicing PornHub.

• PayPal Severs Ties with PornHub

  ABORTION
  Pro-Life legal eagles to help David Daleidin to appeal case and Steve Bullock yet again, this time flip-flopping on abortion.

• Pro-Life Legal Team to Fight Back After Planned Parenthood Wins $1.3M in Sting Videos Case
  
• Pro-Abortion Democrat Montana Governor Backs Away From Democrat Litmus Test On Abortion

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Mullahs mobilize Farsi Gestapo to suppress massive rioting, US deploys more troops as a reaction and unlike Obama 10 years ago, Trump should be vocally supporting the Iranian people. That regime has got to go and better we should help the people to dump the Mullahs now. Over in Hong Kong, the Chi-Coms have begun arresting protesters who apparently are taking to the sewers to evade the blockade, of course the EU chief blasts Pompeo and the US' new policy on Israeli settlements, another essay on Deep State State Dept. sabotage, time to dump Qatar, three links on the Chi-Com concentration camps and ethnic cleansing of Uighurs, and the resurgence with a vengeance of Joo-hatred courtesy of our so-called global intellectual elite.

• Iran Mobilizes Half a Million Paramilitary Fighters to Suppress Protests
  
• US Deploys Additional Troops to Middle East to Counter Iran
  
• Suddenly, Iran is Aflame with Protest
  
• Time to Support the Iranian Protesters
  
• Besieged Hong Kong Protesters Resort to Daring Sewer Escapes
  
• EU Foreign Policy Chief Repudiates Pompeo on Legality of Israeli Settlements; Silent on Iran Protests
  
• Beware of Washington's Foreign Policy Establishment Blob
  
• Terror-Funding Qatar Once Again Proves It Is Not America's Friend
  
• Leaked Xinjiang Papers Confirm the Chinese Communist Party Is Full of Lying Murderers
  
• Soft Genocide: The Future Of Xinjiang
  
• Americans Need to Stop Funding the Chinese Gulag
  
• An Ancient Enemy, Reconfigured: On Resurgent anti-Semitism, and its Intellectual Roots

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  Meh, Bill and Hillary sold us out 25 years ago.

• Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China and Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  I love Trump and even with the impeachment and other assaults on him, I wish he could do something about this. In fact, smaller government is in his and our best interest all the way around. Lastly, more naked IRS guys with the glass of wine in the Vegas jacuzzi.

• Spending for First 2.5 Years of Trump Admin: 13% Higher Than Same Period Under Obama
  
• Feds Hosted Meditation, Massage and Social Justice Retreat For 450 Employees, Including IRS Workers

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  Trump puts screws to Chi-Coms to get them to do that trade deal, Powell and Trump lock horns, but nicely, and this "Move to Amend" is an outright Marxist seizing of the means of production.

• Trump Says He Will Hike China Tariffs If There Is No Deal
  
• Fed Chief Powell and the President Confer But Don't Concur
  
• Could "Move to Amend" Destroy Corporate Independence?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  Epstein's guards at the MCC arrested for doing what they were told by those who assisted his suicide, London cops giving out stabbing first aid kits to pubs in light of knife attack epidemic and the anarchists and their anti-prison and anti-punishment madness and what it has brought and will bring.

• Epstein Prison Guards Arrested for Failing to Check on Him
  
• London Police Give Bars Bleed Control Kits Due to Numerous Knife Crimes
  
• Anti-Prison Anarchy is Spreading: It's Way Beyond "Soft on Crime"

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  Dems read from Shit That Jefferson Said, Volume 2 which is funny considering how they vilify him as a cracker slave owner, UVA shamed into reinstating 21-gun salute and on the Marxist brainwashing of the academy.

• Dem Rep Celebrates Education Week by Tweeting Fake Jefferson Quote
  
• University of Virginia Reinstates Veterans Day 21-Gun Salute: "We Made a Mistake"
  
• Education Is Not About Your "Lived Reality"

  HEALTHCARE
  Two about this Medicare-for-All disaster.

• Fauxcahontas Relies on Rationing in Medicare for All Plan
  
• "Medicare for All" and the Free Market

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  Wolfgang Puck serves up some truth for Hollywood climate hypocrites.

• Famed Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck Slams Celebrities For Hypocrisy On Climate Change

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  You knew this was bound to happen, and they don't want equality; they want you punished and subjugated.

• Transgender Convicted Killer To Be Transferred To Female Prison
  
• The Menace of LGBTQ Bigots

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  ACLU giving me a nosebleed, Christian Toto on Dennis Miller's reaction to Charlie's Anals flopping, a warning to those who donate to museums and colleges, another look at this Chesa Boudin character, and finally, what we are witnessing all over the place is a result of the rejection of the Globalist plan.

• ACLU Celebrates International Men's Day: "Men Who Get Their Periods Are Men"
  
• Toto: Dennis Miller on Angels Flop - We Don't Wanna Be Scolded
  
• Donors Beware
  
• Prager: Does the Left Hate America?
  
