Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (9/19/18 )

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“I think that may be the point — to confound us, so it’s harder to keep our eye on the ball. The ball, of course, is protecting American democracy … And right now, our democracy is in crisis.”The Bitch who will never be President

Quote II

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi

Quote III

"I learned a lot from studying the civil rights movement of the United States, from Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael and Eldridge Cleaver. All in their own unique ways, I learned that the United States had failed in living up to the ideals that I had learned about in my high school history classes." Lisa Brown, Congressional Candidate

Quote IV

“In today’s world, someone who is suicidal sits home, nurses their grievance, develops a rage and is just as suicidal, but they take 20 people with them. There’s something that changed in the culture.” Tom Selleck

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The EU, how to make friends and influence people.

Ireland’s government has fully recovered more than €14bn (£12.4bn) in disputed taxes and interest from Apple, which it will hold in an escrow fund pending its appeal against a European Union tax ruling.

The European commission ruled in August 2016 that Apple had received unfair tax incentives from the Irish government. Both Apple and Dublin are appealing against the original ruling, saying the iPhone maker’s tax treatment was in line with Irish and EU law.

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Not a good week for Elon Musk.

First, he is being sued in two different courts for defamation.

Elon Musk has called Vernon Unsworth, a British diver who advised on the Thailand cave rescue, a “pedo,” a “child rapist,” and a participant in sex tourism. Musk’s accusations remain unsubstantiated. This week, Unsworth filed a defamation lawsuit against Musk in federal court in Los Angeles, and his lawyers say he plans to file another legal action in London. That would be a strategic move.

Unsworth is seeking more than $75,000 in damages and an injunction to prevent Musk from making future allegations. In a statement, Unsworth’s US-based attorney L. Lin Wood said, “Musk’s influence and wealth cannot convert his lies into truth or protect him from accountability for his wrongdoing in a court of law.”

Secondly, It appears that the DOJ has opened a probe in regards to Musk's big mouth on Twitter.

THE DEPARTMENT OF Justice has reportedly opened a criminal fraud investigation into Tesla, after CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter last month that he was considering taking the automaker private and had “funding secured” to do so. Musk later revealed that the funding required to go private at $420 per share, which he had believed would come mostly from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, wasn’t exactly locked down. Seventeen days after that initial tweet, in late August, Tesla declared it would remain a public company after all—but the backtracking hasn’t stemmed the fallout from the incident. Bloomberg’s report of the probe sent Tesla shares down nearly 10 percent early this morning. (Stocks ultimately closed down 3 percent on Tuesday evening.)

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When I mention Eric Holder, what do you think of? Fast & Furious? Black Panther voter intimidation? Spying on US citizens/journalists?

The federal government can use the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on journalists. So said a pair of 2015 Justice Department memos, including one from then–Attorney General Eric Holder.

FISA is controversial in itself. The act is supposed to be used to justify surveillance on foreign targets. But as Reason's Scott Shackford has explained, intelligence agencies often use it to secretly spy on American citizens, sometimes without a warrant.

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"Methinks thou dost protest too much"

Fight for 15 and its chief backer, labor giant Service Employees International Union, have faced a number of sexual misconduct accusations in recent years, some of which have resulted in firings, suspensions, and public outcry from inside the labor movement. In October, Scott Courtney, the head of the Fight for 15 campaign and SEIU vice president, tendered his resignation after numerous colleagues and former union organizers came forward alleging that he used sex as a factor in promotions and advancement within the organization. A former SEIU organizer told the Washington Free Beacon that the allegations against Courtney did not surprise her, saying the union's "HR processes for investigating sexual harassment [represent] a culture of protecting the organization."

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Respect your elders!

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The Cornhuskers have bigger problems than balloons.

Vegan advocacy nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is demanding that the University of Nebraska at Lincoln part ways with its longstanding tradition of releasing party balloons at university football games.

PETA started an online petition to ban the balloons, alleging that they are “an environmental hazard and can travel vast distances before finally bursting and falling to the ground or into bodies of water.” The school has released thousands of balloons after its first touchdown at home football games, for the past 50 years.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

September 19, 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival scored their only UK No.1 single with 'Bad Moon Rising' a US No.2 hit. Also on this day the group started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Green River.' via thisdayinmusic.com

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September 19, 2005, Research published by Guinness World Records showed that Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history. The band had scored 61 chart successes, dating from ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’ in 1968 to ‘You'll Come Around’ in 2004. Queen came second with 52 hits, with The Rolling Stones and UB40 with 51 hits each.

September 19, 1946, Born on this day, John Coghlan drummer with English rock band Status Quo, (he left in 1982), who had the 1977 UK No.3 single 'Rockin' All Over The World'. Other hits include 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' in 1968, and 'Whatever You Want' in 1979. via thisdayinmusic.com

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September 19, 1943, Born on this day, Cass Elliott, singer, Mamas and the Papas, who scored the 1966 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Monday Monday'. After the breakup of The Mamas & the Papas, Elliot embarked on a solo career and had the 1968 hit 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' from her solo album of the same name. Elliott died from a heart attack on 29th July 1974 while staying at Harry Nilsson's London flat in the UK. via thisdayinmusic.com

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OH NO!!!! Coffee to become extinct. Nah, just kidding. Don't believe all the climate change shit you hear.

For roughly the last two years, the media has been warning us that climate change is threatening the world’s supply of coffee beans.

According to the hypothesis, growing conditions for coffee will no longer be suitable in many places, and plagues and pestilences will destroy the crops. If that doesn’t kill off coffee, then the lack of pollinators will.

As usual, the media wasn’t shy in its headlines. The New York Times bluntly stated “Climate Change Threatens World’s Coffee Supply, Report Says.” TIME magazine took it a step further: “Your Morning Cup of Coffee Is in Danger. Can the Industry Adapt in Time?” Newsweek, in its typical “dial-it-up-to-11” editorial style, wrote, “Climate Change Effects Could Mean the End of Coffee Beans.”

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Who is Karen Monahan? And why the hell haven't you heard her name on TV for the past week(s)? The answer is quite simple.

If you know the name Christine Blasey Ford but not Karen Monahan, you must ask yourself, "Why?"

In the past few weeks, the nation has been transfixed on nearly every detail surrounding the confirmation process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The week after the contentious hearings, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicated that she possessed a letter charging the nominee with sexual misconduct while a teenager in the early 1980s. Since then, and especially now that we know the accuser's name, it's been a literal he said/she said.

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The ONT is not in the advice business, but..............

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It is time for you to decide. Entrepreneurs or Genius Award Winners?

Two Georgia women were arrested last week after officials found one of them selling marijuana edibles at a local church event, the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team said in a Monday statement.

On Friday, a local church was hosting an event for entrepreneurs, with vendors selling various items from booths. One of those vendors was Ebony Cooper, 28, of Savannah, who “was openly selling the edibles in addition to other items,” the CNT said, noting the items included marijuana-infused “cereal treats, brownies, and puddings.”

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Thoughts, prayers, cash and some elbow grease. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

After his trip to South Carolina, he has since headed back into the storm zone to rescue people and animals from flood waters. In a recent video post, Alsup said he was headed towards Lumberton, North Carolina where a dam could possibly collapse.

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Close it up

Accuser's Lawyer: Having My Client Testify Under Oath Would be Contrary to the Purposes of Discovering the Truth

—Ace of Spades

Oh?

You don't say.

Meawhile, former Obama official and eternal Obama partisan Jim Sciutto continues doing #FakeNews the CNN way by straight-up lying, as usual.

Project Veritas Sting: Democrat Socialist Activist Who Led "Protest" Against Kirstjen Nielsen in Restaurant Admits to Running License Plates on Government Computers to Find Citizens' Home Addresses in Order to "Protest" Them

—Ace of Spades

She says they can't run license plates "officially," but she admits she ran them.

How?

A coworker of hers admits that she uses the expensive Lexis-Nexis search service for use in her protesting activities.

Several of these miscreants brag that they cannot be fired, being government workers.

Video: Meet the World's First Domesticated, Semi-Doglike Foxes

—Ace of Spades

A Russian scientist wanted to prove, back in the 1980s, that the evolution from wolf to dog was genetic and caused by selective breeding by man. To prove this, he bred foxes for decades, selecting for only one trait: friendliness towards humans (or at least lack of fear of humans).

Foxes that were fearful of humans or unfriendly towards them were not permitted to breed. (To be honest, given that this was done by Russians and scientists, neither group having excess empathy for lab animals, I assume "not permitted to breed" really means "not permitted to live.")

But the foxes that seemed warmer towards humans were allowed to breed. And over decades and many generations, they slowly produced more dog-like foxes.

The video below shows a San Diego couple who pay up to $9000 for the domesticated foxes and the import fees for exotic animals, and have about eight of them. They say the foxes are not housebroken at all, and not nearly as sweet-natured as dogs; but the video points out, too, that these were lab animals, bred and tested and then allowed to breed if they were sufficiently friendly, but not cared for as a master would care for his dog.

So, genetically they might be friendly foxes, but they haven't been socialized to be as friendly as dogs. Most of their early lives were spent in kennels and cages.

Who knows, maybe the next generation of these San Diego foxes, properly brought up by humans from puppyhood, might be more like dogs.

It's kind of interesting.

The TL;DR version is: No, domesticated foxes are no threat whatsoever to become Man's New Best Friend. While they're tame and unafraid of people, they're also pretty aloof. And who knows, maybe they're not housebreakable.

Still, they're kinda cute.

Video below, print article here.

If you want to dive right into the Road Test -- wild foxes vs. domesticated foxes as far as friendliness towards humans -- skip to 4:54 and watch for about 30 seconds.

Something's Coming That Will Vindicate Kavanaugh?

—Ace of Spades

#SalonHot25 charter member AllahPundit digests some tweets which suggest that there may be some strong evidence emerging soon.

Whelan also suggested that while Kavanaugh was innocent of any crime, someone else might be guilty of one, and noted that it was a crime to lie to Congress.

I'm suspicious of all this -- not because I think Kavanaugh is guilty, but because, in my experience, life just doesn't work out this way.

Usually.

Kamala Harris: Accuser Should Not Be "Bullied" Into Testifying About It;
Mazie Hiromo: Men Should Shut Up

—Ace of Spades

The woman who orchestrated a national PR campaign to hype up the release of her Oscar-hopeful accusation should not be "bullied" into actually testifying about it.

And Senator Mazie Hirono demands that men "shut up" any time a woman lobs an accusation.

On Monday, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) put on a show for reporters, ranting about the "men in this country" and telling them to "just shut up" with regard to the flimsy decades-old allegations of sexual assault launched at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the eleventh hour.

"Guess who's perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country. I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up! And step up. Do the right thing for a change," Hirono ranted, when asked about being one of four women on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

I have an idea. If liberal feminist women cannot understand that due process and the requirement of evidentiary standards do not turn off just because another leftist feminist woman has made an allegation, perhaps they should be excluded from public debate and public office. Perhaps they're just not mentally capable of participating in participatory democracy.

Meanwhile, another man Blasey Ford alleges was present at this four guys, one girl (or two girls? Depends on her fuzzy, mutating memory) pool party denies he was at any such party.

"I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as 'PJ' who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post," Smyth says in his statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh."

"Personally speaking, I have known Brett Kavanaugh since high school and I know him to be a person of great integrity, a great friend, and I have never witnessed any improper conduct by Brett Kavanaugh towards women. To safeguard my own privacy and anonymity, I respectfully request that the Committee accept this statement in response to any inquiry the Committee may have."

Update: Kristin Gillibrand, who looks okay when she's not fat, joins in the coordinated messaging about not "bullying" this heroine into testifying.

Note that the last accuser Gillibrand promoted was Mattress Girl, another confabulator.

Update: The Democrats are whining about "bullying" her into testifying, but of course it was Democrats who leaked her letter to the press, thus guaranteeing she'd be asked to testify.

They want her accusations shouted but never questioned.

