Fredo Cuomo: Trump Isn't Aging Poorly In Office Only Because He Doesn't Care Enough About the Country to Age

—Ace of Spades

So they've abandoned their "He's got Alzheimer's so remove him!" attack line and replaced it with "He doesn't have Alzheimer's, remove him!" attack line.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo suggested that President Trump hasn't aged as much as his predecessors because he doesn't care as much about the country's problems.

"It's been almost three years since Trump won the presidency," Cuomo said during his show, "Cuomo Prime Time," on Tuesday. "He looks exactly the same."

"His hair is--I don't know what's going on with that. But he may do things that presidents in the past haven't done to augment their physical reality, but it could also be he doesn't care the way others have," he added.

Maybe he just knows you don't have much power or influence (or time in the Ruling Class) remaining, so he just isn't bothered by your relentless attacks.

Meanwhile, I guess Joe Biden's rapidly deteriorating cognitive ability proves he cares about the country.

Vote for Fuzzy Joe -- he's senility is his patriotism.

Kavanaugh Friend Sues Huffington Post for Defamation

—Ace of Spades

Gawkerize these motherfvckers.

A Gulfport professor and advocate is suing the national news website HuffPost alleging defamation involving a September 2018 story on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's days at Georgetown Prep school.

Derrick Evans’ lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Gulfport against HuffPost and its former journalist, Ashley Feinberg.

The lawsuit said HuffPost and Feinberg repeatedly defamed Evans and friend Douglas Kennedy to a nationwide audience on multiple occasions in September 2018 by falsely asserting that they helped arrange the purchase and delivery of cocaine at Georgetown Prep that resulted in the April 1984 death of David Kennedy, Douglas' brother and the son of the late U.S. attorney general and senator, Robert F. Kennedy.

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The lawsuit said in HuffPost's zeal to create a sensational article about Kavanaugh's years at Georgetown Prep and thereby drive traffic to its website, it fabricated the claim that Kennedy and Evans "helped score" the illegal narcotics that killed Douglas Kennedy’s older brother, David, in April 1984.

A leftwing clckbait/outrage site making up defamatory claims to get clicks?

I shan't believe it, said the Covington Kids. I simply shannot.

Supercut: Watch as the Media Priesthood Attempts A Mass Ritual Incantation to Conjure a Recession Into Reality

—Ace of Spades

Spirit cooking status: Spirits cooked.

Bill Kristol's New David French, His Next Evan McMullin, His Latest Attempt at Spoiler Candidate to Win the White House for His Democrat Funders, Has Long Maintained That Barack Obama Is a Muslim

—Ace of Spades

OUT: Attacking Trump for the conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya

IN: Supporting Joe Walsh for the conspiracy theory that Obama is a Muslim

Joe Walsh is going to challenge Trump because, whatever, I guess he's got some child-support bills that need payin'.

Joe Walsh, the impetuous former Republican congressman, will announce a beyond-long-shot primary bid against President Trump in the coming days, the New York Times reports.

Walsh, who was elected out of Illinois as part of the Tea Party wave of 2010, then ousted by Democrat Tammy Duckworth two years later, made his name as a loud adversary of President Obama (while gaining some personal notoriety on the left for his inability to make child-care payments).

Breitbart notes that Joe Walsh has run as a pro-choice moderate previously:

Walsh is something of a political chameleon. He ran for Congress in 1996 as a moderate, pro-choice Republican, challenging long-time Democrat incumbent Rep. Sidney Yates in the 9th district of Illinois. He lost; this author likewise challenged a Democrat incumbent in 2010 and lost, though that effort helped Walsh win in the nearby 8th district, where he unseated Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) by a handful of votes and survived a long recount battle.

This is the sensible moderate who will appeal to Suburban Wine Moms that we've been looking for:

Thanks to Will Chamberlain for digging up those tweets.

This exchange with Bill Kristol about that is precious:

Hasan Piker, a Young Turk Employee -- and Cenk Uygur's Nephew -- Calls Soldier Who Shot Out Dan Crenshaw's Eye "Brave," Says America Absolutely Deserved the Muslim Attack of 9/11

—Ace of Spades

I think the surprise here is that they've managed to avoid explicitly praising 9/11 for so long.

He said this on Twitch, another social media company that punishes speech they don't like.

He will not be punished for this.

Reviewing a clip of U.S. Military veteran Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) talking to podcast host Joe Rogan, Hasan Piker of "The Young Turks" mocked Crenshaw's lost eye, a wartime injury, in vile fashion and said America "deserved" 9/11.

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He added, "Isn't that how [Dan Crenshaw] f***ing lost his dumba** eye, because he got his f***ing eye hole f***ed, by a brave soldier?"

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During the same stream, Piker said the United States "deserved" to have the Twin Towers targeted by suicide bombers on September 11, 2001, killing 3,000 innocents.

Then, on Twitter, he doubled down and told people to "stop being a f***ing idiot" for denying America "deserved" 9/11.

"Study:" Almost Half of All Americans Wear the Same Underwear For At Least Two Days

—Ace of Spades

Is that all?

Cvcks!

A foul 45 percent of Americans have worn the same pair of jocks for two days or longer, a new study has found.

The survey by underwear company Tommy John asked 1,000 men and women about their hygiene habits. And the results were rank.

Nearly half said they'd worn the same underwear at least two days in a row -- while a hygiene-hating 13 percent of people said they’d worn the same pair for a week or more.

I believe a man should change his underwear like he changes his tires -- seasonally, with the purpose of avoiding uneven wear.

Harry Windsor and His Wife Criticized for Talking Up the Dangers of Global Warming Before Burning Tons of Jet Fuel for Me-Time Holidays

—Ace of Spades

Before getting into that, do check out the resort the Google Camp was held at -- costing $20 million for three days, it has been reported.

Think about all the jets and yachts needed to collect the Dull and the Dim for this Roman holiday. Think about all the trees that were cut down for the resort's multiple golf courses.

And it was at this Bacchanal that Harry Windsor (he's not my Prince, nor, frankly, anyone else's) gave a speech -- barefoot, for some reason -- about how we must all do our utmost to reduce carbon emissions.

Before jetting off to Spain and then to France.

This article from Forbes notes the backlash:

British Royal couple Prince Harry and Princess Meghan Markle triggered widespread outrage recently after lecturing the world about climate change while flying around the world in private jets.

"With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this Earth, every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference," the Duke of Sussex said on Instagram a few days before jetting off with the Duchess to Ibiza, Spain and then to Nice, France.

BBC calculates that those two flights alone produced six times more emissions than the average Briton does each year and over 100 times more than the average resident of the African nation of Lesotho.

Friends of Harry and Meghan rushed to the couple's defense. "I'm calling on the press to cease these relentless and untrue assassinations," said Elton John.

"Imagine being attacked" tweeted Ellen, the comedian, "when all you're trying to do is make the world a better place."

But their celebrity defenders only added fuel to the fire. "So stop lecturing us on how we live our lives and live by example," responded one Briton.

Obviously.

This writer makes a great point about the blatant hypocrisy on display here -- what this hypocrisy was neither unconsidered nor inadvertent, but a semi-conscious power move to boldly proclaim, "The Rules do not apply to me. I am The Ruler, not the Ruled"?

A simpler explanation for the hypocrisy of celebrities who moralize about climate change is that it is a way of flaunting their special status.

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people. Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.

Another Google Camp attendee, the 15 year old autistic girl who has now become the newest Childe Prophet of environmental religion, is taking a ship to America. She's taking a ship in order to avoid the obvious objection of trans-global travel -- that she's pumping out a hell of a lot of carbon dioxide for someone says she's literally in a "panic" about how much carbon dioxide other people are pumping out.

She claims that this latest Children's Crusade is "zero emissions" and "carbon neutral."

You will not be very surprised to learn that that is yet another despicable lie.

In addition to all the carbon dioxide that a (mostly) wind-propelled yacht produces -- those refrigerators don't run on solar power -- she's also not publicizing the fact that the two crews she has taken on to run the boat for her will be... traveling by airplane.

There's much about this stunt and its main protagonist to mock. But just for the purposes of this article, ignore for a moment both the grotesque cynicism of egregiously exploiting a clearly troubled and vulnerable child to advance an eco-totalitarian political agenda, and the incongruity that few of us can whistle up a $4million, 18-metre (60ft) yacht from Prince Albert of Monaco to cross the Atlantic to assuage our enviro-guilt, and consider just one question.

Precisely how green is the Blessed Greta's planet-saving maritime odyssey?

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Some intriguing revelations about the crewing arrangements emerged soon after departure. It turns out that the three westbound crossing crew will be flying back from New York to Europe, while the replacement crew of five will be flying from Europe to New York for the return passage.

So that's three transatlantic flights for Greta's Ark westbound crew to return from New York, plus five more for its replacement eastbound crew to get to New York. I'm guessing those flights won't be in Economy, either. What's their 'carbon' -footprint? Why can't she just fly to New York with her father? Or even address the United Nations via Skype?

Read the whole thing. Everything about this gold-plated "zero emissions" trip is a lie.