• Radical Son: The Rise of Chesa Boudin
  
• Freedom Is on the March, and the Elites Can't Stand It

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/19/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

"You know, sometimes politicians who are stuck in Washington, and don't take the time to get out, don't get out to where real people live and play and work, they lose touch with the reality of where the heartbeat of our country is," she told a crowd at a recent campaign rally. "The heartbeat of our country, it's certainly not in Washington, D.C. The heartbeat of our country is in rooms like this. In communities like yours all across this country, standing up and saying it is time now for our voices to be heard." Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)

Quote II

People are excited about Buttigieg. He's fresh, he's new. He's gay. He's a serviceman. He served in Afghanistan. He's married, and a very, I mean unless you are a homophobe, he's married in a very traditional marriage, you know? Totally monogamous, and that should appeal to the silent majority, whoever they are. Joy Behar

Quote III

For generations, our community has been fed empty promises by Democratic candidates who pledged to fight for minorities and help the African-American community, only to ignore us after rising to power. Herman Cain

Quote IV

If a gay man doesn’t want to have sex with someone who has a vagina and a lesbian doesn’t want to have sex with someone who has a dick, they are not being transphobic. They’re being — how shall I put this? — gay. Andrew Sullivan

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Hillary Clinton Nacho President. And her "foundation" is hemorrhaging like the stuck pig she is.

This is evidenced nowhere more in the fact that the Clinton Foundation has gone from turning over a revenue of almost $400 million in 2013, to actually LOSING almost $33 million since Donald Trump wiped the floor with Hillary in 2016.

Newly released tax records show that the foundation reported a loss of almost $17 million in 2018, to add to the net loss of $16.1 million the previous year in 2017.

The numbers don’t lie.

Total revenue reported for 2018 was just $30.7 million, less than a tenth of what was being pulled in While Hillary was Secretary of State.

So when does the Wicked Witch of The North East hit us deplorables taxpayers up for a bailout?

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The first male birth control is going to hurt. Of course it is.

Would men endure a shot in the penis to prevent pregnancy? Indian researchers think so.

The Indian Council of Medical Research, a government-funded biomedical research agency, has successfully completed a clinical trial on an injectable male contraceptive, the Hindustan Times reported.

“The product is ready, with only regulatory approvals pending [from the government],” Dr. R.S. Sharma, senior scientist with ICMR, told the local news outlet. “The trials are over, including extended, Phase 3 clinical trials for which 303 candidates were recruited with a 97.3% success rate and no reported side effects. The product can safely be called the world’s first male contraceptive.”

The birth control method, which lasts approximately 13 years, involves injecting a polymer, called styrene maleic anhydride, into the vas deferens, effectively blocking sperm from leaving the testicles. The shot, preceded by a dose of local anesthesia, is designed to supplant a traditional vasectomy.

Which reminds me of the Far Side................

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Daily cannabis use lowers odds of using illicit opioids among people who have chronic pain

For those using illicit opioids to manage their chronic pain, cannabis may be a beneficial -- and a less dangerous -- alternative, according to new research from the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU)

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SMOD, is it on its way?

NASA is currently tracking three near-Earth objects (NEOs) due to fly past the Earth on November 20. Worryingly, two of the three were only spotted this past weekend, once again raising tensions over planetary defense.
The first of Wednesday’s cosmic flybys and the largest, measuring 157.5ft to 360.8ft (48 to 110 meters) across, will be asteroid 2019 UK6, which will speed past at approximately 6.20am GMT (1.20am EDT). It is 2019 UK6 we had most prior warning about, as it was first observed on October 24.

NEO 2019 UK6 is an Amor asteroid, which that goes around the Sun and the Earth, occasionally, but very rarely, crossing Earth's path. Apollo asteroids, on the other hand, intersect with Earth’s orbit as the planet travels around the Sun.

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Protesters are planners. Who knew?

Right now: activists with @XRebelDC @ExtinctionR are taking supplements in preparation for an attempted hunger strike at Nancy Pelosi’s office.

The #ExtinctionRebellion activists say they’ll be demanding a sit-down meeting with Pelosi where they will push her on climate action.

The ONT's advice? 66 days of hunger strike will win you a good number of converts. Go for it.

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H/T chavez the hugo

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Lost and found. Odd family reunion.

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (CNN) After years of not hearing from a Glens Falls, New York, man, Rick Hazelton's family had him legally declared dead.

But a friend of Hazelton wanted answers and with the help of a detective was able to track down Hazelton.

He found out that Hazelton was not dead, but rather he had moved around the country.

"One day I got a letter in the mail that said, 'You're being investigated in a missing persons report.' And I thought, 'That can't be right, I'm not missing. This has gotta be a mistake,'" said Hazelton.

Hazelton says that cellphones and social media just weren't around back then and so he just fell out of touch with friends and family.

Now, 33 years later, he's back in touch with those who love him and is spending Thanksgiving in New York.

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If you remove a GPS monitoring device on your car and remove it, are you a thief?

Back in 2012, the US Supreme Court ruled that it's illegal for the police to attach a GPS tracking device to someone's car without a warrant. But what if you find a GPS tracking device on your car? Can you remove it?

A little more than a year ago, the state of Indiana charged a suspected drug dealer with theft for removing a government-owned GPS tracking device from his SUV. This month, the state's Supreme Court began considering the case, and some justices seemed skeptical of the government's argument.

"I'm really struggling with how is that theft," said Justice Steven David during recent oral arguments.

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Cookies & Cream, good stuff. Rocky Road, simply delicious. Insect chip and mint? Nope, not going to eat it.