Jake Tapper Devotes Segment of Show to Trump's Penis

—Ace of Spades

Weird, he always had excuses about what he just didn't have time to do a segment on Ben Rhodes admitted he created an "Echo Chamber" in the media on the Iran Deal, or that reporters "literally know nothing."

I guess he has plenty of time for cock, though.

Kavanaugh News

—OregonMuse

SO NOW WE KNOW! Kavanaugh Accuser's Lawyer is Vice Chair of Soros Funded Org Opposing Kavanaugh. We knew Soros was behind this. $$ involved for sure! How low the Dems go to obstruct. .@ChuckGrassley, just get on with the vote. https://t.co/oFQsijzSQF

— Nina Tomasieski (@MAGANinaJo) September 18, 2018

Stomp me! Stomp me right now!

—OregonMuse

Me, waiting to get stomped

Open thread until...

Stomp stomp!

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"So it looks like Brett Kavanaugh's accuser has been identified and, guess what, she's a progressive activist college professor who apparently scrubbed her entire social media presence before her name was made public. She sends her letter to Senator Diane Feinstein who sits on it for weeks and then, after the confirmation hearings are over, gives it to the FBI for investigation, only with the professor's name redacted. Like, what are they supposed to do with it? So the FBI says this is not a matter for them to investigate (strange as it may seem, drunken high school groping is not a federal crime) and gives the letter to the White House. And now it's being reported that the professor will be a no-show at a proposed hearing next Monday and DiFi says she can't verify that she has said is truthful. This is all so stinky that even the extremely liberal San Francisco Chronicle newspaper editorialized against it. Grassley needs to shut down this shit show before it gets out of hand. Hell, it's *already* out of hand. There's no doubt in my mind that Kavanaugh is going to get confirmed. Even if Jeff Flake goes into a fetal position, they've still got 50 once Pence parachutes in. The problem is, the Democrats never seem to suffer any consequences when they toss in these stink bombs. Which they will do the next time and the next and the GOP needs to figure out how to make them pay for it. And last, some Eeyore conservatives are already complaining that these bogus allegations of sexual misconduct will permanently taint Kavanaugh's SCOTUS career. Really? I don't think so. Tomorrow will bring another day, the progs will gin up a new outrage, and everybody will forget this national freak-out, and Kavanaugh will go to work deciding cases according to sound constitutional law. And nobody will care. Just ask Clarence Thomas."

This Made Me Laugh. Does That Make Me A Bad Conservative?

New program on US Fox News to be Children’s show in which angry children yell at adults and exult in devotion to Libertarian Death Cult. pic.twitter.com/6dUC3veOnP

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) September 18, 2018

Oh, Boy, This Ought To Be Good:

The New York Times needs your help. We’re looking for false information being spread deliberately to confuse, mislead, or influence voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. https://t.co/p3eeW5fnGm

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 18, 2018

I should start a betting pool for the number of internet comedians who will be sending in screen shots of the Times' own front page.

Dumb Tweet of the Year Candidate:

If the gop leaders don’t believe 1000 scientists regarding climate change, why would we expect them to believe one woman from Palo Alto?

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) September 18, 2018

Dumbness level = 825 millikohns

Back In My Day, We Had Kickass School Lunchboxes:

God Is a White Supremacist:

(h/t Nerkish)

Attn. @FBI: if you do move forward on Judge #Kavanagh’s 7th vetting per @SenFeinstein’s wishes, please keep in mind that the letters in

“Democrat Professor Christine Blasey Ford”

can be rearranged into

“Oops! Her story’s not firm, credible. Sad farce!”

cc @POTUS @VP

🇺🇸👍

— R. M. Huffman (@R_M_Huffman) September 17, 2018

Florida Man Attacks Neighbor With Chainsaw During Dispute Over Shrubbery https://t.co/MFAmpRCXMz pic.twitter.com/lyxkz0f2hX

— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) September 11, 2018

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact FenelonSpoke, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at

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If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to her.

Answered prayer:

8/30-Beverly reports that judge ruled in favor of conservatorship for dad’s finances which is a big relief, thanks be to God!. Brother still needs prayers for emotional healing and conversion.

9/5-SMH had surgery to have large cyst from ovary removed. Surgery was successful, (Thanks be to God, and God working through doctor and assistants) Please keep SMH in prayer for continued recovery and healing.

Prayers for Comfort after Death and Healing and strength for survivors:

8/12-TonyPetes’ father-in-law, a Korean War vet, died recently. Father-in-law had 4 sons and 1 daughter, TonyPetes’ wife. Prayers for repose of his soul and comfort for survivors.

8/24-Jane D’oh’s son’s friend-a young Marine was murdered while in Mexico. Friend's name was E.G. Prayers for strength and comfort for E.G.’s family and friends and that murderer or murderers might be held accountable and justice might prevail.

9/10-For comfort and strength for family and friends of Bruce’s cousin’s grandson. Grandson had just moved to Chicago to pursue PhD at Northwestern. Shot by two people shooting at each other at bus stop.

9/19-Comfort for LadyL- whose father just died- and for other family and friends

Requests for Continued Prayers for healing and God’s presence, and New requests:

8/15-Aelfheld’s friend in rehabilitation needs continued prayers for regaining strength and mobility.

8/15-CountryBoy had a heart attack while in doctor’s office and was taken immediately to ICU. Is home now. Needs prayers for strength, healing and recovery.

8/15-SteveOReno- Son has Bipolar 1. Was doing o.k. managing illness. but then abused drugs and had an overdose. Son is living with parents now. Please pray that he gets clean, manage bipolar and can keep his job and please "pray for his parents, too.” (Fenelon’s note).

8/17-Laughing in Tx- His wife has cancer. Has come through first cancer treatment o.k. Prayers for strength and complete healing for LIT’s wife and strength for family in this process.

8/22-NorthernLurker-Prayers for his friend Pat who has surgery for cancer and whose wife died the next day. Pat’s cancer is terminal. Also prayers for his friend Karen who has terminal cancer.

8/23 Miley reports that her brother has gone into a nursing home 8/23. He has memory issues and won’t be able to work again. Miley’s mother still has difficulties. Prayers that Miley “stay sane” and “be her best self.” during this time

8/23-ElvenPhoenix-Father, J.S. has heart disease, diabetes and end stage renal failure. Also, prayers for Mother to get through this season of her life with strength, grace and dignity. Continued prayers needed for healing from cancer and other issues:

8/27-Buzzion’s friend is attempting to get custody of ex-husband’s sister’s daughter from foster home which no longer wanted her. Friend is dealing with “flaky foster parent and difficulties of family court.” May rough places be made smooth so Buzzion’s friend can bring girl to loving home.

8/31-Northernlurker needs prayer for God’s guidance and wisdom to decide about a possible 3 month mission trip to the Philippines. Also needs God's presence for upcoming Mexico mission trip

8/31-aisq asks for prayers for son Gabriel, 27, who has rare genetic disease and needs a liver and bone marrow transplant but doctors are reluctant to put him on transplant list because of medical condition.

9/4-jjci asks for prayers that daughter-in law (and son) might be able to conceive and have a healthy baby.

9/4-neighbor asks for prayers of blessing for he and his children.

9/5-Ibguy asked to have co-workers daughter put back on prayer list. Jenna G, a young person in her 20’s or 30s has advanced MS. Prayers for healing

9/8-BCochran losing weight, has additional health and family concerns. Work is stressful Prayers for rough places to be made smooth and for healing,

9/9-From Jayhawkfan63-As a lurker who has been loyal to this place since 2007, I wanted to express my support for my son who is deployed in Erbil Iraq. I'm a vet myself and never knew about this beautiful place in the Kurdistan region of Iraq named Erbil. He sent me pics of the citadel that stretches back to the fifth millennium BC as he flew over it in his Blackhawk. If there is a thought or prayer that could head his way, that would be appreciated beyond everything.

9/12-Bill reports that his brother Bob has esophageal cancer which has metastasized. He stopped chemo and radiation because it was killing him.
Prayers for healing.

9/12-Captain Obvious asks for prayers for a young woman who developed stress fractures in knees during army basic training. Needs to heal sufficiently or will be invalided out

9/14-Fox2! reports that his brother is out of rehab and living with one brother and family, Please continue to keep him in prayer for healing

9/16 Jewell reports that her mother is back in hospice. Also has early stage heart failure and UTI. Even if UTI is wiped out she is still frail and very sick

9/14-From Mrs. Leggy -Please pray for my student Michael. He had a fist sized tumor removed from his brain in February and is now receiving chemotherapy every week to treat what remains plus another smaller tumor. Scans this week show the smaller one shrinking and the other one the same size, which is good. God love this kid, he comes to school every day except his chemo day, even though he must feel awful. Great family. They would appreciate the prayer

9/17-USNtakim-Prayers for healing for he and wife who have chronic medical conditions and pain and difficulty walking Mrs. USNtakim recently had treatment and is doing better but has nausea and headache. Please pray that this treatment for his wife is successful . USNTakin has a gene that malformed a protein that becomes toxic in cerebellum. Needs successful treatment for this.

9/16-Prayers for people affected by the storm Florence

9/17-Prayers for our country

9/17 I (Fenelon) ask for prayers for my son on 9/24. He has to go to court regarding car accident. Please pray that rough places are made smooth and that he doesn’t have too many points or huge fines.

9/20-For Sumdumchief who will be having cancer surgery this upcoming week.

Please continue to keep in prayers for healing: Lurker Phineas, John, Dave@BuffaloRoam, Grannysaurus Rex, Lurking Curate, and Mr Feverhead. All of these posters have significant health concerns, and Mr. Feverhead is trying to work his way though a divorce with best results for children, as well as dealing with cancer treatments. Also, Hrothgar has some challenges in finding help for his elderly and frail sister-in-law who lives at a distance from him. May rough places be made smooth.

Job concerns:

8/26-Red1c4IRL reports that his wife, DeDe, who works in pharmacy field lost job because of internal, unsupportive office politics, Red asked for prayers for strength and stability in search and that search for job would be short and productive. She is waiting to have a in person interview after several phone interviews.

9/11-Calm Mentor. Needs job. Very successful in inside and outside sales but hasn't been able to find work in his field. Lives in Northern Georgia. Any leads on jobs can be put in this thread or when he is on the board. ******** For information on his situation and to give donations Gofundme site is https://tinyurl.com/y7zac66o. He thanks everyone for their generosity and prayers.

9/18-Kallisto needs long term employment closer to home

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:

http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm

****Please note; For purposes of length I am trying to keep the prayer list to approximately five weeks. We will continue to pray for earlier concerns. If you would like a situation to be placed back on the prayer list, have any updates or praise reports, please notify me at: FenelonDirection18 (at sign) gmail.com, I cannot be on all the threads. Thanks, and thanks for being prayer warriors!

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Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

After The Rain
William Merritt Chase

The Morning Report 9/19/18

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Mid week and before we delve into the Kavanaugh sabotage disgrace, the other big story that is flying somewhat under the radar is the reaction to the the President's announcement that he is going to declassify documents relating to the FBI/DoJ manufactured witch hunt against his campaign and his nascent presidency (and still going strong in virtually all quarters of the bureaucracy per Project Veritas' latest revelations). The usual suspects - both figuratively and literally - are blasting the President's move as an abuse of power, threat to national security, obstruction of justice, blah blah blah, etc. That can only mean one thing; he's directly over the target and the documents will prove to all who have eyes to see and even the tiniest scintilla of a brain cell to reason that all the charges against him are a lie and that those who are screaming the aforementioned the loudest are themselves the guilty parties. Lee Smith at The Federalist lays out a fascinating unraveling of how in the waning days of the Obama Tyranny the strategy went from offense to defense, vis a vis preserving the Iran sellout and then sabotaging preventing President Trump's scrapping of it. Meanwhile, Robert Mueller is yet again trying to usurp executive branch authority by undercutting his boss' - that is, President Trump's - ability to issue a pardon to Paul Manafort. I'd say, who the hell does he think he is when, in point of fact, he has built his entire career and lived his life believing that of the American people 24/7/365. If there is a G-d in Heaven, I pray he sees fit to have Mueller thrown into the general population of a Federal prison, preferably the same one he tossed innocent people into to protect Whitey Bulger.