Help! Someone told me that Google Camp directed powerful search-lamps at the windows of the resort overlooking their outdoor party to blind anyone who dared to scan their gaze over the precious Googlers.

Not blind them permanently, of course. But to direct enough light at them that they could not lay their prole eyes upon the Exalted Googlers.

BTW, non-Googlers paid a lot of money to stay at that ultra-luxe resort.

Though I heard this, I haven't been able to find a citation for that.

Have any of you read this? If so, where?

And until then, don't take my mention of this as anything other than pure rumor. I've tried and tried to track it down and am starting to doubt the story.

Trump Considering... Precrime?

—Ace of Spades

Related: 29 people have been arrested since the El Paso shooting on suspicion of intent to commit a mass murder, Ed Morrissey notes.

I can't evaluate any of these because I don't have the facts. As a matter of pure ideology, I don't know if this is typical "Do Something!" government overreaction at the expense of liberty, or if it's the government doing what is frequently suggested it do to combat mass shootings -- actually use the laws you already have on the books to color-up a possible shooter's police jacket.

Many previous mass shooters could have been stopped from buying the guns they later used to kill people if they had actually been prosecuted for crimes in their past, instead of let go without even an admission of a felony that would block them from buying more weapons.

Those are the two polar possibilities; I suspect the reality is somewhere in the middle.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

Yes! Please keep accusing everyone and everything of being racist. The quicker that stupid word leaves the lexicon the better. When milk and shoes and wide (or narrow) lapels and "niggardly" and black holes and Devil's Food Cake can be accused of being racist, then the word is useless and should be retired.

But the interesting question is: "Who gets to decide what is racist?" When the various Indian nations around Washington DC are ambivalent about the name "Washington Redskins," is it really up to White liberals in the offices of the Washington Post to step in and decide? What is that, the modern version of "The White Man's Burden?"

Minorities Don't Believe Trump Is a Racist

I know the NY Times disagrees, but it is entirely possible that President Trump doesn't give a rat's ass what color or ethnicity people are, and his obsessive focus is on whether they agree with and support his policies.

That's why these ridiculous accusations can be debunked so easily, and why the possibly even stupider ANTI-SEMITE! charges are patently comical. The enthusiastic support that the President has expressed for Israel is difficult to ignore, yet the media seems to manage it rather well. Amazing.

I was going to make the point that we should judge the President by his actions and not his words, but that simply isn't fair or rational. His statements about Charlottesville and sending Tlaib and Omar back where they came from are excellent examples of his words being mangled by a hostile press. What he said was fine; what was reported was not.

So...record minority employment, rising wages, and a president who isn't afraid to fight back against his enemies (and win!) seems to be more important than vague charges of racism leveled by the usual suspects, based on nothing more than curiously and disingenuously edited snippets of speeches and comments.

Whether this translates to electoral success within the various minority communities remains to be seen. Do I expect Trump landslides in Detroit and Newark and Oakland? No, of course not. But I am cautiously optimistic that there are a few percentage points to be had, and perhaps more importantly, a failure in the traditional Democrat GOTV efforts in these areas.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Sea Boots
Andrew Wyeth

Commenter Bandersnatch has been around these parts ever since I inherited this slot from rdbrewer. He is moving on to more mature and intelligent pastures (middle school teacher), so we won't have him to kick us around quite as regularly for our low-brow tastes.

Bandersnatch graciously pointed me in Andrew Wyeth's direction, and for that I am grateful. He is one of the giants of 20th century American art, yet I knew very little of his work. The piece above is in recognition of the interesting and serious and lighthearted comments Bandersnatch has graced us with for all these years.

[What really impresses is his rational analysis of the art; I find that kind of cogitation vanishingly rare in Red Sox fans. Perhaps one of his parents was normal...]

Bonus Wyeth below the fold.

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Pentecost
Andrew Wyeth

Close it up

The Morning Report - 8/22/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. Thursday and the question is what do you call confirmed, raging anti-Semites that accuse someone, whose children happen to be Jewish, of being anti-Semitic? The answer is of course Democrats. The war of words between President Trump and two of that party's most prominent faces, Bro-Fo Omar and Rancida Taliban, which began by the former's unforgiveable sin of merely quoting the latters' own words and rap sheets, escalated with last week's failed attempt by the twin towers of taqqiya and terror to enter the sovereign territory of Israel to agitate for its destruction. Naturally, the Democrats reflexively had to defend these unreconstructed seventh-century pit vipers by attacking Netanyahu, and Trump.

And that's when Trump dropped a 10-megaton truth nuke by rightfully calling out American Jews who support the Democrat Party and Bro-Fo and Rancida as "disloyal." Yesterday's rant, which centered on a pull quote from Rabbi Aryeh Spero in which he described the President's words as "crude" started a bit of a debate in the comments, and no doubt will add fuel to the discussion. First off, as a Jew and as someone who has bemoaned the complete insanity of way too many of my co-religionists' politics, not only do I agree with the President's rebuke, it was a very long time in coming. Once again, by him daring to utter that which must never be uttered in public - i.e. the unvarnished truth - he shines a very bright light not on him but on the lies, hypocrisy and abject failure of the Democrat-Left-Media Complex.

Now that said, the imbroglio we find ourselves in centers around the word "disloyal." It was perhaps the wrong word to use but I completely understand what he was getting at, as evidenced by the above paragraph. Actually, I think most people did as well, except of course for his enemies. The disloyal meme is a classic anti-Semitic trope that smears Jews for allegedly having secret anti-American allegiances to the war-mongering child-defiling, weather-controlling, economy-tampering, Christ-killing Elders of Zion in the Fortress of Solitude somewhere on 13th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. [giant sarc tag].

But in using that word, the President has forced the party of slavery, Jim Crow, infanticide in the service of eugenics, actual concentration camps and totalitarian tyranny that stood by the four shambling sacks of bile, estrogen and ignorance collectively known as "The Squad" as they intentionally smeared all of America's Jews as "disloyal" to now have to disavow that word - all because the President used it. Heh.

For the umpteenth time, people bristle at Trump for seemingly shooting at the hip and being "crude." He's not. He's being truthful. And to that I say, more please.

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM

• Trump Asked To Explain His Jewish "Disloyalty" Comment, Doubles Down
  
• Virtue-Signaling Jewish Dems Betray Israel and Themselves

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION, BORDER SECURITY

  Down at the border, the President is doing an end run around the Flores decision and that will have a significant impact in slowing the invasion, the poor innocent "breastfeeding" illegal alien now charged with identity fraud, more about the public charge ruling and what its non-enforcement has wrought, another spark-of-humanity rapist courtesy of Maryland and Daniel Greenfield dismantles the Emma Lazarus poem.

• DHS Using Loophole Around Flores To Address Immigration Crisis
  
• "Breastfeeding" Migrant Disputed By Medical Exam, Charged With Felony For Identify Fraud
  
• Fewer Illegal Migrants Will Enter US Under New Trump Rule, DHS Says
  
• The Inconvenient Truth About Public Charge Provisions in Immigration Laws
  
• Yet Another Illegal Alien Charged With Rape in Notorious Maryland Sanctuary County
  
• Greenfield: How the Left Gets the Statue of Liberty Poem Wrong

  CIVILWAR 2.0

  I have a large, flaming sack of diarrhea and ball bearings that's coincidentally the perfect size for Hasan Piker's face.

• The Young Turks' Hasan Piker Says "America Deserved 9/11," Mocks Dan Crenshaw's War Injury: "Brave Soldier Fucked His Eye Hole" (and yet Trump's the one that's crude? - jjs)

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

  An Elijah Cummings-Dumpster here and an Elijah Cummings-Dumpster there and sooner or later you're talking about some real money, the Democrats will lead striking Uber and Lyft drivers, mostly from the back seat of the car, and an aide exposes Toothy McBigTits as a completely out of touch fraud.

• Question to Cummings-Dumpster: Where Did the Billions in Missing Federal Money Go?
  
• 2020 Dems Stood With Uber and Lyft Strike, Then Crossed Picket Line
  
• Democrat Aide Shreds Chiquita Khruschev AOC: "No Plans To Serve the People"

  JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S DEATH

  He's still dead.

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION

  Grahaminator and AG Barr confab on releasing SpyGate docs.

• Lindsey Graham to Meet with Attorney General Barr this Week to Discuss Rollout of SpyGate Docs

  POLITICS

  RNC raking in the dough-re-mi way beyond the Dems which dovetails with the link about Dem enthusiasm for their prexy candidates, Trump beats Buttplug in Morning Consult poll, ex-NAACP honcho rips Dems for pandering, Toothy McBigTits shows her udder ignorance about history in anti-Electoral College screed, another one bites the dust as Jay Inbred ankles the Dem prexy pack, anti-American asshole millionaire funds Susan Collins challenger, and Bill De Bolshevik swallows tank of helium.