Oh ice cream, how I love you! Sometimes ice cream just really hits the spot, especially when you’ve had a really long day or it’s really hot outside. But have you thought about what’s going to happen to food, and more importantly ice cream, when there is a boom in population? Experts estimate that there will be approximately 11 billion people on our planet by the end of the century. This in turn may lead to a severe food shortage. Scientists have mentioned before that we may need to rely on bugs in order to survive in the future. They’re cheap and an easy protein that can help us get through the day. The Economist decided to take this to another level. We all know that bugs are full of protein, fiber, and even calcium. They are inexpensive and more sustainable than our typical animal proteins like beef. The Economist stated, “not having to look at bugs, and emphasizing the environmental benefits might make the idea of eating insects a bit more palatable.” Well check out their recent experiment that was conducted in Canary Wharf in London.

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"Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?"
"A Republic, if you can keep it."

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently held its 25th Annual Gala in Washington, D.C, in which CAIR’s executive director announced a goal of pushing more Islamists into Congress. As the Investigative Project on Terrorism reports, CAIR’s executive director Nihad Awad shares the “formula” he believes will secure Islamists greater political power:

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Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters

There’s a scene in The Big Lebowski in which The Dude bitterly objects that the pornographer Jackie Treehorn, viewed by the local sheriff as an upstanding citizen who “draws a lot of water” in Malibu, “treats objects like women, man.” Lazy, inarticulate stoner though The Dude may be, even he understands that porn is a shady business and that those who produce it are a detriment to society.

To read Rolling Stone, though, you’d think these people were providing a valuable public service. In a recent piece by EJ Dickson, the expert witness is Dr. David Ley, a “clinical psychologist and sex therapist” who “has partnered with the [pornographic] cam website Stripchat” to spread the word about “sexual health.” The story also includes interviews with the vice presidents of two different porn sites, an embedded tweet about the supposed health benefits of chronic masturbation, and – to wrap it up – a “comforting message” from an “adult performer and director.” They all want you to know that porn won’t hurt you or anyone else. After all, everyone is watching it.

A segment on Trevor Noah’s Daily Show takes it a step further, trotting out the same psychologist from the Rolling Stone piece to explain that porn and masturbation make “a lot of really good things happen in your body and your brain” and that “people who watch more pornography…are more feminist” and have “more egalitarian values.” The correspondent responds with a joke – delivered without a trace of self-awareness – about how watching a 95-on-1 gang bang made him realize that “women have it so hard.”

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Sh!t happens. Unfortunately sometimes it takes many years for people to learn that.

Unfortunately, for Jake Mesar, the implications of his injury were a bit more severe — and yet, the implications of his lawsuit could have essentially ended youth sports as we know it if he had succeeded.

Yes, the repercussions of what happened were long-lasting and brutal. His lawsuit, however, was still insupportable and dangerous, something that would have been risible had the ramifications not been so serious. In the process, it cost a teacher years of his life in a courtroom as well as his reputation.

In 2012, according to NJ Advance Media, middle school teacher John Suk, coaching the junior varsity baseball team at Bound Brook High School in New Jersey, ordered Mesar to slide into third while his team was leading 6-0 in a game at Gill St. Bernard’s School in order to stretch a hit into a triple. Mesar would roll his ankle, which ended with a serious break.

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Should medical patient confidentiality rules apply with parents and their children?

A woman who was not informed that her father had a fatal, inherited brain disorder has told the High Court that she would have had an abortion if she'd known at the time of her pregnancy.

She is suing three NHS trusts saying they owed a duty of care to tell her about her dad's Huntington's disease.

Any child of someone with the condition has a 50% chance of inheriting it.

Doctors suspected the diagnosis after her father shot dead her mother and was detained under the Mental Health Act.

The father tested positive for Huntington's Disease, which is caused by a faulty gene and leads to the progressive loss of brain cells, affecting movement, mood and thinking skills. It can also cause aggressive behaviour.

He told doctors he did not want his daughter told about his diagnosis, fearing she might kill herself or have an abortion if she found out.

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Australia is a mighty generous country.

An Iranian man seeking asylum in Australia botched his DIY penis enlargement procedure — and was granted entry to undergo pricey reconstructive surgery on taxpayer dime, according to local reports.

The man in his 30s, who wasn’t publicly named, tried to grow his member by injecting himself with palm oil and fell seriously ill, The Australian reported on Sunday.

He was transferred from an immigration detention center in Papua New Guinea to Australia last month for medical treatment that could cost up to $10,000, according to the outlet.

The transfer was made possible under Australia’s controversial 2019 Medevac laws, which give doctors a greater say as to which sick refugees can come into the county from offshore detention centers for medical treatment. Medical evacuations can be refused on national security grounds.

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THE ONT MUSICAL INTERLUDE

On this day: 19 Nov 1937
Ray Collins, vocals, Frank Zappa band. Collins was the lead singer on the band’s first two albums: Freak Out! (1966), and Absolutely Free (1967). Collins died on 24th Dec 2012. via thisdayinmusic.com

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On this day: 19 Nov 1964
The Supremes became the first all girl group to have a UK No.1 single when 'Baby Love' went to the top of the charts. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, it was also the second of five Supremes songs in a row to go to No.1 in the United States. via thisdayinmusic.com

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What part of strip search don't you understand? Genius Award Winner.