Now, on to the more or less main event. I am not going to go into any more details about this Accuser/Liar Ford's charges although in the RUFKM Dept., I find it interesting (read "disgusting") that the strident Leftist hack shyster who is representing her represented both Al Franken and Bill Clinton. And you'll be surprised, I'm sure, to learn of Accuser/Liar's interesting connections to Nazi collaborator George Soros and that the latter's minions are preemptively handing out bail money to rent-a-mob protestors in the event they get pinched.

It is now obvious that this woman is a paid liar in service of the Democrat-Left-Media complex. The parallel strategic goals are to sabotage Trump, fire up the base in order to protect the political hides of the old guard (Feinswine, Schemer, etc.) from the Maoists on the rise, pressure Trump into replacing Kavanaugh with a Bader-Meinhoff clone, and if successful hold onto their most powerful instrument of illegitimate policy implementation as well as in their mind fire up their base for the "Blue Wave."

From our perspective, the GOP leadership and key players including Jeff Flake of all people have apparently had it up to here (I'm pointing at my receding hairline [scalp, not crotch]) with this crap. Look, Feinswine herself is backtracking faster than a tobacco auctioneer on whether Accuser/Liar Ford is truthful or not, despite the Dems insistence on no vote until the FBI finds Kavanaugh guilty, the FBI - which has no jurisdiction on this whatsoever - has declined to investigate this, and Accuser/Liar Ford is not going to testify on Monday. Bearing all of this mind, then for the love of all that is good, Senators Grassley and McConnell should announce that the Monday additional hearing and flea circus is cancelled and that a vote in front of the full Senate will take place on Thursday.

If they do not do this, and if they allow Monday to happen (despite the optics being even worse for the Dems than they were the first time around) and if Kavanaugh is either stonewalled until after November or even until after 2020, the GOP is going to get wiped out in November. Worse than that, the Dems will now have a free pass to do this and get away with it from now on. Again, I call on Grassley and McConnell to end this garbage here and now. If you do that, I can almost guarantee a Red Wave come November. Assuming that that really is what they want, and the jury is out on that.

Last, but not least, in the REALLY R-U-F-K-M Dept., when I saw the link by Jeffrey Lord over at American Spectator my jaw just hit the floor. Cory "Blucher" Booker, the closet(ed) organizer is either utterly clueless or is a chutzpadik of such titanic radiance that it staggers the imagination, even for a Democrat (I know; embrace the power of "and"). On the verge of proclaiming himself "Spartacus" in his opposition to Brett Kavanaugh, and then as everyone in his party is seeking to destroy this good man over something that he allegedly did as a teenager, what does Booker go and do? Announce that he is sponsoring legislation to mandate leniency for teen offenders.

...If one assumes that Christine Ford's account is accurate, it happened for one reason -- the reason that no less than Cory Booker himself has -- truthfully -- asserted. Again, that is this:

Studies of youth brain development have found that the decision-making functions of the brain do not fully develop until much later than was previously believed to be the case. Despite this, some states still try 17-, and even 16,-year-olds as adults by default.

In other words? The activities of a 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh, not to mention 15-year-old Christine Blasey, were the result of immature teenagers whose "decision-making functions" were impaired to begin with because they had brains that were not "fully" developed. Not to mention that if Booker is literally sponsoring legislation that would make it the law of the land to seal youthful criminal records, there is no way that Ford's 36-years later allegation -- when no charges were even filed in the day -- should be relevant in the first place..."

Well done, Senator Booker. You're not only a despicable egomaniac but you have just confirmed yourself to be dumb as a stump. Possibly lower than a Joe Biden-level functioning imbecile. Would be nice if the GOP made some hay out of this.

Moving along to the political scene, looks like Doomberg and possibly Hickenpooper and even the Wookie with the killer triceps are eyeing a 2020 run (the latter two are not in the links), the RNC is worried that GOP voters may not turn out because they think the midterms are in the bag, Virginia students evidently never heard of Kasich's father and a big "OK" for Loopy Ocasio-Fiasco.

On the Amnesty scene, the Feds are being forced to release illegal kiddie border jumpers to illegal alien felons (why?), chain migration is a freaking disaster of a time bomb and that ultimately leads to fundamentally transforming our nation. Which is a big Leftist wet dream.

Internationally, Whoa, Fat! is once again singing PDT's praises, crisis possibly averted in Syria, the Chi-Coms retaliate with $60 billion in tariffs, IBD analysis of China vs US in a trade/tariff war, Putin doesn't blame the Jooz for controlling the weather and Syrian SAMs (but mostly Syrian SAMs), a shocking yet unsurprising video from a UK sharia law no-go zone (y'know, the ones that don't exist), and PDT putting the screws to Iran is already paying big dividends.

In First Amendment, AgitProp and Censorship, interesting take on Google becoming the Chi-Com Stasi, Daniel Greenfield shreds the Trump killed 3,000 in Puerto Rico bromide, NPR attempts to sabotage promo efforts for the "Gosnell" movie (why have we NOT defunded NPR yet?), Vanderbilt Poofter is all wet, Brett Kavanaugh's wife is a class act, and more on the Wa-Po's border passport fiction.

Domestically, as the GOP dithers on Brett Kavanaugh, they manage to pass a titanic spending bill so fast that if you blinked, you missed it, Planned Parenthood's new prexy spews lies on The Yenta Patrol, aka The View, and Hurricane Florence defies the Global Warming fraudsters' "science."

From hither and yon, Rozelle, Cosell and Dandy Don are rolling in their graves as Monday Night Football craters to a new low for week 2, an essay on Feminazi male-blaming for doing the Fluke, and the insane corporate culture at Google.

On a point of personal privilege, today marks the 2nd Anniversary of The Morning Report. Thank you to Ace for affording me the privilege to be here, the Cobs for all their support and to all of you who come here, comment and make it all worthwhile.

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

SPYGATE, MUELLER WITCH HUNT, DEEP STATE, COUP
• Exposing the Deep State Plotters
  
• Palsi, Schemer Make Last-Ditch Effort to Try to Block PDT Declassification
  
• Brennan Hopes "Individuals of Conscience" Will Block PDT's Declassification Order (bei tog zol er hengen, bei nacht zol er Brennan - jjs)
  
• Holder: Declassifying Docs "An Especially Dangerous Abuse of Power" (you should only meet Brian Terry soon and tell him that - jjs)
  
• Mueller Moves to Undercut Possible Trump Pardon of Manafort (that corrupt , lanky hunk of piss is beginning to annoy me - jjs)
  
• The Deep State Leak Campaign Against Trump Has Switched From Offense to Defense
  
  KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
  
• Kavanaugh Accuser/Liar Ford's Lawyer Longtime Dem Donor; Defended... Bill Clinton and Al Franken
  
• Flake Supports Advancing Kavanaugh if Accuser/Liar Ford Refuses to Testify
  
• Feinstein Under Fire, Scrambles to Walk Back "Truthful" Comment About Kavanaugh Accusation
  
• McConnell Rips Dems for Seeking "Political Advantage" with Kavanaugh Smear (then hold the damn vote right now, Mitch! - jjs)
  
• Nazi Collaborator Soros-Backed Activists Slip Cash to Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters Before Arrests (why has this ghoul not been deported back to Hungary and his assets seized?! - jjs)
  
• The Accuser/Liar Ford's Curious Links to Nazi Collaborator George Soros
  
• Good Roger Simon: Dems Go Full Stalin on Kavanaugh and Declassification
  
• If GOP Surrenders, They Will Ensure Dems Can Torpedo Future Nominees Just With an Accusation
  
• Democrat Endgame: Force Trump to Nominate Another Ginsburg
  
• The Other McCain: Democrats and the Rape of Justice
  
• McCarthy: Scrapping Kavanaugh's Appointment Means "the End of Civilization"
  
  FIRST AMENDMENT, FAKE NEWS, CENSORSHIP
  
• Fact Check: Do Photos Show Vanderbilt Poofter Exaggerating Photos from Hurricane Florence? (spoiler alert: yes - jjs)
  
• Class Act: Kavanaugh's Wife Hands Out Cupcakes to Reporters Jackals Besieging Her Home
  
• Google May Help the US By Setting Up Big Brother in China
  
• Wa-Po Caught Red-Handed Peddling Anti-Trump Fake News
  
• Greenfield: If Trump's Hurricane Killed 3,000, Obama's Hurricane Killed 20,000
  
• NPR Told "Gosnell" Filmmakers Not to Use the Word "Abortion" in Promo Adverts
  
  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  
• State Department Bureaucrat Caught Plotting Deep State Resistance by Project Veritas
  
  CLINTON SCANDALS, OBAMA SCANDALS, DEMOCRAT SCANDALS
  
• John Kerry: A Traitor for the Ages
  
  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION
  
• Report: Chain Migration Used to Import Entire Family Villages of Foreigners
  
• Feds Forced to Release Border-Jumping Kids to Criminals in US Illegally Themselves (why don't you nab the adult as you hand over the kid? - jjs)
  
• How to Fundamentally Transform a Country
  
  POLITICS, 2018 MIDTERMS
  
• Lord: Booker Stunner - 17-Year-Olds Too Irresponsible to Be Held Accountable for Their Actions (you mean like a teenage Brett Kavanaugh?! - jjs)
  
  
• RNC Poll Finds GOP Voters Not Worried About Midterms - That's Bad
  
• The Worst Ex-President Derby: Will Obama Overtake Carter?
  
• Will Doomberg Challenge PDT in 2020? (last I heard is he'll run as a Democrat - jjs)
  
• Virginia College Students Aren't Voting Because... Why?! (somewhere, Kasich weeps - jjs)
  
• Flashback: That Time Loopy Ocasio-Fiasco Flashed a White Power Sign
  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  
• Kim: Summit with Trump "Stabilized the Region"
  
• Trump's Hard Line on Iran Paying Big Dividends
  
• US Closely Monitoring Russia/Turkey Buffer Zone in Syria's Idlib Province
  
• Putin Refrains From Accusing Israel of Deliberately Causing Syrian Shootdown of Russky Recon Plane (he knows they were too busy controlling Hurricane Florence - jjs)
  
• Chi-Coms Fire Back with $60 Billion in New Tariffs on US Goods
  
• Can Trump's Tariffs Force Radical Changes On China?
  
  ISLAM, TERRORISM, SHARIA, DHIMMITUDE
  
• Video From UK: Muslim Gang Brutally Kicks, Stomps on Traffic Warden (coming to America [or already here]? - jjs)
  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  
• While We Weren't Looking, Senate Approves Fastest Spending Spree in History (but we have to wait on Kavanaugh?! - jjs)
  
• "Fight For $15" Stages Sex Harassment Strike Amid Own Misconduct Allegations
  
  CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL, COVER UP
  
• Francis the Talking Pope: Accused Pastors Are Like Jesus on Good Friday
  
• Brooklyn Diocese Is Paying Out One of the Largest Settlements for Sex Abuse in Church History
  
  HEALTHCARE
  
• 7 Lies Planned Parenthood's New President Pushed on The View
  
  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  
• Feds Spend $1,009,762 Training "Social Justice" Math Teachers
  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE, LYSENKOISM
  
• What's Surprising About Hurricane Florence? It Thrived In "Abnormally Cool" Waters
  
  CULTURE WARS, HITHER and YON
  
• Monday Night Football Posts Lowest Week 2 Ratings Ever Recorded
  
• No, "All Unwanted Pregnancies" Are Not Caused by the "Irresponsible Ejaculations of Men"
  
• Corporate Cult

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (9/18/18 )

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

We just starve little children, we go bomb houses.Sen. Bernie Sanders, Politburo (I-VT)

Quote II

“The government’s abject failure – and the huge risk we face of a bad deal or a no-deal Brexit – means that giving people a fresh say is now the right – and only – approach left for our country." London mayor Sadiq Khan

Quote III

“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.” George Saunders

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Bad behavior. Very bad behavior has cost a scientist big time.