• RNC Massively Out-Raises DNC In July
  
• Morning Consult Poll: Trump Trounces "Boat Shoes" Buttplug in Head-to-Head Matchup
  
• The Thrill Is Gone? Dems Seem Bored with Their Presidential Candidates
  
• Former NAACP Assistant Director Accuses Democrats Of "Pandering To Black Voters" On Reparations
  
• Minorities Don't Believe Trump Is a Racist
  
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC: The Electoral College a "Scam," Prefers White Voters Over Those of Color
  
• Jay "Inbred" Inslee Quits 2020 Race... Before His Long-Awaited Climate Change Debate
  
• Colorado Millionaire Who Compared Government Shutdown to 9/11 Fundraises for Maine Dem Challenging Susan Collins
  
• NYC Mayor Bill De Bolshevik's Video Call Suffers From Technical Issues At Iowa Labor Event

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH

  Facebook muzzles Trump campaign ads, Louisiana AG Landry hints at fellow As-G attack on Big Tech, Chi-Coms using the latter to muzzle people there and perhaps here too, Trump kicks ass and takes names at impromptu presser, Minnesota Star Tribune is unworthy to line a litter box, Christian Toto with a warning to media about censorship and a quite good essay on the history of GamerGate.

• Facebook Pulls Trump Campaign Ads Over Alleged Policy Violations
  
• Louisiana AG Jeff Landry: State A's-G "Have Had Enough" of Big Tech
  
• Trump Roils the Usual Suspects at Entertaining Impromptu Presser
  
• Enabling China's Mass Surveillance System
  
• Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Paints Mt. Rushmore as Monument to White Supremacy
  
• Toto: Liberal Media Suddenly Fear Censorship - Guess Why?
  
• The Real History of GamerGate

  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Trump doubles down on opposition to more background checks, Camera Hogg Little Shitler returns but Needles, CA fights the power.

• President Trump Doubles Down: Won't Risk "Slippery Slope" for Gun Rights
  
• Parkland Students Roll Out Gun Control Proposal in the Hopes of Energizing the Youth Vote Ahead of 2020 (Little Shitler Camera Hogg returns - jjs)
  
• City Council Votes of Needles, CA to Become 2A Sanctuary

  ABORTION

  Planned Parenthood still getting half a billion in our money to kill babies and, yes, what they are really all about and always have been.

• Planned Parenthood Still Receives over $500 Million in Taxpayer Funding Annually
  
• End Planned Parenthood's White Supremacy

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  As Hong Kong enters 11th week of protests and unrest, Chi-Coms hold Brit consulate employee and US sells Taiwan $8 billion in F-16s which is the first sale to them in almost 30 years. Also, Farsi-backed Yemenite Houthis allegedly shoot down another US drone, Denmark slapped upside the head by Trump (good), Russkies and Chi-Coms slam US for testing new cruise missile, Maduro allegedly talking to US officials to broker a deal for him to leave, Deutschland Uber Alles Unter Allah, Trump warns Euro-peons refusing to repatriate their own ISIS citizens, Brazil prexy accusing opponents of torching rainforest as retribution, US weighs Kurd options in Syria and part one of a report on a shady group stirring up trouble in Israel.

• China Admits to Holding Employee From UK's Hong Kong Consulate
  
• US Clears Sale of F-16 Jets to Taiwan; $8 Billion Deal First Since 1990s
  
• Iran-Allied Houthis Shoot Down Second US Drone Since June
  
• Denmark Reels After Trump Cancels Visit Over Rebuffed Greenland Purchase Idea
  
• Russia, China Slam US Test of Cruise Missile Banned Under the Scrapped INF Treaty
  
• Venezuela's Maduro Confirms Secret High-Level Talks with US Officials (link goes to CNBC - jjs)
  
• Germans Under Siege: Police Stats Show Citizens Overwhelmingly Victims of Migrant Crime
  
• Trump Warns Europe: I'll Air Drop ISIS Fighters From Europe Back Into Your Countries
  
• Trump of the Tropics Bolsonaro Suggests His Enemies Are Starting Amazonian Fires Out of Revenge
  
• Who's Funding the Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C?: Part 1
  
• What the USA Can Do for the Kurds in Syria

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  Trump is a mensch.

• President Trump Cancels Federal Student Debt for Wounded Warriors

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION

  And we're bitching at Cummings-Dumpster? Also two more on California circling the drain.

• New Budget Estimates Add Extra $800 Billion to National Debt Projections After Congress' Latest Spending Deal
  
• Workers Exposed To "Trash and Bodily Fluids' at LA City Hall Building, Citations Issued In Response To Typhus Case
  
• California's War on Cars

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  As shown.

• President Trump Backs Away from Tax Cuts

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Let's see them laughing when the walls, and engorged penises, start closing in on them, San Francisco is insane, the president should counter Leftist terroristic pressure groups with tax incentives for private corrections agencies, despite antipathy these days to the po-po there is a war being waged on law enforcement, and a palate cleanser? I've heard of Going In Style but this is Coming In Style, I guess. Yikes.

• Gang Members Involved In Cop Shooting Laugh While Receiving Life Sentences
  
• San Fran City Govt.'s Response to Rising Crime Rate: Change "Convicted Felon" to "Justice-Involved Person"
  
• Pressured by Anti-ICE Activists, Big Banks Abandon Private Corrections Companies
  
• The War on Cops Imperils Us All
  
• Senior Citizens Busted in Connecticut for Five-on-One Sex Romp in Public

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  I remember having a membership in the Scholastic Book Club; how far they have fallen and an essay on the madness of mental health days.

• Scholastic's New School Catalog Hawks Books To Saturate Kids With Identity Politics (second look at My Darling, My Hamburger? - jjs)
  
• Beneficial Choice Entails More Than "Mental Health Days"

  HEALTHCARE

  As stated.

• Trump's Right: More Mentally Ill Americans Need Hospitalization

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  Prager U with must-see-TV for children of all ages and a Nelson Muntz laugh for the enviro-nazis.

• Prager U Video: What's the Deal With the Green New Deal?
  
• Mysterious Group Behind Climate Crusades Face Legal Problems For Allegedly Skirting Financial Regulations as Their War on Oil Continues to Fizzle Out

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  Debunking the 1619 Project, Smithsonian swallows the Zinn garbage and Vermont lets the kids run the candy store.

• No, America Wasn't Built On Slavery, But Faith That All Men Are Created Equal
  
• Howard Zinn's Anti-American Propaganda Takes Over the Smithsonian
  
• Vermont Is Going Insane; Will the Rest of America Follow?

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

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (8/21/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

I could go on, but I conclude this portion simply by stating an obvious and lamentable fact: every single institution in the United States is either actively malicious toward the American people, or a complete scam—and often both. Darren J. Beattie

Quote II

"I want to move to Taiwan because Hong Kong is in a period of white terror and ruled by the police, which scares me. I saw no future for the city when it returned to China some 20 years ago, but now it’s dangerous to live in, as the police are not protecting people." Steven Chen

Quote III

“We obviously don’t give an intelligence test before people take these things out. Why someone would think that it makes sense to take one of these scooters on the interstate is beyond me.” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett

Quote IV

“It is an outrageous betrayal of people who have worked hard, paid their taxes and made their National Insurance contributions for decades in the expectation that they will receive at least a basic income so they can retire, rather than being forced to labour until they drop.” Ros Altmann

Quote V

The US military spends an ungodly amount of treasure in men and material. When you have all that money sloshing around in often esoteric areas, the usual rent-seekers, thieves, and other parasitic characters will always be there looking to dip their beaks.

Thick and robust firewalls need to be in place.Cdr. Salamander

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The French have developed a roof top garden.

The world’s largest rooftop urban farm is set to open in Paris next year—and it’s already projected to feed thousands of people every year.

The garden, which is being constructed in the southwest region of the French capital, will span over 14,000 square meters (150,700 square feet), making it the largest urban farm in Europe.

Managed by a team of 20 gardeners, the organic sanctuary will grow 30 different plant species. Representatives from Agripolis, the urban farming company behind the project, say that the site will likely produce about 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of fruit and vegetables every day in high season.

Will it work as well as their solar road?

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Our youngest daughter was born in 1993. I couldn't imagine life without her.

Alyssa Milano proudly boasted that the two abortions she obtained in 1993 helped to make her life the way it is today.

According to Yahoo News, the former "Charmed" actress and noted feminist activist revealed in the latest of her podcast "Sorry Not Sorry" that she had two abortions in her early twenties when her relationship with her boyfriend went south.

"In 1993, I had two abortions," Milano said. "I was in love for the first time in the breathless way you can only be in love when you are young. It was huge — overwhelming even. It filled every part of living. It was a joyful and exciting and powerful time in my life."

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No shit!

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As we all know The ONT is continuously looking out for you. We don't give stock tips. However, you may want to think twice before investing in this IPO.

WeWork, the office-sharing, kegger-hosting phenomenon that has redefined the modern workspace, is also raising the bar for how much money a startup can lose and still be considered a buzzy investment.

WeWork's corporate parent, the We Company, which released its IPO documents on Wednesday, loses roughly $5,197 per customer who inhabits its office space per year. That's considerably more than newly public companies like Uber or Beyond Meat are losing on their growing customer bases.