Following his arrest for possession of a hypodermic needle containing methamphetamine, a 380-pound Florida Man was hit with additional felony charges after jail personnel discovered a bag of meth “wedged deep within the belly button cavity of the defendant,” according to a court affidavit.

Police responding late Friday to a suspicious person call placed by employees of a McDonald’s in Clearwater arrested Martin Skelly when a search of the 41-year-old St. Petersburg resident turned up the loaded needle.

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It might be a bit dusty in here. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

On Nov. 17, the parking lot of Six Flags in St. Louis, Missouri, was packed with a fleet of brightly colored sports cars. Vehicles of all makes and models — but especially the fastest and most vibrant — waited for the word, and then they all started lining up and proceeded to the funeral of a 14-year-old boy.

Alec Ingram of Washington, Missouri, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2015, and for the past four years has fought bravely against the disease.

A Facebook page called Alec Ingram’s fight with Cancer was set up to keep people informed on his progress. They got updates of successes and setbacks, and the post received scores of comments from prayer warriors and well-wishers who all wanted Alec to overcome osteosarcoma.

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Close it up

Little Brian Stelter: Say, Now That Our Newest Coup Attempts Are Failing, Maybe It's Time to Dust Off Our First Coup Plan, Invoking the 25th Amendment

—Ace of Spades

You're not supposed to bat around the whole lineup if you keep striking out.

Yesterday, CNN announced that, with Russia Hoax 2.0 failing, they were going back to Russia Hoax 1.0-- claiming that Trump lied to Mueller or something.

Something Mueller himself was unable to establish.

Now they're going back ever further into the lineup.

Now they're trotting out the 25th Amendment coup plan again.

AP Publishes Story Noting That 100,000 Migrant Children are In Detention, Pinning This on Trump;
Then They "Retract" The Story When They Learn This Figure is from 2015, and Therefore Not "News" Because It's Not Helpful to Democrats

—Ace of Spades

Brave firefighters who need to be spat on in public.

The story's still true -- they're just retracting it because it fails to advance the political interests they're in the business of advancing.

Wouldn't want any context about Obama's detention policies cluttering up the narrative, huh, AP?

DOJ Releases More Information About Strzok in Motion to Dismiss His Lawsuit Against Them

—Ace of Spades

Strzok filed suit, laughably, challenging the DOJ's determination that he should be fired.

The Department of Justice released documents Monday outlining a slew of "security violations" and flagrantly "unprofessional conduct" by anti-Trump ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok -- including his alleged practice of keeping sensitive FBI documents on his unsecured personal electronic devices, even as his wife gained access to his cellphone and discovered evidence that he was having an affair with former FBI attorney Lisa Page.

The DOJ was seeking to dismiss Strzok's lawsuit claiming he was unfairly fired and deserves to be reinstated as chief of the counterespionage division at the FBI. In its filing, the DOJ included an August 2018 letter to Strzok from the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which said in part that Strzok had engaged in a "dereliction of supervisory responsibility" by failing to investigate the potentially classified Hillary Clinton emails that had turned up on an unsecured laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner as the 2016 election approached.

The situation became so dire, OPR said, that a case agent in New York told federal prosecutors there that he was "scared" and "paranoid" that "somebody was not acting appropriately" and that "somebody was trying to bury this."

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Additionally, DOJ and OPR noted that although Strzok claimed to have "double deleted" sensitive FBI materials from his personal devices, his wife nonetheless apparently found evidence of his affair on his cellphone -- including photographs and a hotel reservation "ostensibly" used for a "romantic encounter." Strzok didn't consent to turning over the devices for review, according to OPR, even as he acknowledged using Apple's iMessage service for some FBI work.

"[My wife] has my phone. Read an angry note I wrote but didn't send you. That is her calling from my phone. She says she wants to talk to [you]. Said we were close friends nothing more," one of Strzok's text to Page read, according to the filing.

...

Strzok's wife allegedly threatened to send Page's husband some of the photographs from Strzok's phone.

One quick vocabularly point: I've never trusted myself to use the word "ostensibly" because I wasn't sure if it meant apparently or supposedly/purportedly.

And that's a big difference; it's it's "apparently," that means it's your own take on the evidence; if it's "supposedly," that's someone else trying to push their take on you.

Turns out, it means both -- either apparently or supposedly, but not necessarily actually.

Here's the etymology, which suggests it started out as mostly meaning "purportedly:"

1730, "capable of being shown, that can be shown or seen, presentable," from French ostensible, from Latin ostens-, past-participle stem of ostendere "to show, expose to view; to stretch out, spread before; exhibit, display," from assimilated form of ob "in front of" (see ob-) + tendere "to stretch," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." Meaning "apparent, professed, put forth or held out as real" is from 1771.

So if that one's been bothering you, you're welcome.

Below, some tweets containing screenshots of the filing.

RUSSIAN Propaganda Site Daily Caller Releases "Doctored Video" of Impeachment Hero Eric Swallwell, and Must Be Deplatformed Immediately
Plus: More Bearclaw!

—Ace of Spades

This guy's underwear is working harder than Ana Navarro's spanx.

Doc_Zero/John Hayward: The Takeaway from Impeachment Theater Is That The Unelected Permanent Government Has Lost Confidence In the Voters

—Ace of Spades

Would it not be simpler to dissolve the people, and install another?