The Me Too movement has toppled Hollywood executives, pundits, and bureaucrats since it burst onto the scene last year. Prompting a government agency to rename a geologic landform, however, may be a first.

Last week, the United States’ Board on Geographic Names quietly decided that Antarctica’s Marchant Glacier would now be called Matataua. A 7 mile-long ice stream located in eastern Antarctica’s Victoria Land, the glacier was originally named after Boston University geologist David Marchant in 1994. The change comes nearly a year after a BU-led investigation concluded that Marchant sexually harassed former graduate student Jane Willenbring in 1999 and 2000 while the two were doing fieldwork in Antarctica.

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Perhaps the United States should emulate the EU in this matter. The EU to stop time changes. No more Spring ahead and Fall behind.

The EU is doing away with the twice-yearly clock changes and has given member states until April to decide if they will remain on summer or winter time. But there are fears Europe is heading for time-zone chaos.

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Just when you think the Europeans have gained some common sense, they go full Snowflake.

Police in a United Kingdom precinct are urging residents to call for help when they feel insulted.

Or hurt.

Or slighted.

In a world where “snowflakes” regularly complain of “microaggressions” such as addressing an audience “ladies and gentlemen,” the South Yorkshire Police are encouraging people to “put a stop” to hate and report what they have loosely defined as “non-crime hate incidents.”

Piss off bloody wankers.

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Follicly challenged? Bizarre cures for baldness.

Since the dawn of time, a problem has haunted a section of mankind. They just can’t stop their hair from falling out. With the hair loss industry estimated to be worth almost $3 billion, it is little wonder that many people have invented weird and wonderful treatments for this perpetual problem.From the ancient Egyptians to modern man, many have tried and failed to stem the ravages of time and keep the hair on their heads. Maybe these bizarre cures didn’t work, but you have to admit they were creative.

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Kiddie porn, bestiality. One sick individual.

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You can't fool Mother Nature, But, boys can't be boys to the left.

A new University of Michigan study urges preschool teachers to avoid saying “they’re just boys being boys” or to remind girls to have “good manners,” lest those teachers accidentally “contribute to gender inequality in early childhood.”

Heidi Gansen — who previously was awarded by the American Sociological Association for her research on “heteronormativity” in preschools — published her latest study in the new issue of the journal Sex Roles.

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Remember when cars were cool? Why be cool when you can be Uncle Sam's spoiled nephew?

Cars are supposed to transport us – not parent us.

The government disagrees, of course. That’s not new. Uncle has been working hard to parent grown adults since at least the 1960s, when it first got into the saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety business.

Which of course is really the control business – and that business is as old as government itself.

Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety is just the excuse, the window dressing – the curtain behind which lies Oz.

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Are you a blade man? Do you have an extra $150 burning a hole in your pocket? Gillette has the razor for you.

It achieves that through some clever—and yes, safe—engineering. In fact, the most surprising thing about the Heated Razor may be how closely it resembles a more traditional model. At a glance, the cartridge looks quite a bit like other top-end Gillette options, and while the handle appears to add a little bit of bulk to accommodate the heating element, it’s still in line with what you’re used to.

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Do as I say, not as I do. The Left and their global warming bullshit continues.

PRIVATE JET TRAFFIC BUMPED UP 30 PERCENT DURING CALIFORNIA CLIMATE CONFERENCE

San Francisco International Airport’s corporate jet traffic rose roughly 30 percent during an international climate change conference in California, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in London at the age of 27 after choking on his own vomit. Hendrix left the message 'I need help bad man', on his managers answer phone earlier that night. Rumors and conspiracy theories grew up around Hendrix’s death. Eric Burdon claimed Jimi had committed suicide, but that’s contradicted by reports that he was in a good frame of mind. In 2009, a former Animals roadie published a book claiming that Jimi’s manager had admitted to him that he arranged the murder of Hendrix, since the guitarist wanted out of his contract. via thisdayinmusic.com

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September 18, 2006, 73 year old country singer Willie Nelson and four members from his band were charged with drug possession after marijuana and magic mushrooms were found by police on his tour bus. Police had stopped the tour bus near Lafayette, Louisiana. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Part Midas, part shit. Genius Award Winner.

A man has been arrested by the Customs department at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle in one kg gold by hiding it in his rectum, an official statement said Wednesday.

The 24-year-old passenger was intercepted upon his arrival from Dubai on Monday, it said.

On detailed baggage examination and personal search, it was discovered that the accused had hidden nine gold bars, weighing 1.04 kg, inside his rectum, the release said.

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Normally closed on Sunday, not when it really mattered the most. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Plumbing Advice.

Notice: Posted with permission by The Ace Media Empire and its subsidiary AceCorp, LLC. The ONT may or may not be hazardous to your health.

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Breaking: Kavanaugh's Accuser Says She Won't Testify Until The FBI, Which Has Already Declined to Investigate Her Non-Federal-Jurisdiction 37 Year Old Allegations, Completes Its Investigation, Sometime After a Democrat is President

—Ace of Spades

Coming over Tucker Carlson: After saying she would testify, she now says she won't, not until the FBI investigation (which is not happening) is completed.

Strangely enough, this tracks perfectly with the Democrats' talking points that the FBI must conduct a long, slow investigation which, conveniently enough, delays the vote until after the midterms.

And what would Republicans do then?

Well, believe it or not, even Jeff Flake says if she doesn't testify, then they just move forward with the confirmation:

And Jim Acosta decided to deceptively edit a Kavanaugh clip to create even more CNN #FakeNews.

New York Times to Issue Correction After Mistaking Academy Award Nominated Actress Angela Basset for... Omarosa

—Ace of Spades

Racism, straight-up.

By the way, did Angela Basset get nominated for an Oscar? I don't know. I assume she must have, at some point. Makes for a better headline-- so I guess, like the media, I don't care if it's true or not.

WSJ: Questions Multiply About Blasey-Ford's Memory, and Motives

—Ace of Spades

A couple of good points here:

The woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a drunken assault when both were teenagers has now come forward publicly, and on Monday it caused Republicans to delay a confirmation vote and schedule another public hearing. Yet there is no way to confirm her story after 36 years, and to let it stop Mr. Kavanaugh's confirmation would ratify what has all the earmarks of a calculated political ambush.

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Ms. Ford concedes she told no one about it--not even a high school girl friend or family member--until 2012 when she told the story as part of couples therapy with her husband.

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The Post reports that the therapist's notes from 2012 say there were four male assailants, but Ms. Ford says that was a mistake. Ms. Ford also can't recall in whose home the alleged assault took place, how she got there, or how she got home that evening.

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The Post says Ms. Ford contacted the paper via a tip line in July but wanted to remain anonymous. She then brought her story to a Democratic official while still hoping to stay anonymous.

Yet she also then retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, who has a history of Democratic activism and spoke in public defense of Bill Clinton against the accusations by Paula Jones. Ms. Katz urged Ms. Ford to take a polygraph test. The Post says she passed the polygraph, though a polygraph merely shows that she believes the story she is telling.

The more relevant question is why go to such lengths if Ms. Ford really wanted her name to stay a secret? Even this weekend she could have chosen to remain anonymous. These are the actions of someone who was prepared to go public from the beginning if she had to.

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It would also be a serious injustice to a man who has by all accounts other than Ms. Ford's led a life of respect for women and the law. Every #MeToo miscreant is a repeat offender. The accusation against Mr. Kavanaugh is behavior manifested nowhere else in his life.

The WSJ's editors suggest this is all just a failure of memory, trying to avoid the inevitable claim that "you're smearing a victim."

But that's the very question that needs to be resolved first --whether she is in fact a victim. If she's not a victim, you can't just say "You're smearing a victim." That's begging the question, using the very claim that is in need of proving to help prove itself.

Meanwhile, Dianne Feinstein offers a ringing endorsement of Blasey-Ford's shaky powers of recollection, saying she cannot attest that everything Ford says is truthful:

Well I'm sold.

Former Fusion GPS Employee: Almost Every Claim We Made About Paul Manafort Was Wrong and I Regret Having Pushed This Hoax On to the Public

—Ace of Spades

Chuck Ross reporting.

#SalonHot25 hardest hit.

A former contractor for Fusion GPS claims the opposition research firm got its investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort "almost completely wrong."

Graham Stack, who was hired by Fusion GPS in July 2016, writes in the Kyiv Post that he "share[s] the blame" for creating what he now says is a false narrative that Manafort worked for the Ukrainian government to advance a pro-Russia agenda.

"There have been scores of media articles about Manafort -- and 90 percent regurgitate the simplistic narrative of Manafort as a Kremlin trojan horse," Stack wrote at the Kyiv Post.

"This narrative was developed by Washington commercial intelligence firm Fusion GPS in 2016, as part of their now famous dossier on Trump, distributed widely among major media outlets," Stack continued.

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Stack, who has written for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, argues that Manafort's work in Ukraine did not advance Russia’s interests.

"What we got wrong about Manafort -- and what Mueller has got partly right in his indictment -- is that Manafort was nothing like a pro-Kremlin influence on the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, as the dossier alleged. Instead, Manafort was one of the driving forces pushing Yanukovych towards signing the agreement with the EU. The Kremlin has every reason to hate him," Stack wrote.

"Manafort was amazingly successful in bringing Ukraine into the Western fold," he said.

OUT: Manafort is a secret agent for Russia

IN: Manafort is a double-super-secret agent for the E.U.

ABC News Political Director and Noted Thumb Matthew J. Dowd: It Doesn't Matter Whether Christine Blasey-Ford's Accusations Are True or Not; We Must Treat Kavaugh as Guilty to Vindicate a Higher Social Justice

—Ace of Spades

People often don't think about what "social justice" means. It means group justice, as contrasted with individual justice. Social Justice Warriors always claim race- and gender-based privileges (you know, like racists and sexists do) on the theory that "social justice" -- justice for an entire group's asserted challenges -- trumps any considerations of individual justice, individual merit, or individual achievement.

Noted leftwing troll and thumb Matt Dowd promotes the idea that social justice for a group comprising 51% of the world's population must trump any considerations of individual justice for Brett Kavanaugh.

Or Christine Blasey-Ford, for that matter -- whether or not not she was wronged just doesn't matter. What matters is that some women somewhere were wronged, and we must burn this scapegoat Kavanaugh to please our New Gods of Gender and Race.

New Project Veritas Sting Video Series Catches State Department Official Bragging About #Resistance Activities

—Ace of Spades

More to come, as usual.

This Is CNN: Thumb Chris Cillizza Says It's "Walking a Very Dangerous Line" to Ask Kavanaugh's Accuser When and Where This Assault Is Supposed to Have Taken Place

—Ace of Spades

Seared, seared into her memory.

But she doesn't remember where it happened, when it happened, or who else was there.

And asking those questions is "very dangerous," says CNN's Special Thumb for Snowflake Advocacy.

Meanwhile, Kavanaugh's accuser is ready to testify, except for the actual testifying part.

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of high-school-era sexual assault, has so far ignored repeated inquiries from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley told Hugh Hewitt Tuesday.

Grassley announced Monday that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the woman’s accusations, which surfaced Sunday after Blasey Ford granted an interview to The Washington Post. The senator noted to Hewitt, however, that he had reached out to Ford and her attorney "three or four times" in the last 36 hours but has yet to receive any communication.

"It kinda raises the question: Do they want to come to the public hearing or not?" he inquired.

No, they don't. They want this accusation to be reported only by friendly media, with no one asking impertinent questions about when or where it is supposed to have happened. She will "testify" by lawyer and by media.

Meanwhile, the plan calls for Kavanaugh to be hailed back in front of the committee to be grilled not just on this woman's (not under oath) claims but anything else they can think of to embarrass him, like if he's ever touched a woman's boob without getting strict verbal consent and how many times he's been drunk in his life.