WeWork, which says in the offering document that its corporate mission is no less than to "to elevate the world's consciousness," is on track to lose $2.7 billion this year from its operations, up from nearly $1.7 billion last year. The company's revenue in the first six months of the year nearly doubled from last year's first half, to $1.5 billion. The company said its losses rose just 10% from a year ago, but that includes a $470 million non-operating, and likely non-recurring, gain. Exclude that, and losses from the We Company, which says it will trade under the ticker symbol "WE," rose 60%.

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Learn to #Code Fredo..........

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Has Florida Man Syndrome struck the UK? Manure dumped outside of pub.

A HUGE pile of manure has been dumped outside a pub with signs accusing the landlord of sleeping with someone's wife.

The muck was piled outside the Hawkley Inn near Liss, Hampshire with obscene messages - allegedly left by a scorned husband.

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The moral case for campus carry.

Campus carry is simply an extension of our natural right of self-defense. Our right to life follows us wherever we go, so the right to defend our lives must also accompany us. Whether I am at home, in my car, at work, or in the classroom, I possess the absolute and unrelenting right to defend myself against unjust aggression. Because firearms enhance that right, there exists a strong presumption in favor of being allowed to own and carry a firearm as I go about my daily business.

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Quite the smart phone app, this one will tell you when food has gone bad.

In order to help detect spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers, researchers have developed new low-cost, smartphone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors for meat and fish packaging.

One in three UK consumers throw away food solely because it reaches the “use-by” date, but 60% (4.2 million tonnes) of the £12.5 billion-worth of food we throw away each year is safe to eat.

The laboratory prototype sensors cost two US cents each to make. Known as “paper-based electrical gas sensors” (PEGS), they detect spoilage gases like ammonia and trimethylamine in meat and fish product

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The ONT Musical Interlude

No rhyme or reason tonight. Just talented folks no longer with us..............

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If your motel room has bed bugs, leave. Don't become a Genius Award Winner.

MADISON (WKOW) — A man who said he was, “trying to put out bed bugs with a cigarette,” accidentally started a mattress on fire Thursday in a west side hotel.

Firefighters responded to the hotel overnight for a report of a mattress on fire in one of the rooms, according to a Madison Fire Department incident report.

Guest were evacuated as firefighters responded.

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These rockers are Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

The donation to the nonprofit organization Daruieste Viata ("Give Life") was announced just prior to the band's sold out concert in Bucharest.

"The donation made by Metallica has a special meaning to our project. On one hand, their music inspires and touches so many Romanians, and at the same time so many Romanians are inspired by and contribute to the establishing of the first Pediatric Oncology and Radiotherapy Hospital in Romania, in order to give children with cancer a chance to live," said Carmen Uscatu, President of Daruieste Viata Association.

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Open Thread

—Ace of Spades

Nikki Haley rebuts the alleged "rumors" that Trump will pick her to replace Pence as VP:

The Economist: The World's Poor Are Eating More Meat Which Means They'll Live Longer and Healthier Lives But It's Very Sad Because of Global Warming
Plus: Slavery-Shaming from the New York Times and Nation of Islam

—Ace of Spades

No, really. They're against the world's poor having healthy food.

DHS Announces New Rule Ending "Catch and Release," Will Permit Families to be Detained Together Until Their Immigration Hearings

—Ace of Spades

So we're not going to "separate families" any longer.

Of course, the left and the NeverTrumpers (but I repeat myself) are now complaining about not separating children from parents.

You'd almost start to think that it's not "the horror of family separation" they oppose, but rather any border enforcement and any deportation of illegals.

You'd almost think that they know it's politically unpopular to announce their actual goal of Open Borders, so they instead pick and paw at every tiny aspect of border enforcement so they can agitate for Open Borders without admitting they're doing so.

To address the unprecedented flow of families across the Southwest border, the Trump administration on Wednesday announced regulations that will allow families to be detained together, pending disposition of their immigration hearings.

The goal is to end "catch and release." Asylum-seeking families will no longer be released into the United States with a promise to appear in immigration court -- promises that are mostly not kept, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan noted.

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Under the current interpretation of the Flores settlement, families with minor children must be released within 20 days, on a promise to appear for their hearings, which may take years to happen.

"The Flores settlement is operationally outdated and does not respond to the current immigration crisis," McAleenan told the news conference.

All Democrat Presidential Candidates, Except Tulsi Gabbard, Absolutely Refuse to Condemn Antifa When Directly Asked

—Ace of Spades

Oh right, being insufficiently condemnatory about political violence is also grounds for a quasi-criminal public prosecution.

Except when the Ruling Class decides they like a little political violence.

Pilot: Prince Andrew Flew Aboard the Lolita Express When Jeffrey Epstein's 17-Year-Old "Sex Slave" Was Aboard

—Ace of Spades

If the pilot is telling the truth, this is damning -- private planes aren't big enough for the claim "I never saw her there" to be credible.

And if you saw her -- you didn't... ask a question?

And then you flew with her on the private plane again?

Prince Andrew flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet -- at least twice -- with the disgraced money manager's alleged 17-year-old sex slave Virginia Roberts on board, the pilot claimed.

The royal flew on the late financier’s private jet -- which has also played host to VIP guests including former President Bill Clinton, model Naomi Campbell and sex-scandal-plagued Hollywood star Kevin Spacey -- a number of times, according to a deposition by pilot David Rodgers, 66.

On two of those trips, Roberts -- who now goes by her married name Giuffre -- was also on board, according to the June 3, 2016 legal deposition, released to Giuffre's lawyers in New York 12 days ago. The deposition is among 2,000 court documents relating to a settled defamation case involving Giuffre and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

The revelation marks the first time allegations emerged that both Andrew and Virginia were on Epstein's jet at the same time.

Rolling Stone wants to know: Why is the Washington Post pushing conspiracy theories?

Establishment media figures also got into the game. On the morning of August 10th, Washington Post staffer Carol Leonnig tweeted a link to a news story she co-wrote with three other Washington Post reporters. The story itself was fairly straightforward, reiterating what were then the known facts of Epstein’s death. Leonnig's tweet, however, was less so. "People close to Epstein fear he was murdered," wrote the longtime Post staffer and 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner, citing reports that Epstein had told authorities someone had tried to kill him weeks earlier. "He was described as being in good spirits in recent days. . . ."

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But perhaps more to the point, the language of the tweet sounded suspiciously similar to the outpouring of conspiracy theories that have appeared following Epstein’s death, from those on the far right speculating that the Clintons were behind it to those on the left who pointed to Trump -- or, more often than not, just vaguely gestured at other unidentified, shadowy forces.

I'll add this: It's not that they're pushing conspiracy theories. It's that the media as a whole has decided that you are deserving of being deplatformed and fired from your job if you spread what the Ruling Class claims to be conspiracy theories.

Alex Jones, for example.

They went after Michael Flynn because his son tweeted about "PizzaGate."

They are branding "conspiracy theories" as essentially a species of White Supremacy.

Meanwhile, this class of supposed anti-conspiracy-theory zealots inflicted the Russia Collusion Conspiracy Theory on the nation for three fucking years.

Equally, they are recategorizing anti-government speech as a type of White Supremacy too. See that scorcher of a piece by Angelo Codevilla in the sidebar.

Yet, any conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein being murdered or deliberately given the privacy and encouragement to kill himself is of course, unavoidably, an "anti-government" idea.

So: Why is the Washington Post permitting one of its reporters not only to trade in conspiracy theories, but even to report on the story about which she is pushing out conspiracy theories?

And, next question:

What do they think is going to happen once people get sick of a nasty, brutalizing Ruling Class forcing harsh penalties on everyday citizens for violating supposed extralegislative laws that they themselves have perfect immunity from?

Ruling Classes that exist entirely to harass and harm the citizenry do not remain Ruling Classes long after the people realize that many of their problems could be solved by removing that class.

David French: Trump Is a Bigot Against Jews For Saying That Jews Who Vote Democrat Are Betraying Other Jews and Israel

—Ace of Spades

A friend snarks: "Trump should've just claimed not supporting Israel compromises Jewish witness. "

When he means is that David French routinely attacks Christians for betraying Christian morality for supporting Trump, i.e., voting Republican.

So it's bigoted when Trump does it, but just Followin' Jesus' Example when French does it.

The Pharisees and the Shep Smith Republicans will be the doom of us.

Former Senator Hank Brown Comments on His Former Colleague Joe Biden's Mental Fitness: "I will be surprised if he survives the primaries"

—Ace of Spades

I assume he intended "survives the primaries" to mean "prevails in the primaries," but who knows. Biden is old and fading.

Brown: Senator Biden is a pleasant, outgoing individual. He was consistently one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate. To hear him described as a moderate could happen only in Washington, D.C.

Freeman: For an unrelated project, I have just screened six hours of campaign tape on Joe Biden. As you might expect, an original thought did not once interrupt the partisan boilerplate. But there was another problem, a problem not unknown to those of us of a certain age. The word Biden was looking for was, more than occasionally, hidden in the back of a closet. You've watched him for more than 30 years. Is he up to the job he's applied for?