The big takeaway from Impeachment Theater is that American voters have influence over a much smaller portion of the federal government than they believed. Washington is a feudal bureaucratic empire with a small suggestion box.

Last week American voters were introduced to the idea that the elected President of the United States can be accused of "undermining" foreign policy determined by the permanent bureaucracy, which spends billions of our tax dollars but is not even slightly interested in our input.

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We've been told top bureaucrats who supposedly serve at the pleasure of the president are actually entitled to their jobs and firing them is a crime, with the president presumed guilty unless he can prove he had an acceptable reason for terminating or reassigning them.

We've learned that Made Men of the bureaucratic empire and its political wing, the Democrat Party, cannot be investigated for corruption unless the most exquisite preliminary rituals are followed and the investigators can demonstrate the absolute purity of their intentions.

Outside of Impeachment Theater, we've been told it's heroic for the bureaucracy to organize "resistance" against the elected president and congressional representatives, if the Washington empire disapproves of the voters' choices.

We've discovered obscure lower-court judges can hijack entire segments of national policy on a whim. Some of these imperial proclamations have been expressly premised on the notion that American citizens have less to say about their own government than foreign nationals do.

We've learned a president the imperial bureaucracy likes can issue executive orders that cannot be reversed by presidents it disapproves of. The people are belatedly informed that some matters are settled forever on the "one man, one vote, one time" principle.

The essence of self-government, the true right that matters above all others, is the right to say "no." We've learned over the past three years that the American people no longer have that right in most cases, but their nominal employees in the federal government do.

If the imperial bureaucracy makes a demand of you, good luck with trying to work up a "resistance" movement. Good luck getting any favorable attention from the media that has fused with that bureaucracy and enjoys a revolving door of employment with it.

But if you, the Little People, cast votes the imperial bureaucracy doesn't like... well, watch out. They'll fight you every step of the way and spend untold millions of YOUR dollars against you. Then they'll get in front of cameras and expect you to applaud them as heroes.

It was always a swindle to convince the American people that democracy serves as a failsafe check against authoritarian power. We were fooled into thinking our government could never become dictatorial, no matter how much power it claims, because we can always vote the bums out.

Guess what, kids? "Voting the bums out" turns out to be nearly impossible in any significant sense, because they can use their vast resources of money, power, and media to create defensive phalanxes of rock-solid voters. They can give you billions of reasons not to vote them out.

And as we've seen since 2017, even if you DO manage to vote the bums out, or vote in an administration that disagrees with the imperial consensus, you learn that most of the power and money is controlled by people you never get to vote against.

You learn that the people you don't vote for are very capable of defending their privileges against the people who DO have to face the voters. And you learn that far more issues than you ever suspected are considered "settled" so you'll never get to vote on them again. /end

Oh: Mr. Bearclaw -- I'm Sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Bearclaw -- Admits That Ukraine Asked Him to... Be Their Defense Minister

—Ace of Spades

Apparently the Ukranians had absolutely no questions about Vindman's national loyalties. They offered him one of the highest-ranking positions in government -- three times.

White House official Lt. Col. [Big Boy Bearclaw] testified Tuesday as part of the House impeachment inquiry that he was asked to serve as Ukraine’s defense minister -- but repeatedly denied the offers -- when he traveled to Kiev for the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Minority counsel Steve Castor asked Vindman about the offer made by Ukraine's Defense Council Oleksandr Danylyuk earlier this year.

[Lt. Col. Bearclaw] testified Tuesday that Danylyuk offered him the position "three times."

"Every single time, I dismissed it," [Bearclaw] said. "Upon returning, I notified my chain of command and the appropriate counterintelligence folks about this offer."

Senator Kennedy of Louisiana: Epstein Did Not Kill Himself

—Ace of Spades

Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating Epstein's suicide death as a possible "criminal enterprise."

Bureau of Prisons Director Kathleen Hawk Sawyer revealed during testimony to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that the FBI is investigating whether a "criminal enterprise" played a role in the death of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, asked Sawyer: "With a case this high profile, there has got to be either a major malfunction of the system or criminal enterprise at foot to allow this to happen. So are you looking at both, is the FBI looking at both?"

Sawyer responded: "The FBI is involved and they are looking at criminal enterprise, yes."

Jeffrey Epstein

As guilty of sex trafficking as he is innocent of suicide.

C*ck-Fil-A? Chick-Fil-A Will No Longer Donate to Organizations Gay Pressure Groups Claim Are "Anti-Gay"

—Ace of Spades

You know -- alt-right organizations like the Salvation Army.

Chick-fil-A said Monday that it has stopped donations to several Christian organizations after receiving backlash from LGBT rights activists over the last several weeks.

The U.S. fast food chain said that as it expands, it will no longer donate to the Salvation Army, the Paul Anderson Youth Home, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which opposes same-sex marriage. The company’s charity, the Chick-fil-A Foundation, has donated millions of dollars to the two organizations.

"We made multi-year commitments to both organizations and we fulfilled those obligations in 2018," a representative for Chick-fil-A said, saying the chain will now focus its charitable donations on "education, homelessness and hunger."

Nevergiveup says that Chick-Fil-A did not admit they were bowing to PC pressure, but... well, if they're focusing on "homelessness and hunger," why would they stop donating to the Salvation Army, except for the pressure from gay groups?