Anne Hathaway Gets #WOKE, Demands We "Tear This World Apart" and Reject White Cishet Privilege (Of the Sort She Enjoys)

—Ace of Spades

Here's the background on this:

Everyone pretty much hates Anne Hathaway, also known as Brunette Linsay Lohan.

The public has turned on her. Her career is in steep decline. (She wasn't even a main star in Oceans 8.)

They find her false and desperate in her Oscar-grubbing.

So, who knows, maybe she's going the Tammy Faye Baker route and trying to get new fans by being Super-#Woke.

Actress Anne Hathaway told an audience Saturday night that she’s been frightened by the hatred of LGBT people that bigots spew -- but a speech by former Vice President Joe Biden went a long way to restoring her faith.

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Hathaway said she felt better after hearing speeches from Biden and HRC president Chad Griffin, who spoke earlier in the evening.

"You guys just gave me my heart back," Hathaway gushed.

Then, speaking to the ladies, gentlemen and "gentlethem" in the crowd, Hathaway denounced white, straight and cisgender privilege.

"It is important to acknowledge with the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth," she said.

"That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness."

Hathaway explained that it was when she spent time with the LGBTQ community -- her older brother is gay - -that she learned to reject this myth.

"I appreciate this community because together we are not going to just question this myth, we are going to destroy it," she told the crowd.

"Let's tear this world apart and build a better one."

The Morning Rant: J.V. Edition

—CBD

For Menendez to do anything but shut his mouth and meekly vote the way he is told by his superiors in the DNC is a travesty, and something that would be trumpeted from the mountaintop by an honest and impartial media. But...he is a Democrat and therefore off limits.

The milquetoast Republican challenger to Menendez' Senate seat has a non-zero chance of upsetting him in the November election, but I have no doubt that Menendez has mobilized his crooks and thieves and precinct captains and underage hookers to massage the vote, so he can maintain the style of life to which he has become accustomed, courtesy of the United States taxpayer.

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The Left has no shame, no morality, no respect for life. What do they have? A lust for power and domination.

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Hurricanes, Death Tolls, and Trump

It’s Hurricane Katrina all over again.

Since the election of climate denier Donald Trump, the politicization of major hurricanes—along with a torrent of hysterical news coverage and blame-laying—is back en vogue. During last year’s unusually active hurricane season, the media, Democratic politicians and scientific activists claimed the devastating storms were Trump’s fault even though he had been president for less than a year; some suggested voters in the red states that helped elect Trump deserved to have their property destroyed or even to be killed. (The Washington Post editorial board already this week has blamed Trump for Hurricane Florence).

George W. Bush never politically recovered from the fallout of Katrina in 2005; the Left and NeverTrump are now following that successful playbook against the current Republican president.

That’s why the media and political class continue to rehash Hurricane Maria, which ravaged the island of Puerto Rico just over a year ago. They want this to be Trump’s Katrina. Amid the release of a scientifically questionable report last month that significantly raised the number of deaths attributable to Maria, Trump is again on the defensive about his culpability in the tragedy. In two tweets Thursday morning, Trump rejected the study’s estimate that 2,975 people died because of Maria-related causes, and that Democrats were using the dubious report to “in order to make me look as bad as possible.”

He’s right.

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Citing BDS, professor refuses to write reference for student to study in Israel

The state of Michigan passed a law last year prohibiting boycotts against individuals or a public entities of a foreign state. Without explicitly mentioning Israel, the measure restricts all state agencies from entering contracts with individuals who engage in a "boycott of a person based in or doing business with a strategic partner."

Fire the professor.

He broke the law, has no respect for academic Independence and integrity, and dresses like an asshole.

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Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

Domine Quo Vadis?
Annibale Carracci

The Morning Report 9/18/18

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Tuesday and the disgusting and frankly dangerous attempt to derail Brett Kavanaugh's deserved appointment as an associate justice to the SCOTUS continues along with the President's decision to declassify all the FBI and DoJ documents, transcripts etc. related to the investigation-cum-sabotage campaign of his 2016 presidential campaign. And do not think that these two subjects are unrelated. They are one and the same. The effort to destroy this President has many fronts and many agents but the overall goal and message is crystal clear to all who have eyes to see: any attempt to reverse the 100+ year counter-American Revolution will be crushed. If you run as a reformer you will have your character assassinated (if not the target of an actual assassination), if you either win an election as a reformer or are appointed to office by one and share the same goal, you face the same threats (see the lead piece from Breitbart about the State Department). And if you are an originalist jurist who believes that the Constitution as written is not fungible and/or "a living and breathing document," as the IBD editorial states:

This is about sending a warning.

Democrats are warning conservatives, and those who would appoint them, that they will do anything to derail their nominations. That includes flagrant attempts at character assassination -- even if that requires throwing out unverifiable allegations from the distant past at the 11th hour.

At this point, the only real question that needs an answer is whether Republicans will reward Democrats for their craven attempts to scare highly qualified conservatives away from public service.

Bingo.

And that's why the link to the Washington Times piece that GOP Senate candidates now have to tread lightly on the campaign trail because of this is total bullshit and just making me incandescent with rage. Even considering the dynamics of the anti-Trump Republicans, whether it's Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Janice Rogers Brown and now Brett Kavanaugh (to say nothing of the scores of cabinet nominees and political candidates over the last 30 years or more), this is all part of the same goddam orchestrated playbook from the Dem-Left-Media Complex. Use a smear, even one like this that is so patently obvious in the way it was vomited up by Dianne Feinstein as a weapon to hold over the heads of the GOP and make them cower in fear, apologize and then demand the withdrawal of the nominee for the good of country. The GOP either believes this or, more likely, pretends to believe this so as not to throw a wrench into the machine of the perpetual Leftward/over-the-cliff/globalist drift of the nation that has been preordained since forever.

Fuck that. THIS IS WAR. If you are running for Senate and you do not see this you really have no business seeking the job. The GOP for now is in the driver's seat. The reputation of the press and Leftists is in the toilet, and this President won by exposing them for the frauds, perverts and criminals that they are. What is being done to Brett Kavanaugh - unless absolutely 100% bona fide incontrovertible evidence comes forward to say otherwise - is an absolute travesty and a crime. If Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley full-throatedly went to the cameras and stated this flat out, cheers and applause would break out across the land at a volume that even John McCain and Ted Kennedy - the father of "Borking" - would hear even as they molder in their graves.

But, alas, we have to endure what is sure to be a flea circus and freak show come Monday, when Brett Kavanaugh and the lying, psycho, piece-of-shit Leftist slag testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, no doubt interrupted by Democrat confederates (heh!) intentionally brought in to fill the galleries and make a spectacle in front of the TV cameras. That is if Feinstein, Spartacus, Kamala-Toe and the other Democrats let them get a word in edgewise. I guess on a positive note, the delay is only until Monday, all of the aforementioned will go over with the public perhaps even worse than it did on the first day of the initial hearings, and maybe Accuser/Liar Ford won't even show up. And Feinstein refusing to cooperate with Grassley now that she's pulled this loathsome stunt speaks volumes, or at least it should. Meh - they're huddling now to get their story straight as well as pay off people to come forward and "corroborate her harrowing ordeal" of being ignored as a Janis Ian "At 17" wallflower - which of course is the same as rape.

I find it funny, disgusting funny not ha-ha- funny, that every nominee put up by the Democrats sails through because the GOP feels compelled to give deference to a sitting Democrat president's picks. Ruth Bader-Meinhoff, a loathsome old prune who has a complete disregard for our laws, Constitution and customs and even recommended the South African constitution over own as a model to be emulated (does that include the land expropriation?) and formerly served as the general counsel for the ACLU sailed through on a 96-3 vote (I hereby propose sainthood for Jesse Helms, Robert Smith and Don Reigle). This is madness. But is that worse than letting Robert Bork get borked and then "settling" for Anthony Kennedy? Like a choice between projectile colitis and shingles of the eye.

The GOP better confirm Brett Kavanaugh. That's all I can say. And I hope that going forward, no matter what happens, every nominee that this President puts forward is an originalist/strict constructionist. It's a winning campaign issue. It's just a pity we don't have a party that represents us going into the midterms to take full advantage of it.

Speaking of coups, the President late yesterday has authorized the release of all the FBI, DoJ documents and materials related to the "investigation" (read: sabotage) of his 2016 presidential campaign and everything that came after it. Aside from being long overdue IMHO and the 100% right thing to do, I suppose one can look at it as PDT's way of sucking the air out of the Feinstein Kavanaugh smear. Or is that so big that we'll get just the opposite? In any case the abuse of FISA, those who abused it and for what purpose will be revealed as the documents are examined. Not by the press of course, but by the real media such as you find on these pages. Again, I hope the Kavanaugh mess does not suck the air out of this because the revelations are going to be dynamite. But, all things considered, the prospect of lengthy terms in Leavenworth let alone a date with the hangman are seriously in doubt. But at least Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States of America. And that can be taken literally and sarcastically right about now.

On to better news, on the Amnesty front the administration has cut refugee admittances to 30,000 which is a record low, the ACLU is admitting that so-called refugee families are splitting apart in order to game our system, the Wa-Po Nat'l Laugher lie about border passport denials has been blown to pieces and Sanctuary Cities love sex offenders. Meh, Future Democrats gotta Democrat.

In politics, Keith "Wife Beater" Ellison is actually in a dead heat with his GOP challenger, Joe Biden out-deplorables the word "deplorable," Bill Nelson is on board with Joo-hater Gillum to try and drum up black support, and Chris Collins though indicted will fight on for the GOP. Our hero.

On the international scene, Iran is about to get hit hard with sanctions, a Russky recon plane goes down over the Syrian coast and is a possible victim of friendly fire (heh), the "Fight for 15!" is killing what is still alive in Venezuela and goulash backlash as the EU is going after Hungary's Viktor Orban.

From hither and yon, the Trump effect hits Latinos with their biggest increase in household income ever, back to college and another year of indoctrination, and "boys will be boys" is hate speech.

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

SPYGATE, MUELLER WITCH HUNT, DEEP STATE, COUP

• Deep State Exposed: Investigation Uncovers Foggy Bottom Anti-Trump Leak Factory
  
• PDT Orders Declassification of FBI, DoJ Documents
  
• Nunes: "Laughable" to Argue Trump's Declassification Order Jeopardizes National Security
  
  KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
  
• Kavanaugh, Accuser/Liar Set For High-Stakes Senate Showdown (if she even shows up - jjs)
  
• Kavanaugh Goes Further Than Denial - His Statement Will Make or Break Him
  
• Rush Limbaugh: An Orchestrated Democrat Smear
  
• Last-Minute Attack on Kavanaugh Is Meant as a Warning to All Conservatives
  
• Judge Kavanaugh Meets Anita Hill
  
• Grassley: Feinstein's Office Not Cooperating with Scheduling Follow-Up Calls with Kavanaugh and Accuser/Liar
  
• Graham: "They Can't Beat Him on the Law So They Are Trying to Destroy His Life"
  
• Kavanaugh Vote Becomes Landmine for GOP Candidates in Senate Races (why, dammit?! - jjs)
  
• If Kavanaugh Goes Down, Probably Impossible to Confirm a New Nominee This Year
  
• Two Women Who Dated Kavanaugh Come Forward, Call BS, Confirm the Support of the 65 Women
  
• Senate's "Appalling" Behavior Will Become "Free-For-All Circus" Amid Kavanaugh Allegations
  
• A Note on the Lingering Merrick Garland Canard
  
• The Case for Equal Opportunity Investigation (too bad we don't have a party that will do that - jjs)
  
• Dirty, Dirty Dirt
  
  FIRST AMENDMENT, FAKE NEWS, CENSORSHIP
  
• Greenfield: A New Color of Censorship From the SPLC
  
  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  
• Maxine "Dirty" Waters Suggests "Knocking Off Trump Then "Going After" Pence
  
• Hello, Liberals: Can You Spell F-A-S-C-I-S-M?
  