Brown: I never observed in him the qualities of intellect, vision, exceptional integrity, or savvy that are required in an effective president. I will be surprised if he survives the primaries.

Trump Doubles Down on Israel, Trashes Media in Press Conference

—Ace of Spades

Just moments ago.

Trump said something about the right to bear arms, and a leftwing agitator with a press pass said, "That's an NRA talking point," and Trump said, "That's a Trump talking point."

Democrat Front Group The Bulwark Claims That Pence Said "You Didn't Build That" (Spoiler: He Didn't)

—Ace of Spades

This group is obviously being funded mostly by Democrat money. They're now just another Democrat front group. They're not even pretending to be otherwise.

But shouldn't they, you know, pretend a little better?

I'm sure they have no ethical qualms about lying. They're just too lazy to bother.

Here's what Pence said, which, according to Jim "My Next Meal Depends on Pleasing My Leftwing Masters" Swift, is just like saying "You didn't build that:"

We’re going to keep fighting for American jobs and American opportunities and American manufacturing, not just for this great industrial heartland, but for all the hardworking men and women of this country.

And I want to promise all of you that it's those men and women that are never far from our minds. I mean, I'm talking about the people who make things and grow things; who spend their days building more than a Facebook page; who read the local paper, not the New York Times; who wear uniforms at home and abroad. (Applause.) I'm talking about people that put faith, and family, and freedom first. They love this country and they know what a blessing it is to be a citizen of the United States of America.

If you're wondering how this is anything like "You didn't build that," join the club. Jim Swift doesn't explain. I guess his Democrat paymasters aren't paying him enough to explain, just to assert.

Even this sad cuck gets it:

This is David Brock level stuff and yes I'm wondering if David Brock has brought this group of fellow traveler turncoats into his funding network.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

Hong Kong protestors are singing hymns. In fact, the hymn 'Sing Hallelujah to the Lord' has become the unofficial anthem of the protests. But that's not all. They're also flying the American flag and singing the American national anthem.

"For these reasons, it is clear that this is not a progressive protest. This is a conservative and even, dare I say it, a Christian-based protest. You can also tell this is not a progressive-based protest because the protesters are removing the rubbish from the streets after the protests. This is something progressives never do. If this were a pink hat/Anti-Trump hate fest protest, the entire city would look and smell like a homeless camp, the streets would be filthy, filled with rubbish, and dotted with steaming piles of poo. And petty crime would be rampant, and some not so petty, like rape. Yeah, #metoo, b*tches.

"You can also tell these are not progressive protests because they are remaining focused on the issue that sparked them, that is, Beijing's proposed new extradition rules. In contrast, rat bastard commie protests are all over the map, as every brain-dead progressive with a grudge and a general feeling of resentment and entitlement (which would be all of them, actually) shows up to push his/her/xir pet issue, whether it's hate Trump, hate Israel, hate white people, hate guns, hate America, or hate Trump. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what the protests are actually about because of all the sub-protests, and I also think a number of guys show up just to party and to see if they can pick up some loose trim. Yeah, #metoo again.

"Progressives are no doubt champing at the bit to get involved with the HK protests to turn them into a progressive hate orgy. They would love to do that. But so far, they appear to have been unable to. Perhaps it's because of the hymn-singing and the flying of the American flag unironically and with pride. Singing Christian hymns to a progressive is, heh, waving an actual cross in the face of an actual vampire. Because progressives can only exist by draining the life of others. So never invite progressives to your protest. They'll only cause trouble, sh* all over everything and then run away, leaving you to clean up their mess."

Compare & Contrast:

Socialism -- Promise vs. Reality:

What they promise socialism will be vs. what it actually ispic.twitter.com/IJSyzVWjjd

— Young Americans Against Socialism (@YAAS_America) August 20, 2019

Good To Know:

CDC: People With Dirt On Clintons Have 843% Greater Risk Of Suicidehttps://t.co/knwcO4tjId

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 10, 2019

Progressives Hardest Hit:

Chick-fil-A named America's favorite fast food restaurant, dethroning In-N-Out https://t.co/NnQJUaSazy pic.twitter.com/MQnFWmjtiA

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 2, 2019

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Monday's celebs: Singer/songwriter Rita Coolidge and one of her erstwhile paramours Leon Russell. I had them linked romantically, but I did not know there's another connection:

196 The Rita Coolidge / Leon Russell connection is that they were both members of Joe Cocker's band during the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour.

Posted by: Top.Man. at August 19, 2019 11:48 AM (FGTa+)

And not just Leon Russell. According to the 'Personal Life' section of her wiki page, Ms. Coolidge was very liberal with her affections in her younger years, and may have been a factor in the break-up of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young when she broke it off with Nash and hooked up with Stills. Or maybe it was the other way around, I forget. Another fun fact about Rita: there is credible evidence that she substantially wrote the coda for the Derek and the Dominos mega-hit Layla, for which she is uncredited (the 'coda' is the long piano solo at the end). The 'Layla' section of her wiki page has the story. Listen to this piece by her sister Priscilla and her husband Booker T. (yes, *that* Booker T.) and you'll hear what I'm talking about.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Special Announcement From FenelonSpoke:

Today is Fenelon’s final day for posting the prayer list for 1-2 months. She wishes to thank Slapweasel for his previous work as prayer coordinator and to OregonMuse for his posting of the list. Thanks to all the prayer warriors.

Prayers are important! Thanks to everyone who trusted me with the information with their “real” name. I never reveal your real name to anyone. I apologize for any mistakes or omissions which I have made. Please forgive me. The new prayer coordinator is “Annie’s stew” who says this about herself: “I am a Christian woman who believes in God and obeying Him. and bringing our requests to Him. I wait for the prayer list every Wednesday and pray accordingly.” Annie’s stew can be reached at: apaslo atsign hotmail dot com.

Thanks to Annie’s stew is taking over the responsibility and may God bless her!

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact "Annie's stew", the AoSHQ prayer list coordinator. You can contact her at

apaslo atsign hotmail dot com

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

Praise reports:

Pooky’s girl has gotten a PT job-which pays well-working with Pooky (Thanks be to God!), which will hopefully lessen stress on Pooky and his boss and help alleviate some stress on Pooky which might be affecting his testosterone level. So please pray for Pooky’s husband as well.

Winston, a dreg of society, his friend Dee is doing better after her fall. Thanks for the prayers, horde

SturmToddler-Post op after surgery turned out well. They got all the cancer and he is healing more quickly than expectd. He thanks the horde for the prayers!

Requests for continued prayer:

For healing from cancer:

OldDog’sinMo’s wife , Slapweasel (also for an organ donor) and strength in caring for elderly parents with have memory and other issues, Cheribee, also Tami’s daughter, Circa’s brother, VNRedLeg, Scott M., Fox 2!’s friend, Mary Beth for healing from bladder cancer, Mother of a co-worker of Josephistan , Rickl-healing from cancer-he has an additional lesion and numbness in back area, Suzanne’s friend Kevin-told that he has six months to live-is praying for a miracle. For Laura who has metastastic breast cancer and told she has 3 years to live. Flounder’s MIL, continued healing from cancer

Other continuing health issues and requested prayers for healing:

Fixeupperupper’s mothers-kidney function. Michelle’s son- continued recovery from car accident.. Sock-rat-eeze, for things to go smoothly so that he can have reversal of colostomy. USNTakin and wife-he asked particularly that she have relief from pain, but strength and relief from pain for both of them. For Allison- in her 30’s-for complete healing after a stroke after having a baby. For healing for Josephistan’s mom who has difficulty with daily tasks and is anxious and withdrawn. Also strength for him caring for his mom as he is alone in doing this. Help in finding a caregiver. He also needs job help. Hrothgar’s SIL, for diabetes related neuropathy. Poster ET going through a difficult time. Beltway Elite’s mother-recovery while in recovery from stroke.
Hrothgar’s friend, a hospice counselor who needs healing after being affected by fumes from muriatic acid.

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

Updates and new requests:

7/13-tbodie prayers for oldest child who is going through a hard time with depression but has stabilized somewhat.

7/16-Deep State in Deep Sh** asked for prayer for friend, Tiffany, in 2nd fight with cancer, not as bad as first time, but still needs prayers for healing

7/17-Fenelon asks for prayers for Ray, who had chemo and a bone marrow transplant for blood cancer. Needs healing.

7/19-Rickl MRI of shoulder blade showed additional lesion. Has numbness in back and buttocks. May have another tumor. Was starting chemo again July 23. Prayers for healing.

7/19-Prayers for continued healing for Anna Puma’s dad. Had heart attack and stent was put in.

7/19-Juddgement’s BIL has severe depression was walking on road in daze, but after some conversation with his BIL is taking his meds without prompting and is doing better. Continued prayers for his recovery and strength for family in dealing with his situation are appreciated.