And of course they would not admit that.

But I can't make sense of claiming you're redirecting your donations to help with "homelessness and hunger," and then say, "And that means no more donations to the Salvation Army."

Chick-Fil-A disputes that this represents a "cave" to gay gestapo groups, but it seems to be that, at least to me.

Gay groups have been directing hateful protests at the organization for weeks.

Below, video of some of the protesters, including many, many drag queens.

David French rates this "a blessing of liberty," I presume.

Eric Swallowall Drops a Raucously Loud Fart on Live TV

—Ace of Spades

Well that's one way to get some Twitter buzz.

I know this is old but it's too good.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

Socialism inevitably leads to totalitarian governments.
Socialism inevitably leads to police states.
Socialism inevitably leads to death.

And that is what is coming to Hong Kong.

I can game out lots of scenarios that lead to a relaxation of Chinese control over Hong Kong, but they are long shots. The smart money is betting the over on number of deaths, and the under on the whole "Protesters Win!"

Police surround last holdouts at Hong Kong university

About 100 anti-government protesters remained holed up at a Hong Kong university Tuesday, unsure what to do next as food supplies dwindled and a police siege of the campus entered its third day.

Police played a waiting game after 10 days of some of the most intense protests the city has seen in more than five months of often violent unrest.

The government has stood firm, rejecting most of the protesters’ demands, even as they shut down major roads and trains during rush hour every day last week, turned several university campuses into fortresses and blocked a major road tunnel, which remained shut Tuesday.

In Beijing, the National People’s Congress criticized the high court in Hong Kong for striking down a ban on wearing face masks at the protests. China has taken a tough line on the protests and said that restoring order is the city’s highest priority.

See, it's all the same, all over the world and all through history. When government is powerful it violates the natural rights of its citizens. That is immutable. So any time some liberal virtue-signalling asshat wants to know why we need guns, point at Hong Kong.

The only reason the ChiComs haven't rolled the tanks is because Hong Kong is visible to the world. So they have to tread lightly or even LeBron James might say something unflattering about the largest and most pervasive police state in history.

They will start the killing soon, if they haven't already. And whatever you might see or read in the media, it is worse on the ground. The Chinese government cannot lose this battle, or the same thing will eventually happen in hundreds of cities across China. And that will mean death and destruction that will rival the cultural revolution or Pol Pot.

We are indeed living in interesting times.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Chevalier D'Eon
Thomas Stuart

In this case you are correct. Just read about...uh...xer?

The Morning Report - 11/19/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Another day and another star witness who's going to blow this thing wide open and nail Trump. This time it's some career foreign service tool named David Holmes, the political officer at the US embassy in Ukraine who claimed to have overheard a phone call between Trump and ambassador Gordon Sondland the day after the crucial conversation between Presidents Trump and Zelensky that's at the heart of the drive to impeach. Aside from the fact that Holmes is yet another bureaucratic cog in the Deep State tyrannical machine, that he hates Trump and his foreign policy, and that his so-called damning evidence is based on copious notes he took of his colleagues remarks about the Presidents' call, he himself did not hear the call and in fact had been drinking when he heard the conversation between Trump and Sondland. Considering the fact that he offers nothing new, had been drinking and that the transcript of the call that got all this crap going has been released and is indeed "a perfect call," there is no there there.

But still they persist. Nancy Palsi, Schiff-for-Brains and the entire Democrat-Left-Media Complex is going to go full steam ahead for the next 51 weeks, despite the fact that it will absolutely destroy whatever illusion of a functioning political process America once might have had and permanently damage any chance of uniting what is now a deeply divided citizenry. No matter what the media claims, this is not playing at all well in Peoria. So tone deaf in their arrogance and haughtiness are the Dems that they think the American people are just too fucking stupid and inbred to understand quid pro quo, and are using focus groups to try and come up with simpler words for us filthy knuckle-dragging rubes to comprehend, like bribery and abuse of power. It doesn't matter what they call it; the American people by and large are not only not buying it but are coming to the conclusion that this entire thing is engineered as a means to persecute and illegally oust Trump. Some have even said, look, we're less than a year out from the election, so why not just let the people decide. This is where Palsi let's the strings holding up her face slip where she reveals much not only about how they feel about this election but how the Globalist so-called "elite" look upon their entitlement to power. We cannot take a chance on ignorant masses going against us like they did in 2016 (and '80 and '84 for that matter). It also not so subtly confirms what we have long suspected, insofar as elections, at least on a national level and sometimes at a state level are and have been a rigged game.

Other than that, the other major development is that Trump is hinting that he might agree to testify in the investigation. Like so many times before, I think he is calculating yet again to maneuver the Dems into another trap. Stay tuned.