  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION
  
• ACLU Admits That Deported Illegals Intentionally Splitting Families Up to Game Asylum
  
• A Needed Pause: Trump Administration Caps Refugee Admissions at Record-Low 30,000 (good but could be even better at zero - jjs)
  
• Wa-Po's Attempted Passport-Denial Smear of PDT Administration Crashes and Burns
  
• Sanctuary Policies Protect Sex Offenders
  
  POLITICS, 2018 MIDTERMS
  
• Keith "Still Beating His Wife" Ellison in Dead Heat with GOP Challenger in MN AG Race
  
• Bill Nelson Embraces Anti-Semite, Anti-American Gillum in Bid to Energize Black Voters (I would hope a significant number do not have Gillum's bent - jjs)
  
• Joe "Copperfield-Cop-a-feel" Biden: "Dregs of Society" Support Donald Trump
  
• GOP Rep Chris Collins Reverses Course, Will Stay on Ballot Despite Indictment
  
  SECOND AMENDMENT
  
• Beato "Agarn" O'Rourke Continues Attack on NRA, Pushes for Gun Control
  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  
• Pompeo on Iran: "Make No Mistake... Come November 4th, There Will Be a Fundamentally Different Set of Rules"
  
• International Businesses, Banks Flee Iran as Administration Prepares Harsh Sanctions
  
• Russky Military Plane Vanishes Over Syrian Mediterranean Coast
  
• Playing Hardball with Hungary (baszd meg, az anya pitchaya to the EU - jjs)
  
• Minimum Wage Hikes: Economic Poison for Venezuela
  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  
• Census Bureau: Latino Household Income Hits All-Time High
  
• How PC Threatens the World Economy
  
• Million Dollar Mistake: Overtaxing the Rich Is Foolhardy
  
  CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL, COVER UP
  
• When Will Cardinal Wuerl Let Me Return to Mass?
  
  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  
• K-12: The War on STEM
  
• Professor Refuses to Write Letter of Recommendation for Student Wanting to Study Abroad in Israel
  
• A New Academic Year at America's Colleges
  
• Related: Reeducation Camps
  
  CULTURE WARS, HITHER and YON
  
• Study Warns Against Saying "Boys Will Be Boys"
  
• For Those Keen on Self-Abuse or Needing An Emetic, a Recap of Last Night's Emmy Awards

UPDATE: Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, starts at sundown. May you have an easy fast and be inscribed in the Book of Life! - jjs

Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/17/18 )

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. Warren E. Burger

Quote II

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. Jordan Peterson

Quote III

“Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch. “She didn’t say anything in the confirmation hearing, she didn’t say anything in our confidential session with Judge Kavanaugh when the senators and the nominee met privately. And now, after it’s all over, she produces the letter.” Sen. John N. Kennedy, (R-LA)

Quote IV

Colin Kaepernick has the absolute right to protest anything he damn well pleases. I don’t dispute that for one second. My father, my husband, and many, many friends have all served this country and were willing to fight for his right to kneel.

But that right goes both ways. I also have a right to express my disgust at your decision to portray him as some kind of hero. What, exactly has Colin Kaepernick sacrificed? His multi-million dollar paycheck…? Nope, you already gave him one of those. His reputation? No, he’s been fawned over by celebrities and media alike. Funny, Tim Tebow was never called courageous when he knelt. Sherry Graham

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No dementia patient left behind.

The National Institutes of Health is spending over $100,000 studying elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who have Alzheimer's but do not have HIV.

The "novel investigation" is part of the "Rainbows of Aging" research being conducted by the University of California, San Francisco. The study began last month.

"By 2030, there will be nearly six million sexual and gender minority (SGM) older adults aged 60 and older in the U.S. who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender," according to the grant for the project. "Approximately 350,000 SGM older adults in the U.S. currently have Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with projections nearing one million by 2030."

"Yet, almost nothing is known about the prevalence or risk of ADRD in SGM older adults without HIV/AIDS," the grant states.

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You too can be a dreg of society.

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Why isn't the old hag Diane Feinstein up in arms about this recent history?

Gillum also boasts ties to Dream Defenders, a radical left-wing organization that supports the Black Lives Matter movement, wants to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and has repeatedly falsely accused Israel of perpetuating a “genocide” on the terror-affiliated Palestinians.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, during a trip to the region in 2016, Dream Defenders hired a convicted Muslim terrorist, Mahmoud Jeddah, as a tour guide

“Jeddah, a onetime member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, spent 17 years in an Israeli prison for planting four hand grenades on a Jerusalem street, wounding nine civilians. He was later released in a prisoner swap,” the Beacon noted.

And yet Gillum is proud of his ties to this group:

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Instead of surgery and drugs, maybe it's time to address what is a mental health issue. Alarming findings concerning transgender teens.

One in every two transgender adolescents who are born female but identify as male has attempted suicide in the past year, according to a new study.

The study, “Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior,” was published in Pediatrics, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

It raises serious questions about how families, schools, doctors, government, and the media should grapple with the increasing number of children and teens who self-identify as transgender.

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Men are to blame for all unwanted pregnancies.

Just playing devil's advocate here. If you can only get pregnant 2 days of the month why don't you keep your legs together for those 2 days?

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Real flamethrowers vs. not a flamethrower.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

September 17, 1950, Born on this day, Fee Waybill, vocals, with American band The Tubes known for their 1977 hit single 'White Punks On Dope' and the 1983 US No.10 single 'She's A Beauty'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Good to see Canada following the United States Nanny State rules and regulations. Say "goodbye" to Trans Fats.

Artificial trans fats are expected to be officially banned from Canada's food supply on Monday — a move that comes almost 15 years after a majority of MPs voted in support of it.

The ban will see Health Canada add partially hydrogenated oils — the main source of trans fats in foods — to its "List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances."

The oils are used in the production of pastries, other baked goods and some packaged goods in order to extend shelf life. But they also raise levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad," cholesterol in the blood, while lowering levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good," cholesterol.

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When fleeing the police one should only be concentrated on that feat. Not so for tonight's Genius Award Winner.

CENTRALIA — Authorities say a Vancouver woman was inhaling fumes from a canister while eluding police in a chase that spanned several streets and ended with a wrong-way crash Monday in downtown Centralia.

Robin Rae Wick, 52, who reportedly has a history of running from officers, was arrested following the pursuit and charged with attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle, driving under the influence, hit and run and unlawful inhalation of fumes. Lewis County Superior Court Judge Joely O’Rourke placed Wick on a $250,000 cash bond at her preliminary appearance Tuesday afternoon.

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Cops eat more than donuts. They enjoy a pizza party as well in Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Police cruisers from Hopewell Township, Aliquippa, state police and the Beaver County sheriff’s office lined the parking lot of Fox’s Pizza on Friday afternoon, but there was no emergency.

It was Jeffrey McCarty’s ninth birthday and his second annual police pizza party he held to celebrate his appreciation of local law enforcement.

“We don’t have a lot of family out here, but we have a lot of blue line family here,” said Ashley Matesic, Jeffrey’s mother.

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Close it up

Kavanaugh and His Accuser Will Testify on Monday; Confirmation Vote Delayed

—Ace of Spades

Well, at least there's still 60 days until the election. There's some room in the schedule.

Meanwhile, the legal adviser for Blasey Ford (the accuser)*, says that it's not up to her to corroborate her client's story, and if her client can't even say when or where this party allegedly took place, well, you'll just have to believe her anyway, like we believed the Duke Rape Hoaxer or Jackie Coakley.

During the interview, Katz revealed that there was another girl present at the party, which allegedly took place in 1982 while Kavanaugh was attending Georgetown Prep. Ford previously told the Washington Post that there were four boys at the party but never indicated if there were other girls beside herself.

"While we have you, perhaps you can help us fill in the blanks on some of her story. She says that she was at a party in probably 1982 in Montgomery County, Maryland. She says that there were four guys there, these are high school students, as was she. There were four guys there. Were there any girls there that day?" anchor Alisyn Camerota asked.

"Yes, there was another girl at this party, yes," Katz said.

Camerota asked if Ford has tried to talk to any of the other partygoers to see if they will corroborate her story, but Katz declined to place the burden of proof on her client.

"That's not her job to do that. If this is going to be investigated, it should be done by investigators," Katz asserted.

* CNN's legal analyst said that Kavanaugh, by hiring a lawyer, must have feared being prosecuted for lying. But Blasey-Ford hired a lawyer -- or a legal adviser -- first.

Does she also fear prosecution for perjury? Or does this logic only work the way left-wing CNN wants it too?

CNN's "Legal Analyst:" Kavanaugh Hired a Lawyer to Defend Him Against These Accusations, So He Must be Guilty of Attempted Rape or Lying to Congress

—Ace of Spades

This. Is. CNN.

And this is a banana.

Meanwhile, CNN is tearing its hair out claiming the unredacted FBI texts are a threat to "national security:"

A twitter user suggests that the unredacted texts might contain references to reporters the FBI officials are leaking to, which seems possible.

Sean Davis is also dubious of CNN's hysteria.

Fixed. I put the right tweet in. Sorry.

Trump: I'm Going to Declassify Those Redacted FISA Application Pages That Supposedly Establish My Guilt and Would Result in My Impeachment if the Public Knew About Them

—Ace of Spades

Yeah, all the evidence of his guilt has been lurking secretly in those redacted pages -- redacted to spare him, not the FBI! -- but he's going to rat on himself anyway.

Statement of the Press Secretary

At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.

In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.

Unredacted.

Commenters mention comparing the redacted texts to the unredacted ones -- to establish these redactions are about sparing the DOJ/FBI embarrassment, not protecting nationals security.

Here's the Fletch theme and other pieces from the movie to get you in the mood for the coming twists. (Which may be flaming skull worthy.)

Ahoy: Commodore Cuck Says He's Building a "War Machine" in the GOP to Challenge Trump in 2020

—Ace of Spades

Cap'n Bill is building a cruise ship to the future.

Conservative commentator and outspoken "Never Trump" critic Bill Kristol says he is building a "war machine" within the Republican party to challenge President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, according to CNBC.

Kristol told the network that he's preparing "for a primary run against Trump," adding that Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is on his shortlist of possible candidates.

You had my interest, but now you've got my attention.

I hear some sexually frustrated wives call their marital aids "War Machine." But that's just what I hear.

Cuck Cruise Rating:

🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢

4 out of 5 cabins on a cuck cruise.

Susan Collins Statement Is Kind of Empty and Doesn't Move the Ball Much

—Ace of Spades

She wonders why this letter was not released until after the hearings.

Wants both parties under oath and both parties asked "a lot of questions."

She says in a Friday phone call with Kavanaugh, he "emphatically denied" the accusations and says he "never acted that way with this then-unnamed woman or any other woman." She adds again that he was "absolutely emphatic."

She does say that if it's proven he lied, then that would be "obviously disqualifying."

Asked at the end what she would do if this is merely a "he said she said" situation with no dispositive evidence either way, she wouldn't say what she'd do. She said instead something like "that's why it's important to get these questions answered under oath."

#MeSue: Asia Argento Threatens Lawsuit Against Fellow Nutter Rose McGowan

—Ace of Spades

You've got your Borderline Personality Disorder in my Persecution-Messiah Complex! No, you've got your Persecution-Messiah Complex in my Borderline Personality Disorder!

Asia Argento is threatening legal action against Rose McGowan. On Twitter, Argento gave McGowan 24 hours to retract claims she made detailing how she discovered that Argento had reportedly paid off actor Jimmy Bennett, who alleges the actress assaulted him when he was 17 years old.

"Dear @RoseMcGowan," Argento tweeted."It is with genuine regret that I am giving you 24 hours to retract and apologise for the horrendous lies made against me in your statement of August 27th. If you fail to address this libel I will have no option other than to take immediate legal action."

...

After the story broke, McGowan said that her partner, Rain Dove, told her that Argento said she had slept with Bennett when he was underage and that she had been receiving unsolicited nude photos of Bennett since he was 12 years old.

Rain Dove?

These people are nuttier than a Snickers bar.