7/19-Prayers for healing and strengthening for Kindltot’s dad in short term nursing home for rehab, and safety for Kindltot as they travel back and forth to see their dad

7/19-For Pooky’s girl and her husband for rough places made smooth- for healing and for dealing with insurance issues as no two plans cover same things

7/21 -Duke’ Lowell’s son in U.S. Merchant Marine head to Suez canal and East Coast of Africa, Prayers for he and his shipmates.

7/23-Dave, having surgery having 3rd disk in neck repaired.

7/23-Mr. Aspirin Factory ‘s childhood friend killed in a freak accident. Leaves behind wife and teenage daughters. Prayers for grieving family and friends.

7/24-Jane D’oh’s son has swollen knee and torn meniscus. Going to see an orthopedic doctor. Needs treatment and complete healing.

7/25-Cookie, friend of Artisanal’ette, retired Air Force colonel has cancer, told she has 3 months to live. Prayers for complete healing. She is also caring for a daughter, a victim of violent rape, afraid to leave home.

7/29-Sturmtoddler had kidney surgery July 23. He is at home convalescing. Surgery was textbook. Just waiting for biopsy on removed cyst. Doctor says mass was removed. Prayers for complete healing.

7/31-LizardBrain’s Brother-in-law and little sister are 1600 miles away from him. Brother-in-law has cancer. Lizards Brain’s little sister’s (n her 60’s) had fetal alcohol syndrome, and has difficulty navigating maze of VA bureaucrats and medical procedures. Prayers for guidance, helpful people, healing, and comfort.

8/1-BifBewalkski-continued healing after surgery.

8/4-Vic’s younger brother needs to have bypass surgery.

8/5-Moki’s daughter found out that her immune system is compromised. She had a 3 centimeter hole in bladder and had to have bladder and kidneys reconstructed. Prayers for healing and strengthening in order for her to go back to school.

8/5-Redc1c4’s father has gone to be with the Lord. Prayers for strength and comfort for his dad’s family and friends.

8/6-Mrs. Hadrian IV-Continued strengthening and recovery after knee replacement.

8/6-NaCly Dog’s wife has type 1 diabetes and back issues. Needs more energy and strength and ability to move more easily without pain. Also needs blessings. light, and rough places made smooth.

8/12-Bete in reflection is undergoing treatment for bone marrow cancer and had a biopsy last week. Prayers for complete healing.

8/13-Eric on total disability. Dealing with an ex wife who’s making things extraordinarily difficult. Asked for prayers for prayers that rough places are made smooth and for protection for his 14 year old daughter while he’s away from her.

8/13-Fenelon asks for prayers for Arlene who is waiting to have valve replacement of next week

8/14- ibguy asked for prayers for the grandniece of a co-worker of his, Elena, a 2 and ½ year old how has rhabdoid tumor, every aggressive form of cancer which doesn’t have a good survival rate. Prayers for complete healing and relief from pain.

8/16-Grammie’s daughter is on a mission trip to Swaziland to give nursing care for children and women affected by sex trafficking. For a safe mission ands safe return home.

8/21-CGE-Of The Moron herd- His daughter, Jessica’s son 17 year old was victim of a drive by shooting and had died. Prayers for comfort and strength of family and friends

8/21-Prayers for healing for Fenelon are appreciated.

Job needs and concerns:

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

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

PDX Republican needs sedentary PT job.

Hadrian IV is looking for new job and has Skype interview, today I believe.

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

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

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

Please note; Prayer requests are generally removed after five weeks or so unless I receive an update. This in NOT because we don’t care; It’s simply because of lack of space. Updates as well as thanks for answered prayer and new prayer requests are always welcomed.

Please feel free to copy requests which you see on the board and send them to me. I am unable to be on the board all the time, even though it seems like I am, and so if people don’t tell me about prayer requests I may have no way of knowing. Thx and God bless!

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:

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

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Steel Foundry, Coatesville, Pa.
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The Morning Report - 8/21/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. Middle of the week and the officially sanctioned Democrat Party anti-Semitism remains a hot topic, but it's President Trump's reaction to it that underscores one of his greatest strengths: His willingness, even eagerness to fight back. From our Politics section, Rabbi Aryeh Spero writing in American Greatness:

...People mischaracterize and belittle Trump's tweets as un-presidential and unbecoming of his office. He can be crude, to be sure. In reality, the president is using the platform [Twitter] to deny and challenge the assertions of the people - media manipulators and rabble-rousing liberal politicians - who would disdain and debase this great country... For truly, when Trump's opponents smear him over his position on immigration, borders, nationalism, patriotism, or they call him a racist, they don't mean just him. They are talking about you and me and anyone who holds similar positions...

[UPDATE: Several commenters are correct to take exception to the Rabbi's declamation that the president "can be crude" without citing one single incident of his alleged crudeness. I agree with them. He's far from crude. He's honest. Paraphrasing Harry Truman, "he gives them the truth and they think it's hell."]

The President's taking to Twitter or any available microphone on any given occasion to defend himself, and really all of us as the good Rabbi states, has got the Democrat-Left-Media and their cuckservative confederates completely apoplectic. It's not that he offends their sensibilities and all that rot. It's because by going after them, mostly with all the subtlety and sophistication of two sets of brass knuckles and a cutting torch, he cuts through their lies and distortions, exposing them as the frauds they are and forcing them to defend the indefensible. That is something that's never been done, with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan. And if polling and anecdotal evidence showing significant defections among blacks, Latinos and other heretofore solidly Democrat constituencies is any indicator, it poses an existential threat to that party's electoral competitiveness and, what they considered as little as three years ago, electoral domination. Hence, open borders and now the "white supremacy" myth.

It's a two-fisted attack by Donny Two-Scoops; expose the lies and then make them commit multiple self-inflicted dick-punches or rake-steps in trying to defend the indefensible. All one has to do is look at the way Dubya or the past two GOP nominees handled their attackers; curl up in a ball, beg for mercy and blame their own supposed base for all their alleged sins. No more. Hell, they never once called out their opponents or policies, as was SOP for the GOP. And that was half the problem. In not responding to being tarred and feathered as the illegitimate child of Snidely Whiplash and Adolf Hitler, too many Americans were led to believe that the party of slavery, racism and in-utero (and now ex-utero) baby killing were the good guys. While it certainly helped to have virtually the entire media and academia from K to post-grad in their back pockets, especially in the pre-alternative media age, it was no excuse to not fight back. Note that it's assholes like George Will who out of one side of their cake-holes claim politics ain't beanbag while out the other proclaim fighting back in any manner, let alone the way the orange-comb-over gavone from Queens does, is beneath the dignity of elected office. But I digress.

Trump rhetorically kicking over the tables of the moneychangers in the temple I think is going to be, or has the potential to be, a sea change in American politics going forward. But, delicious as it all is, it wouldn't have been worth jack shit had his policies, especially the tax cuts and tariffs, not created the greatest economic boom in a century. That too was a slap in the face to the globalists who both poo-pooed it as "a magic wand" and because it disproved their own previously unassailable economic theories. More crucially, it threw a monkey wrench into their plot to destroy our economy and serve us up to some sort of Soros-led world dictatorship on a silver platter.

As I said, it has the potential to be a political sea change, but since sadly, Trump cannot be president for the next 40 years, the big question is will his way of doing things be the spark that ignites Trumpism as a political movement or is it going to be a mere flash in the pan (cue lyrics to We Don't Need Another Hero, in the bridge just before the sax solo)? Whatever the future holds, things cannot and will not go on as before, not with the Democrat Party fully exposed to a much broader audience as the evil tyrants we always knew them to be. For sure, come the inevitable day they do recapture the White House, "interesting times" will most definitely ensue.

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM

• Trump Blasts Anti-Semitic Democrats: They "Hate Israel and Hate Jewish People"
  
• President Trump: Jews Voting Democrat Show "Total Lack of Knowledge or Great Disloyalty"
  
• Prager: Criticism of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitism; Anti-Zionism Is
  
• Harsanyi: Don't Fall For Bro-Fo's and Rancida's Lies About Israel
  
• Rabbi Fischer: The Myth of Jewish Influence in the Democrat Party

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION, BORDER SECURITY

  To Trump's signature issue that is part and parcel of the planned dismantling of America as founded, namely immigration and border security. The links are few but they're pretty damned crucial where the DoJ has made the case to SCOTUS that Obama's unilateral DACA amnesty is completely illegal, and as we await Chief Justice Julia Roberts to tell us "it's a tax," the administration is now going after the idiotic Flores ruling that was the actual culprit in separating families so that they all can be held together indefinitely, as they should be, before being repatriated back to where they came from. Lastly, ICE seizes enough fentanyl to wipe out a mid-sized city in one fell swoop. But ICE is the equivalent of the SS, or so we've been told 88,888,888 times already.

• Justice Department Tells Supreme Court: DACA Amnesty Is Illegal
  
• Trump Administration Seeks To Terminate Flores Settlement Limiting Detention Of Migrant Families
  
• A Single ICE Bust Seizes Enough Fentanyl to Kill "750,000 People," Says Prosecutor

  CIVILWAR 2.0

  Leftist mayor of Portland Ted Wheeler posts a nice little photo of him and wifey strolling down a quiet street that only a day earlier saw heads getting bashed in by the black-clad brown-shirts, and I'm sure it will be a shock to learn that this former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi of the "Heil Hitler Eighty Eight" blood libeling of everyone who vote for President Trump, was appointed as Assistant Director for Counterintelligence by... Robert J. Mueller. My Fredo-nian translation skills are not at Berlitz level, but Figliuzzi seems to mean "teaser of children." YMMV.