SHAM-PEACHMENT FOLLIES

• Pelosi Blows Off Impeachment Critics, Says It's "Weak," "Dangerous" To Let Election Decide
  
• Democrats' New Star Witness, David Holmes, Was Drinking Wine, Didn't Take Notes
  
• Lee Zeldin Slams Schiff-for-Brains For "Sick" Speech: "Really Disgusting Rhetoric"
  
• Devin Nunes Says "Tough Luck" to Impeachment Witnesses Upset with Trump's Ukraine Policy
  
• Let's Stop Pretending Every Impeachment Witness Is a Selfless Hero
  
• Joe Bidet's Former Ukraine Adviser at Center of House Impeachment Inquiry
  
• Trump "Strongly" Considering Offering Testimony in Impeachment Inquiry
  
• Rabbi Fischer: Why the Palsi/Schiff-for-Brains Impeachment Is Playing Out Unsuccessfully
  
• Palsi Pelosi: Trump's Actions "So Much Worse Than Even What Richard Nixon Did" (Nixon caved, Trump fights back - jjs)
  
• Impeachment by Focus Group
  
• The Focus Group Impeachment Farce
  
• Impeachment is Not Playing in Peoria
  
• The Swamp's Swingline Stapler
  
• AG Barr: How the Left is Trashing the Constitution to Fight Trump

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
  The other reason the Dems are still desperate to continue the sham-peachment flea circus is that the IG report on FISA abuse as well as AG Barr's report and possible indictments indeed appear to be imminent. In fact, hallelujah, the Senate has now set a date for hearings into how the FISA warrants were obtained to spy on the Trump campaign. All well and good, but AG Barr in a recent speech lamented the Legislative branch, specifically the Dems, weaponizing now the oversight process as a means to impede, neuter and even remove a chief executive it does not like.

  ...Now, we should wish to return to a peacetime world where Democrats and Republicans agree to constrain the use of their oversight powers and avoid using them for partisan political purposes or to harass the executive branch.

  But we are not at peace. Senate Republicans must not unilaterally disarm in the Oversight War.

  If Congressional Democrats are going to use every lawful means at their disposal to "resist" President Trump, then Senate Republicans should use every lawful means at their disposal to punish their bad faith rebellion.

  Amen (FYI that's not AG Barr but from the last link at Human Events). Lastly, a bit of good news, SCOTUS has at least temporarily blocked the subpoena for the President's financial records.

• Senate Sets Date For FISA Abuse Hearing
  
• Chief Justice Roberts Halts Subpoena For President Trump's Accounting Records... For Now
  
• Senate Republicans Are AWOL in the Oversight War

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  A photo of Mayor Buttplug with his male partner has surfaced of the two of them posing for a selfie at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in 2017. Gee, aren't we so cute! Clueless and irreverent is no way to go through life, schmuck. Meanwhile, the Democrat mayor of Muncie gets pinched by the Feds for corruption, Joe Bidet wants to protect women by taking money from wife-beaters and mish-grabbers, and tiresome foghorn Mark Kelly takes thousands in dark money after bloviating endlessly on the evils of same.

• Mayor Buttplug Reamed for Posing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial
  
• Democrat Mayor of Muncie, IN Arrested by FBI in Alleged Corruption Probe
  
• Joe Bidet Releases Plan To End Violence Against Women... Days After Fundraising With Alleged Women Abusers
  
• Mark Kelly Receives Thousands of Dollars Through Corporate PAC Loophole (titanic hypocrite - jjs)

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER CRISIS, BORDER SECURITY
  To the border we go where our Central American asylum enforcement is kicking in, whatever moderate Dems there are clearly do not favor open borders, open borders fanatic Elizabeth Wan-pum talks about "traffic violence" while the illegal alien DUI epidemic is out of control, Oregon hack-in-black gets put in place by ICE, Palsi refuses to fund wildly popular border wall in upcoming budget, and acting CBP chief gives update on wall construction.

• Trump Admin To Begin Enforcing Asylum Agreements With Central American Governments
  
• Pew Research: 6-in-10 Moderate Democrat Voters Support Increased Immigration Controls
  
• More Americans Killed by Illegal Alien DUI Epidemic as Open Borders Shill Elizabeth Fugazi Decries "Traffic Violence"
  
• Oregon Hack-in-Black Says ICE Can't Arrest Criminal Aliens at Courthouses; ICE Reminds Her Who's in Charge
  
• Palsi Says Democrat House Will Not Fund the Border Wall
  
• Acting CBP Chief: We've Built 78 Miles of Replacement Border Wall, Now Breaking Ground for New Wall

  POLITICS
  So the President made an unscheduled stop at Walter Reed and the Warcock's cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner thinks that is worrisome, Eric Swallowswell demonstrates his world-famous class and sophistication by emitting flatus from his anus instead of the usual gas from his cakehole live on MSNBC, a Democrat voter speaks for a hell of a lot of Americans when he hears Elizabeth Fugazi yammer, Daniel Greenfield on why the Dems are desperate to prevent her from winning the nod, Tulsi Gabbard sounds semi-normal and so destroys her campaign, note to the Clintons: learn to code, and bite-sized billionaire busybody backtracks badly.

• Dick Cheney Cardiologist: Trump Walter Reed Trip "Worrisome", "Unusual"
  
• He Who Denied It: Eric Swallowswell Denies Emitting Massive Fart on MSNBC (out his ass this time - jjs)
  
• Dem Voter: When I Hear Fauxcahontas Talk, "I Want to Slap Her" (join the club - jjs)
  
• Greenfield: The Stop Fauxcahontas Primary
  
• Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Her Campaign: "We Stand United... Motivated by Love"
  
• Clinton Foundation Reports $16.8 Million Loss in 2018
  
• Bloomberg Renounces

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Fred Smith rips into Slim's Slimes for lying and challenges the editor to a debate which the latter will doubtless cower in fear to avoid at all costs, did CNN peddle fakery on Trump's unscheduled Walter Reed stopover, Federalist Society drowns out Kavanaugh protesters with applause, and a look at the media's organized hype of the Swedish meatball and that UN Climate Conference.