Democrats Refusing to Cooperate in Scheduling Follow-Up Calls With Kavanaugh's Accuser

—Ace of Spades

For some reason they don't seem to want their 11th-Hour Accuser participating in an investigation.

Because they don't want an investigation. They just want Republicans to fold. And as soon as one Republican folds, that gives Trump State Democrat Senators permission to vote "no" as well.

And of course, Flake and Corker are already making all kinds of noise about folding.

They're exactly who we thought they were.

Lisa Page Admits No Evidence of Collusion When They Opened Investigation, Raising Questions About Her Desperation to "Open the Case" "In a Formal Chargeable Way"

—Ace of Spades

They had no evidence, but they were determined to find some.

I was assured by my establishment betters that no one in the entire Department of Justice would do such a thing, ever.

Text messages from disgraced FBI figures Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, discussing whether to open a "case" in a "formal chargeable way" after Director James Comey was fired, are under fresh scrutiny after Page told congressional investigators there was no evidence of Russian collusion at the time, according to three congressional sources.

Two hours after Comey's termination became public on May 9, 2017, Strzok, a now-former FBI agent, texted Page, his then-colleague and lover: "We need to open the case we've been waiting on now while Andy is acting."

"Andy" is a reference to then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who temporarily took over the bureau until Christopher Wray was confirmed as director in August 2017.

Page, a former FBI attorney, replied to Strzok: "We need to lock in (redacted). In a formal chargeable way. Soon."

Trump's tweet about this below.

#FakeNews Reporter Stages Dramatic Storm Footage;
Brian "Tater" Stelter Defends

—Ace of Spades

Blood in, blood out.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Let's not go back to the old ways. I'm talking about these hippy-dippy types who style themselves 'pagans' who think we should regress back to the days when we all lived under a benificent matriarchy where everybody was happy and groovy and smoked pot all day and there were no wars or fighting. They actually believe this. But of course, it wasn't that way at all. There weren't any matriarchies, but there was a lot of fighting and wars and blood, not to mention human sacrifice. And would they really like to live in a culture with religious ceremonies wherein metal idols were superheated by fire and then infant children were placed alive in their arms to be burned to death to appease the gods? Is that what they want? No, of course it isn't, but there is a big reason why such practices are now nothing but distant specks in history's rear view mirror. It starts with the letter 'C'. The smelly hippie pagans hate it and curse it mightily, but they can only do so because they were born in a culture which is permeated by its norms and values. They're too ignorant to know how much of this is coloring their view of what they think paganism is. Or was. But it's not, and never was. So as I said, let's not go back there again. It's a brutal, barbaric place that we're well rid of."

What Could Go Wrong?

"Is anybody really surprised?"

It's Kind of Like This:

Any of You Cryptology Buffs Want To Take A Crack At This?

In 1865, a widower erected an encrypted tombstone in Wellesley, Canada, in memory of his two wives. Its message was not decoded until 1947. pic.twitter.com/h4pG7M4hiY

— Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks) September 1, 2018

Residents Of Florida Urged To Evacuate, Not Because Of Hurricane But Just Because It’s Floridahttps://t.co/IsdBIkDOOJ pic.twitter.com/rOS1xwr7jh

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 14, 2018

And Speaking of Florida...

A Florida man needed a ride home when he was released from the hospital. So police say he stole an ambulance. https://t.co/cxvdG6jNat

— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) September 16, 2018

Close it up

Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

Snow Storm - Steam Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
Joseph Mallord William Turner

Every time I look at a Turner I think something different. Sometimes it is awe of his fantastic skill at evoking elemental forces, and sometimes it's, "Huh? What the fvck?"

The Morning Report 9/17/18

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. In the lead as we head into a new week is the blatant, last-second, desperate Alinskyite smear of Brett Kavanaugh less than a week before his nomination comes up for a vote in the Senate on Thursday. Even if I'm being generous, this thing stinks to high Heaven. The fact that Dianne Feinstein knew about this from the moment the President announced Kavanaugh's nomination, (and considering the President had a list of potential nominees months ago, you can bet your ass the Dems had dozens if not hundreds of people working to dig up dirt on all of them) and yet said nothing until the absolute last second means that she used this information - true or not - as a weapon to torpedo the nominee. I put Michael Ledeen's piece up front because this woman is attempting to destroy a decent, honest jurist and family man and yet she has spent the better part of almost four decades embellishing her bank account while unwittingly - or not - against the will of the people and at the expense of this nation's national security. But I digress...

On a granular level, the accuser, one Christine Blasey Ford (big anti-Trump Lefty, surprise surprise) has now officially come forward after allegedly telling her Congress-critter, Democrat hack Anna Eshoo and then Feinstein that she did not want her allegations made public (then why even tell her in the first place?). But now, she claims that she feared for her life as Kavanaugh supposedly tried to rip her clothes off and rape her at someone's house when both were in high school. A supposed witness to the event who was identified in the report, who no doubt the Dems were relying on to corroborate the story is vehemently denying it.

But none of this matters at all. This is a straight-up character assassination and minus the details is a rerun of the "high-tech lynching" that was perpetrated on Justice Clarence Thomas back in 1991. In fact, I highly recommend the second link "Dianne Feinstein's Metzenbaum Moment" (I did not know, or didn't remember, that Anita Hill's attorney was none other than Janet Napolitano).

A few things to consider:

1) what Feinstein and the Dems are trying to do will have no affect on the general public, although a secondary objective is to try and deflect the damage done by the #MeToo movement which has claimed the scalps of quite a number of some of the most prominent political and cultural figures on the Left (ironic, given that the "War on Women" was supposed to be perpetrated by white Judeo-Christian conservative males exclusively). The Left is itching to try, convict and execute Kavanaugh as a way of evening the score and thereby legitimizing the propaganda that at most this is a male problem, and not a Leftist-Male problem.

2) the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is where the Democrat-Left gets its real power. Whatever they cannot inflict on us electorally or legislatively they do via their hacks-in-black from the bench. President Trump's placing of dozens of (hopefully) decent judges on the lower courts and Neil Gorsuch has devolved much of the Left's ill-gotten power away from them. If Kavanaugh is confirmed (please G-d) and if Ruth Bader-Meinhoff or perhaps the overweight, diabetic and hot-tempered Latina were to suddenly join the Choir Invisible, another Scalia-like pick to take their place will make what we are seeing now look like a meditation retreat in Tibet, as well as really screw the Left's ability to ram things down our throat and up our ass for at least a generation - bullets and bike locks notwithstanding.

3) The only power the Dems have to stop this rests in the hands of the GOP. So far, Chuck Grassley is standing firm but turds like Jeff Flake are stating that their sacred honor demands that we give a full and honest hearing of the accusations before casting any votes, or some such dreck. This is a total crock of shit and I fear that Flake could very well want to pull a McCain and give a thumbs down both to screw over Trump as well as burnish his credentials when he switches parties. Oh yes. This fake-tanned fuck-face is drunk on power and lucre and I fear he'll do this. More to the point, I fear others might use this as a pretext and cover to go wobbly as well. Not good.

4) If Kavanaugh is seated, just like the Steele Pee-Pee Dossier, the accusations will forever taint Brett Kavanaugh and all of the decisions he makes as an associate justice to SCOTUS as illegitimate. It will only add fuel to the fire of the Left's rage going forward. That alone is just utterly loathsome. And that I will never forgive, not that any of the above is even remotely forgivable.

Moving on, in Fake News and First Amendment issues, the NY Slimes is walking back its Nikki Haley drapery smear, Twitter purges a Coastguardsman for giving the racist "OK" sign, cops in Massachusetts are using the Facebook pages to monitor the activities of anti-Trumpers and Lefty heads are exploding, and the Euro-Peon Union is angling to get its hands on the internet.

In politics, Loopy Ocasio-Fiasco can't seem to articulate much of anything, especially where the $40 trillion will come from to fund her policies, Fauxcahontas is not concerned about that either as she ramps up her rhetoric for 2020, while Cuomo beat "Dickless" Nixon handily in New York, the down-ticket races went big time for the Dem-Socialites, Georgia Dem candidate for governor Stacy Abrams won't disclose her million dollar donors, and Daniel Horowitz is downbeat about the midterms; I agree with the points he makes about the dead GOP but not his conclusion. I think we'll hold Congress because the Trump base knows what losing it would mean. And with jerks like Beto Agarn in Texas as well as the Kavanaugh crap, I think that that is a fair wager to make. I hope.

Internationally, Pompeo slams Kerry, a pro-Israeli activist is knifed to death by a Palestinian,and an essay on Trump and the South Africa situation. Sliding into the related topic of Islam and terrorism, how that New Mexico jihad training camp festered for so long, the EU is totes kosher with Holocaust 2, and a sobering piece on moderate Muslims and other mythical beasts.

Domestically, good news on the President's deregulation efforts and this is the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, and IBD asks the questions on what the Fed will do if that ever happens again.

From hither and yon, Taco Bell fired a miscreant who refused to serve English-speaking customers, voters could care less about "climate change" and yet Al Gore and the Dems continue f***ing that chicken, Harrison Ford is a jerk and a Venezuelan journalist (a real one, not Jm J Acosta) calls out Jim Carrey for his pimping socialism. If Carrey would live in a Caracas barrio without access to any of his money... yeah, sure.

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

UP FRONT

• Ledeen: Is Dianne Feinstein the Most Corrupt Senator in the United States?
  
• Dianne Feinstein's Metzenbaum Moment
  
  KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
  
• Kavanaugh on Post-Hearing Hit: "I Categorically and Unequivocally Deny This Allegation"
  
• How Dems Are Using Saul Alinsky Smear Tactics Against Brett Kavanaugh
  
• Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh's Accuser, Comes Forward
  
• Classmate Named in Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Accusation Stands By Denial of "Absolutely Nuts" Allegations
  
• White House, Grassley Back Kavanaugh After Accuser Goes Public
  
• Schemer, Feinstein Look to Delay Vote
  
• Fake Flake Suddenly "Not Comfortable Voting Yes" After Accuser Comes Forward
  
• On Spartacus and Crucifixion, Dems and Kavanaugh, and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
  
• The Dems' "Anita" Brett Kavanaugh: How Low Will They Go?
  
  FIRST AMENDMENT, FAKE NEWS, CENSORSHIP
  
• New York Times Corrects Misleading Story About Curtains at Nikki Haley's Official Residence
  
• Twitter Mob Gets US Coast Guardsman Removed for Making "Offensive" OK Sign (mob = about 6 geeks with algorithms - jjs)
  
• Anti-Trump Activists Slam Massachusetts Cops for Monitoring Their Facebook Groups (considering your penchant for bullets and bike locks STFU, STFD and DIAF - jjs)
  
• You Don't Have to Be a Bigot to Be a Racist Anymore
  
• The European Union Would Love to Control Your Internet Use
  
  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  
• Taco Bell Worker Fired for Refusing to Serve English-Speaking Customers (run for the border - jjs)
  
  HURRICANE FLORENCE, POLITICIZATION OF SAME
  
• Let's Blame Every Death on President Trump
  
  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION
  
• Racist Front Group LULAC Retracts Accusation That Prison Killed Illegal Alien Inmate
  
• Another Year, Another Record-High Immigration Total (we need a 20-year moratorium - jjs)
  
• Trump and Birthright Citizenship
  
• 19 Illegal Aliens Charged with Illegal Voting in 2016 (and that's how Hillary won the popular vote [no, not just the 19] - jjs)
  
  SPYGATE, MUELLER WITCH HUNT, DEEP STATE, COUP
  
• Bob Woodward Drops Bombshell... on Dems - No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion
  
• Fusion GPS Contractor Nellie Ohr, Wife of DoJ Official Bruce Ohr, to Testify This Week
  
• Lisa "Gumsy" Page Shocker: FBI Could Not Prove Trump-Russia Collusion Early On (I guess forging documents and strong-arming "witnesses" takes time - jjs)
  
• Nunes Expects to Release 70 Witness Depositions Within "Next Few Weeks"
  