• "Resign": Portland Mayor Blasted For Oblivious Photo Of Him and His Wife
  
• Unhinged Former FBI Director Targets Trump Supporters

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

  Hmm, the Dems sure hate dark money but it seems as if some money is more dark than others, Judicial Watch goes after Sheldon Whorehouse for playing a lawyer on television, and also from Rhode Island, this Governor Raimondo is facing an ethics investigation over shady dealings in her capacity as the head of the Democrat Governors Association. So far, that's three known assholes with the name of Raimondo.

• Dem Dark Money Group Begins Ads in Support of Dems Opposed to Dark Money
  
• Maine Dark Money Group Behind False Ad Tied to Sara Gideon
  
• Judicial Watch Files Complaint Against Sheldon Whorehouse Alleging Unauthorized Practice of Law
  
• Dem Governor Faces Ethics Investigation (are all assholes named "Raimondo?" - jjs)

  JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S DEATH

  He's still dead.

  POLITICS

  On the political scene, despite the brain farts and wife with all the affection of Stella Mudd CNN is putting Joey Bidet back into a double-digit lead as Kamala-Toe shrivels along with Mayor Buttplug, while Julian Castro will be in next month's debate. Tom Perez has to go south of the border for dinero, the Searchlight Strangler even thinks the progressivism stinks (except for the pedophilia), pollsters are just sham artists, Kentucky Dem candidate opposing Matt Bevin is as dumb as a bollard at the World Trade Center, Andrew Cuomo threatens to break legs if you say "Fredo," Michael Goodwin rips De Bolshevik, farmers and minorities high on PDT, John C. Calhoun and today's Dems and another look at the "white supremacy" myth.

• New CNN Poll: 12-Point Decline for Kamala-Toe, "Brains" Bidet Regains Double Digit Lead
  
• Poll: Boat Shoes Buttplug, Kamala-Toe Five-O No Longer "Top Tier" Candidates
  
• New CNN Poll Qualifies Julian Castro For September Democratic Debate
  
• Tom Perez Holds Fundraisers In Mexico As DNC Struggles To Raise Money
  
• Harry Reid Trashes Progressive Proposals Pushed By 2020 Democrats
  
• Have Pollsters Learned Nothing since the Last Election?
  
• Kentucky Democrats Revive "Deplorable" Label With Attack on Republican Governor (run on that again, Dems - jjs)
  
• Andrew Cuomo: "Don't You Dare Liken My Family" to The Godfather (...or I'll have your legs broken - jjs)
  
• Goodwin: Dear Mayor De Bolshevik - An Open Letter to Our Hapless Mayor
  
• Why Farmers Aren't Going To Abandon Trump Over the Trade War
  
• Trump Is Fighting the Battles No One Was Willing to Fight
  
• Why Trump's Approval Ratings Are Up Among Minorities
  
• When "White" Became an Ideology and Not a Human Reality
  
• The Ghost of John C. Calhoun Haunts Today's American Left

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH

  Trump rips media for recession agitprop, Slimes hides the economic boon in defending our borders, Chi-Coms use our Big Brother Tech to crush HK rebels, and CNN lied about ICE in a baby separation story. Shocking.

• President Trump: Many in Establishment Media "Would Love to See a Recession"
  
• NY Times Hides Economic Truth to Smear Trump's Policies as "Anti-Immigrant"
  
• China Launches Massive Twitter, Facebook Propaganda Campaign Against Hong Kong Protesters
  
• Medical Exam Contradicts CNN Story About ICE Separating Nursing Mother From Baby

  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Ace hit this yesterday but it seems that Trump's initial talk about more gun control in the wake of El Paso and Dayton was a ruse. I hope.

• President Trump: We Won't Sacrifice Gun Rights to "Slippery Slope" (I knew he was just giving lip service - jjs)

  ABORTION

  Cookie Milano is a rotten crumb, and the myth of Planned Parenthood as women's health provider is exploded.

• "Cookie" Milano Says Her "Life Would Be Completely Lacking" If Not For Her Abortions (strychnine, FTW, Cookie - jjs)
  
• Planned Parenthood Shows "True Colors," Choses Abortion Over Federal Health Care Dollars

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  Tom Cotton warns Chi-Coms about cracking down on Hong Kong, Fredo-nian PM resigns paving way for Salvini to be first EU populist PM, Aussies join US to patrol Strait of Hormuz, mullahs mulling more meshugas, Brits release blockade running oil tanker that funds IRGC as US warns ports not to assist it, US talking to Venezuelan drug kingpin about ousting Maduro in exchange for immunity (meh, one Manuel Noriega was enough), is Mike Pompeo succumbing to swamp gas fever?, and notes on the leaked no-deal Brexit notes.

• Cotton: Chinese Military Action Against Hong Kong Protests Would Be "Grave Miscalculation"
  
• Italian PM Conte Resigns, Paving Way for Matteo Salvini to Take Over
  
• Australia Joins US-Led Shipping Protection Mission in Strait of Hormuz
  
• The Mullahs' Provocations: Iran Heightens the Stakes
  
• UK Releases Oil Tanker Accused Of Assisting Iranian Terrorist Group
  
• Report: US in Talks with Venezuelan "Drug Kingpin" Diosdado Cabello About Ousting Maduro
  
• Pompeo Pressures Trump Into Kneecapping Planned Cuts To Foreign Aid
  
• Germany Will Now Work To Meet NATO Obligations After US Ambassador Calls Out Their Deficiency
  
• As Released Iranian Supertanker Heads for Greece, US Warns Ports Not to Assist It
  
• The Leaked No-Deal Brexit Document Is A Wake-Up Call For Transparency

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  Graft, fraud and waste in the name of national defense.

• NDAA Shakeup Is a Shakedown for America's National Security

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION

  Three on the collapse of the Golden State into third world shit-hole status.

• California's Homeless Crisis Pushes Business Owner Out
  
• Kanye West's "Star Wars" Domes for Homeless Battles the "Dark Side" of California's Permit Process
  
• Where Has the Money Gone? San Francisco's Political Leadership Has Squandered a Fortune

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Is Governor Abbott going RINO on crime, Gavin Gruesome kneecaps Cali cops and Michael Ledeen looks at the mass shooting phenomenon.

• Who Needs Leftists? GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Endorses Radical "Ban the Box" Pro-Criminal Mandate on Employers
  
• Gavin Gruesome Signs Use-of-Deadly-Force Bill Aimed at "Changing the Culture of Policing"
  
• Ledeen: Mass Murder on a Rampage

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  Three more on why academia needs to be nuked from orbit.

• Study Finds Increasing Number of Republicans and Independents Say Colleges are Bad for America
  
• How Publicly Funded Colleges Encourage Dangerous Sex With Porn, Condoms, And Lies
  
• Short-Circuiting the Natural Love of Learning in Young People

  HEALTHCARE

  More government intrusion via your kids' back-to-school physical exams, RINO-care sucks and Daniel Greenfield looks at the Democrat Mengele-ization of fatsos.

• Back to School Physicals Turn into Parenting Inquisition under New Rules for Abuse Screening
  
• "RINO-Care" Would Not Work
  
• Greenfield: National Socialist Medicine and the Eugenics of the Overweight

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  Please dismantle the entire EPA and DoE.

• Federal Energy Program Suggests Keeping Thermostat at 78, Clearly Never Having Experienced a Summer in the South

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

  Yup.

• Transgender Insanity: Another Big Battle in the War on Common Sense

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  Christian Toto dismantles the Obama/Netflix propaganda machine, Salena Zito on the poison of social(ist) media, this is why I'm glad I never had kids, and another look at the 80th anniversary of the Hitler/Stalin pact that touched off World War 2.

• Toto: Flashback - That Obamas/Netflix Deal Isn't Political at All!
  
• Zito: The Perils of Trading Social Interaction for Social Media
  
• Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent
  
• Eight Decades On: Lessons From Perhaps the Most Evil Diplomatic Triumph in History

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

NOTE https://www.city-journal.org/san-franciscos-municipal-budget: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (8/20/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“We are hugely disappointed to learn of this, and it is being dealt with in cooperation with the relevant authorities. Salford City does not tolerate the use of racist or abusive language or behaviour and we will take relevant action against the person responsible in conjunction with Greater Manchester Police" Spokesperson for Salford City

Quote II

The next time a legislator, mayor, or governor rails about plastic straws or the Paris Climate Accord, be assured that his state’s roads are clogged, his public schools failing—and he is clueless or indifferent about it.Victor Davis Hanson

Quote III

“Equality is a fundamental right of every citizen and a duty of our society,” she declares. “Equal opportunities are not only an indispensable feature of a democratic society, but also a crucial foundation for a nation’s innovation, economy and general well-being.Maddalena Marini

Quote IV

“Many of the most serious diseases today are a function of aging. Thus, identifying the molecular mechanisms and treatments of aging should be an urgent priority. Unless we address aging at its root cause, we’re not going to continue our linear, upward progress toward longer and longer life spans.” David Sinclair, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School

Quote V

In any event, thanks to immigrants, all Americans are learning the vital importance of ethnic chauvinism and territorial sovereignty for your own ethnic group.