• FedEx CEO Challenges NY Times Editor "To a Public Debate" Over $0 Tax Article
  
• Is CNN Peddling Fake News About a POTUS Health Scare?
  
• Federalist Society Drowns Out Unhinged Protesters With Applause For Brett Kavanaugh
  
• Inside the Media Conspiracy to Hype Scoldilocks Thunberg and the UN Climate Conference

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  Another good guy with a gun does good, and an upcoming case at SCOTUS.

• Report: Armed Citizen Stopped Oklahoma Walmart Shooter
  
• Is Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, or the First Circuit Right About the Second Amendment?

  ABORTION
  G-dless heathen Andrew Cuomo urinates on the first amendment, Dem A'sG will only support baby-killers, and Margot Cleveland on the likely trajectory of the David Daleidin-Planned Parenthood case.

• Infanticide Champion Andrew Cuomo Signs Bill Telling Pro-Lifers Whom They Can Hire; ADF Files Lawsuit
  
• Democrat Attorneys General Group Will Only Support Pro-Abortion Candidates
  
• Cleveland: Why the Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Case Will Likely Hit the Supreme Court

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  The big story that broke late yesterday is the Trump administration's reversal of Dhimmi's and the Dog-Eater's policy of declaring Israeli "settlements" illegal, Hong Kong protests turning bloody and devolving into chaos, same for massive protests across Iran, IAEA says Farsis in violation of heavy water codicil in nuke deal, Fauxcahontas agrees with Trump? Also, Israel still paying off terrorists, and an essay theorizing on how the Deep State got so deep.

• US Reverses Carter, Obama Policy Declaring Israeli Settlements "Illegal"
  
• Hong Kong Protests Escalate Into Complete Chaos in the Streets
  
• Iran: Anti-Regime Protests Hit Major Cities After Fuel Price Hike
  
• IAEA: Iran Exceeds Heavy Water Limit in Latest Nuclear Deal Breach
  
• Elizabeth Wan-pum Agrees With Trump's Strategy In Venezuela, "Yeah, I Support Economic Sanctions"
  
• Israel Still Paying Money to Palestinians, Palestinians Keep Paying Jihad Terrorists (meshuga is as meshuga does - jjs)
  
• Neglect of Foreign Policy Led to the Deep State

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  Yup.
  

• Biden Tolerated Traitors, Trump Pardoned Heroes

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  A budget? Never heard of them. Really. Also, woman doused with hobo diarrhea laments LA's descent into medieval world and Salena Zito on the filthy water crisis in the heartland.

• House To Vote On Temporary Funding For The Government Tuesday... With No Border Wall Funding
  
• Dr. Drew Talks To Woman Doused With "Hot Diarrhea," Warns Of More Random Attacks As Homeless "Deteriorate" On L.A. Streets
  
• Zito: America's Troubled Waters (actual H2O, not Maxine - jjs)

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  But at least we'll have the time to paint or write that screenplay instead of stuck in job-lock. Winning.

• Study: 2020 Dem Tax Hikes Could Eliminate 413,000 Jobs

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  Joe Bidet totally clueless on the direction of the nation. Sadly, I do agree with him that pot is a gateway drug.

• Elderly Politician Joe Biden Says He Won't Legalize Marijuana Because It Might Be a "Gateway Drug"

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  Another college goes insane with the America hatred, Illinois school district all in on the psychosis, and an essay on "critical" thinking as societal self-flagellation and lobotomization.

• Grand Valley State University Kills Pledge of Allegiance Tradition
  
• Illinois School District Rules Transgender Students Have Unrestricted Access To Bathrooms
  
• The Duplicitous Game of Critique

  HEALTHCARE
  Administration reconsidering e-cig ban and Medicare-for-All could result in a red wave from frightened seniors.
  
  

• Trump Administration Backs Away From Ban On Flavored E-Cigarette Products
  
• Understanding "Medicare for All" Could Make Seniors Vote Red (state, not Commie - jjs)

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  San Diego's electric bus boondoggle.

• San Diego's Green New Deal Showcase Unwittingly Reveals an Expensive Future

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  While the real toll in destroyed lives will never be revealed, Sprite goes full on insane with creepy advert/propaganda pimping self-mutilation.

• "Frankenstein Hack Job": 19-Year-Old Regrets His Transgender Surgery
  
• Creepy New Sprite Commercial Sells Transgenderism and Breast Binding, Not Soda (get woke, get fucked - jjs)

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Atlanta rag calls Eastwood's latest inaccurate, Chick-Fil-A does a Dick's, comedy club gets "woke" and goes for broke, and a comparison of the Prague Spring as it relates to our artists and athletes fighting for just the opposite.

• Atlanta Urinal-Constipation Questions Accuracy of Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell
  
• Backlash: Chick-Fil-A Faces Heat For Caving To Leftists, Cutting Ties With Christian Orgs
  
• Woke-Scold Comedy Club Owner Shuts Down Show Over "Misogynist" Stand-Up Comics
  
• Resistance: Czechoslovakia and America

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

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