  POLITICS, 2018 MIDTERMS
  
• Loopy Ocasio-Fiasco Can't Explain How She'll Pay for the $40 Trillion Programs She Supports
  
• Fauxcahontas Proposes More Futile "Progressive" Legislation in Prep for 2020 Run
  
• GA Dem Candidate Stacy Abrams Refuses to Reveal Names of Million Dollar Donors
  
• New York's Split-Screen Primary
  
• Beto "Agarn" O'Rourke Just Showed Everyone How to Lose an Election in Texas
  
• What Election? Republicans Have Already Handed Congress to the Dems (I get where Horowitz's coming from, but disagree with his conclusion - jjs)
  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  
• Sabotaging Trump on Iran's Behalf (more on Kerry - jjs)
  
• Pompeo on Kerry: "Undermining US Policy as a Former Secretary of State is Literally Unheard Of"
  
• Trump Pulls Back the Shroud on South Africa
  
  ISLAM, TERRORISM, SHARIA, DHIMMITUDE
  
• Rift Between Police and Feds Allowed New Mexico Terror Compound to Fester (pardon the phrasing, but I smell the taint of Jamie Gorelick - jjs)
  
• US-Born Pro-Israeli Activist Stabbed to Death in West Bank by Palestinian
  
• The Myth of the Moderate Muslim
  
• European Courts Legalize a Muslim Kristallnacht
  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  
• Trump Rolls Back Union-Backed Obama-Era Anti-Franchising Regulations
  
• Eliminating "Most Problematic" Regulations Saves Taxpayers $1.3 Billion This Year
  
• The Big Lie About "Excessive" CEO Pay
  
• Feds Mistakes Made Financial Crisis Worse - Has It Learned Its Lesson? (10th anniversary of the financial meltdown - jjs)
  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT (NON-DOSTOYEVSKY)
  
• Border Patrol Supervisor Charged in Two-Week Serial Killing Spree
  
  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  
• Study: Diversity Officers "Contribute Nothing Positive to a University" (so does about 95% of the professoriate - jjs)
  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE, LYSENKOISM
  
• Climate Change Not a Top Issue with Voters Despite Democrat Push
  
• Al Gore's Claim About Hurricane Florence Doused by Scientists
  
• May the Farce Be With You: Han Solo Preaches Climate Doom
  
  CULTURE WARS, HITHER and YON
  
• Venezuelan Journalist Calls Out Jim Carrey's "Say 'Yes' to Socialism" Schtick
  
• ACT for America Declares Culture War
  

Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/16/18 )

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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“Exercise makes you look better naked, so does Tequila. Your choice.” ~ Johnathan Bush (founder and former CEO of medical billing company Athenahealth Inc.)

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There are no rules when it comes to leftism. Owen Benjamin

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“Well, it has gotten warmer as you said, since the 1950s there has been a warming trend, but what we haven’t seen in terns of any long term weather measurements is whether there’s been any change in severe weather. There hasn’t been any increase in hurricanes. That’s on a global basis in the United States.”

“The frequency of hits of the United States by major hurricanes has gone down by 50 percent since the 1930s and 1940s. There’s been no increase in droughts, no increase in floods. Tornados are down but still weather varies a lot especially hurricanes, year to year, decade to decade.” Dr. Roy Spencer

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Brexit Morons. They are similar to you Morons, only British.

Pat Condell, always has an interesting view. Tonight's is no different.

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What is the true cost of illegal immigration? It isn't cheap unless your a brainless politician.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

September 16, 1977, 29-year-old former T Rex singer Marc Bolan was killed instantly when the car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes, London. Miss Jones broke her jaw in the accident. The couple were on the way to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out at a Mayfair restaurant. A local man who witnessed the crash said, 'When I arrived a girl was lying on the bonnet and a man with long dark curly hair was stretched out in the road - there was a hell of a mess.' via thisdayinmusic.com

September 16, 1953, Born on this day, Alan Barton from Black Lace who had the 1984 UK No.2 single 'Agadoo'. The track earned them the dubious accolade of being voted as the worst song of all time by a panel of music writers for Q Magazine. Barton replaced Chris Norman in Smokie in 1986, recording six albums with them. He died on 23 March 1995 aged 41 from injuries incurred when Smokie's tour bus crashed during a hailstorm in Cologne, Germany. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Somehow, this struck me as funny. "File under: Ex-wives could have been mine."

If you are a regular reader you are fully aware that The ONT is always looking out for your health. Here is a simple way for men to live a bit longer.

It is the secret we are all trying to unlock — how to live long and happy lives.

Science has found the key to success — for men, anyway.

In the United Kingdom, men in general are not expected to live as long as women — so maybe they need a little bit more help.

The average life expectancy for a man is 79, where women are expected to live to 82.

The reason for women outliving men is genetics, according to Medical Daily. Women have two X chromosomes, which provides them with a backup if a mutation occurs. However, men do not have that luxury — they only have one X chromosome to express all their genes.

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How convenient!!!!! Last minute claim of attempted sexual assault against SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

Ford, a 51-year-old registered Democrat who has published in academic journals and has trained students in clinical psychology, described the alleged incident in The Washington Post on Sunday, saying it occurred during a summer day in the 1980s at a Maryland house where teens had gathered. Ford claimed she headed upstairs to a bathroom when she was suddenly pushed onto a bed, as rock-and-roll music blared.

However, Ford told The Post she did not recall exactly who owned the house, how she came to be at the house, or how the gathering was arranged. She remembered only that the house was in Montgomery County, near a country club, and that parents were not present.

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Crime doesn't pay. But you can become a Genius Award Winner.

WAREHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A couple caught stealing clothes from a Walmart in Wareham Tuesday night told police that they needed to wear the items to an upcoming court appearance, officials said.

Officers responding to the store on Tobey Road for a report of a shoplifting incident in progress around 10 p.m. encountered 25-year-old Heather Murphy and 33-year-old Jason Willoughby just as they were leaving the store, according to the Wareham Police Department.

Murphy allegedly opened a handbag that she was holding, handed over clothes that she had attempted to steal and told officers she needed to wear them in court Wednesday.

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Proud to be an American. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A shirtless man disregarded warnings from local authorities and walked out to a street in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Friday morning to stare down a powerful hurricane -- for the third time.

Despite officials urging evacuations or, at the least, safely battening down the hatches at home, Lane Pittman was captured on film holding an American flag while headbanging to heavy metal music as Florence’s 85 mph winds and rain pelted him.

"Just being free and American. I don't let nothing oppress me, especially no dang, freaking hurricane," he told Fox Business Network reporter Kristina Partsinevelos, who caught up with him after his stunt...as he tried to fix a flat tire.

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Gun Thread: 357 Magnum - Bigger is Better! [Weasel]

—Open Blogger

If the .38 Special cartridge is good, then a bigger, faster version has to be great, right?

Smith and Wesson Model 686

Designed in the mid-thirties by Elmer Keith, Philip Sharpe and Douglas Wesson the .357 Magnum is the big brother to the .38 Special. At a time when many law enforcement officers were issued the .38 Special, a still higher energy cartridge was needed to penetrate automotive steel and bullet-proof vests then being used by gangsters and bootleggers. With a transitional step as the .38/44 in about 1930, the .357 Magnum hit the market a few years later with bullet velocities in excess of 1400 fps and energies nearly triple that of the .38 Special. Quickly becoming a favorite of law enforcement, Colt's marketing department went as far as to name an offering in their honor.

Colt Trooper MKIII

As with other straight walled cartridges, the .357 Magnum is popular with reloaders. Common bullet weights are 125 gr and 158 gr, with muzzle velocities around 1450 fps and 1250 fps, respectively. One note of caution, cracked revolver forcing cones have been attributed to excessive velocities with the lighter bullets. Be careful!

.38 Special (L), .357 Magnum (C), Dime (R)

Although the internal case volume isn't needed for powder, the .357 Magnum case was lengthened slightly (.125") to avoid inadvertant use in the lighter frame .38 Special revolvers.

Ace Cadet Model 302

Considered the Holy Grail of .357 Magnum collecting is the Smith and Wesson Registered Magnum. Pictured above is the RM in my personal collection.

Registered Magnum Article

Other Links
NRA Article

.357 Magnum History

American Handgunner Article

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Our pal rhomboid sends us this week's old gun...

Colt King Cobra

A consignment rescue, rhomboid found this week's old gun with a bobbed hammer and lots of handling marks. Now sporting Hogue Pau Ferro grips, a new hammer and refinishing by the Colt Custom Shop, it has been restored to premium condition. Nice job, rhomboid! I'd be honored to have a cap popped in my ass with this very nice example of the Colt King Cobra!

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If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are welcome! Email: guns at happyplacearsenal dot com

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Food Thread: I Will Never Sour On Sourdough, And Other Stories From My Kitchen

—CBD

I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a long time, so I have a soft spot in my heart (and palate) for its finest product; sourdough bread. Even the mass-produced stuff from the big bakeries was spectacularly good, and the local bakeries would occasionally produce ethereal loaves that were difficult not to eat in one sitting...or on the way back from the shopping trip.

Making sourdough is not quite as easy as the bakers writing cookbooks would have us think. The suggestion that the perfect ratio of yeast and bacteria can magically appear in a homemade sourdough starter is a bit silly. Sure, if you are lucky it will work, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. And even if you do get the right ratio of lactobacillus bacteria (they eat sugar and shit acid) and yeast (they eat sugar and shit CO₂), you still have to keep it going, and that takes work.

So my years-old sourdough starter was a bit long in the tooth, and my attempts to revive it didn't work as well as I had hoped. The dough I made a few days ago simply did not rise. At all! Luckily it was a wet dough, so I figured I could make a slurry of yeast and water and mix it again. It worked, and I got a very nice dense loaf of sort-of-sour bread. I am pleased with the results, but it certainly isn't going to make those glorious San Francisco bakers worry about East-Coast competition.

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Rotisserie chicken is one of the glories of cooking; simple, delicious, and wonderful to look at! I made it several days ago, but neglected to photograph the finished product. However our resident kitchen genius artisanal'ette sent me a photo of her efforts, and damn! They look great!

All I did was heavily salt a good quality chicken (Kosher salt of course) and then let it sit for a day. Then a few hours before cooking I dried it off and placed it on a rack in the refrigerator to dry a bit so that the skin would have a chance to get crispy. I stuffed the cavity with a handful of fresh thyme and a scrap of onion, and then I trussed it using Jacques Pepin's wonderfully simple technique. As for cooking temperature? Probably about 375 degrees, because the chicken took more than one hour to cook.

If you have a rotisserie by all means play around with it. Chicken is the obvious dish, but a bone-in pork roast is a revelation...crispy on the outside and wonderfully juicy and tender on the inside.

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We can feed the world, if only the lunatic murdering Leftists would let us.
Europe's Anti-GMO Stance Is Killing Africans
They are watermelons...green on the outside and red on the inside.
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This is a fancy way of telling you how long and at what temperature you must heat the chicken to kill what wants to kill you, or at least make you feel like you want to die.

USDA Times and Temperatures to Obtain 7-log10 Lethality of Salmonella
Temperature Holding Time
136°F (58°C) 81.4 minutes
140°F (60°C) 35 minutes
145°F (63°C) 13 minutes
150°F (66°C) 4.2 minutes
152°F (67°C) 2.3 minutes
155°F (68°C) 54.4 seconds
157°F (69°C) 34 seconds
160°F (71°C) 16.9 seconds
162°F (72°C) 10.5 seconds
165°F (74°C) <10 seconds

What this means is that you can cook poultry so that it is perfectly done and not tough and dry. It just takes a bit of work and attention. But mostly a thermometer, which you have because you pay attention around here.

Right?

Try it with this: Baked Chicken with Roasted Tomatillo Cream Sauce

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Food and cooking tips, Haggis, Henry Big Boys in .357, Scotch Eggs, thick and fluffy pita and good tomatoes that aren't square, pale pink and covered with Mestizo E.coli: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Any advocacy of French Toast with syrup will result in disciplinary action up to and including being nuked from orbit.

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