The epitaph on the El Paso Walmart mass shooting should be: Diversity is a strength! Ann Coulter

Quote VI

“A career in Washington was never my objective. My objective has always been to address significant challenges this nation faces: trade, health care, immigration, and infrastructure to name just a few.

“However, it appears to me that rhetoric overwhelms policy, and politics consumes much of the oxygen in this city. The time has come to make a difference for my family – to focus my time and energy upon them, their needs, their goals, As George Washington is quoted: ‘I would rather be on my farm than emperor of the world.’”Rep. Paul Mitchell

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F*ck Netflix.

Barack and Michelle Obama are gearing up for the release of their new Netflix film, American Factory, which explores the Unites States’ heartland economy.

The Obamas’ film, which largely profiles a factory in Ohio, has been described as “anti-Trump” in a review published in POLITICO.

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Of course they used a GoFundMe campaign. Socialists can only use other people's money. Until it runs out.

Three Chicago teachers and a union organizer used a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a trip to Venezuela. The teachers, all members of the Chicago Teachers Union, wrote public blogs and social media posts casting the socialist government of the country in a favorable light.

The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that the educators have been criticized for their trip and praise of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. The Chicago Teachers Union also distanced itself from those who went on the trip, putting out a statement that it was not an official union trip and was not funded by the union.

“Members go all kinds of places in the summer. This was neither an official trip nor something that was funded by the union,” CTU president Jesse Sharkey told WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight.” “This is a group of people who are members of the CTU who decided to go to Venezuela.”

Frightening they are anywhere near children.

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Don't feel bad bears. I wouldn't want to interact with this tourist either.

The note reads as follows. “Our visit was wonderful but we never saw any bears. Please train your bears to be where guests can see them. This was an expensive trip to not get to see bears.

Anyone can understand spending a lot of money on a vacation and it not living up to your expectations. That is just bad luck. But, I cannot wrap my head around the expectation of the bears being trained to be where visitors can regularly see them. I don’t think this person understands nature or the fact that Yellowstone is NOT a zoo.

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Vaping linked health issues in 14 states reported.

In one Wisconsin case, a 26-year-old man with asthma ended up in an intensive care unit in July with difficulty breathing after vaping THC oil he bought on the street, NPR reported. (THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol is the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.) The man’s blood-oxygen levels dropped to just 10% and he was placed in medically induced coma.

Now out of the hospital, he told NPR that he suspects his illness was linked to the THC oil. "The oil in the cartridge was really watered down. And it was pee-colored, it wasn't supposed to be that color, it's supposed to be dark amber," he said.

He cautioned other people who vape THC: "If you are going to smoke, just stick to the dispensaries. Don't buy stuff off the street where you don't know where it's coming from."

If you buy THC oil in WI, you truly are an idiot. There is no legal marijuana in the state.

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Bernie Sanders. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to put an end to police use of facial recognition software. Sanders called for the ban as part of a criminal justice reform plan introduced today ahead of a two-day tour of South Carolina.

The plan also calls for the ban of for-profit prisons and would revoke the practice of law enforcement agencies benefiting from civil asset forfeitures.

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Does the internet play too large a part of our lives? This is what would happen if the internet shut down suddenly.

In the event of a global internet shutdown…

…autonomous vehicles freeze in place almost instantly. On highways, automatic tolls no longer allow any vehicle to go through them, creating massive traffic jams.

…on the streets, myriad passersby look at their empty-shell communicative devices, while bearing witness to several crashes of postal or other delivery drones.

…fully-automated sellers and cashiers, now disconnected, lead to the expeditious shutdown of supermarkets and hypermarkets which exclusively rely on them. In any case, a cashless, electronic currency-based society wouldn’t now know how to pay for things.

…vast regions are deprived of electricity, as providers are no longer able to receive correctly information from their sensors on the power grid and at individuals’ homes, and are no longer able to properly manage the supply of many areas.

…almost all the worldwide industrial production stalls. Financial centers have immediately suspended all their operations, canceling, in passing, all orders currently being processed.

And so on…

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A President Marianne Williamson would be a hoot, if she weren't so dangerous.

She called the elite U.S. war machine “obsolete” and that “we can no longer rely on force to rid ourselves of international enemies.”

“The planet has become too small for that, and in so doing, we overburden our military by asking them to compensate for the other work that we choose not to do, and we are less effective, and less secure, because of our choices,” said Ms. Williamson, author of several best-selling inspirational books.

Earlier, Ms. Williamson floated plans for a new Department of Children and Youth that would focus on protecting and uplifting the country’s children.

There are "Americans" who hate with enough of it to kill other Americans. Not sure how the world wide peace plan would work. Delusional.

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I like my house at 70 degrees in the heating season. I like my house at 72 degrees in the cooling season. The government can keep their damn hands off my thermostat. My body, my choice.

Energy Star, the federal program from the DOE and the Environmental Protection Agency, said the coolest you should keep your home is 78 degrees when you're home.

When you're at work or away, the program recommends setting it at 85 degrees. When you're sleeping, Energy Star said to set the thermostat at 82 degrees.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: 20 Aug 1948
Robert Plant, singer with Led Zeppelin who had the 1969 US No.4 single Whole Lotta Love. The bands fourth album released in 1971 featuring the rock classic Stairway To Heaven has sold over 37 million copies. Plant had the 1983 solo hit single Big Log. Also a member of The Honeydrippers, (with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck & Nile Rodgers), who had the 1984 US No.3 single Sea Of Love. Plant scored the Grammy award winning 2007 album Raising Sand with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day: 20 Aug 1949
Phil Lynott, Irish singer, songwriter, bass player, Thin Lizzy. (1973 UK No.6 single 'Whisky In The Jar'). Lynott died on 4th Jan 1986 of heart failure and pneumonia after being in a coma for eight days following a drug overdose. A life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin in 2005. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Underwear, socks and Genius Award Winner.

A would-be burglar wearing underwear as a mask and socks as gloves attempted a forced entry in the 5:00 hour Sunday morning August 11th at the Apex Cannabis located at 21502 East Gilbert Road in Otis Orchards.

The suspect prepared for the many security cameras at the cannabis shop by wrapping underwear around his head in a mask-like disguise. He used a pry bar to attempt entry but set off the alarm alerting law enforcement.

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Once a mother, always a mother. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Ada Keating, a 98-year-old mother of four, recently moved into a care home in Huyton, Liverpool, not because she couldn’t take care of herself, but to look after her 80-year-old son Tom.

Tom Keating became a resident of the Moss View retirement home in 2016, when it became clear that he was no longer able to care for himself. His mother Ada joined him after about a year, when it became apparent that he would require additional support. The mother and son, originally from Wavertree, share a special bond, as Tom never married and had always lived with Ada. Tom was a painter and decorator at HE Simm building services before his retirement, while Ada was an auxiliary nurse at the former Mill Road Hospital. They lived together in the family home for most of their lives, and now do so again, in a retirement home.

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Close it up

Claim: Trump Has Reassured Wayne LaPierre, Current Head of the NRA, That Universal Background Checks Are Off the Table in Gun Discussions

—Ace of Spades

Weirdly, I saw NeverTrumpers complaining about Trump's lack of dedication to pushing for universal background checks.

New Allegations Against Jeffrey Epstein Are Almost Impossible to Believe -- Almost

—Ace of Spades

Horrors beyond horrors are alleged in the newly-released details of a 2015 lawsuit.

I should stress these are allegations, untested by any finder of fact.

Next Top Model scout Jean-Luc Brunel flew poor 12-year-old triplets in from France as a BIRTHDAY PRESENT for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse, unsealed documents claim

High-profile Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre described the sadistic birthday present in unsealed court documents from a 2015 lawsuit

She said the millionaire bragged about paying to have the 12-year-old girls, believed to be sisters, flown in from France for one day

The gift allegedly came from Epstein's longtime friend Jean-Luc Brunel

Epstein invested $1million to help launch Brunel's Miami-based modeling firm MC2, in return for a 'supply of girls on tap', the suit claims

Brunel allegedly supplied illegitimate visas for underage girls from foreign countries and Epstein housed them at his brother's apartment in Manhattan

The model scout, 72, has denied all involvement in Epstein's alleged crimes

The Jerusalem Post has further nearly unbelievable claims.

One of Epstein's partners, Jean-Luc Bruno, was suspected of providing the pedophile with minors for the purpose of sexually assaulting them. Bruno opened an international modeling agency by the name of MC2 through which he managed to collect approximately 1000 teenage girls for Epstein.

According to testimony's by some of Bruno's previous employees, he would obtain visas for the girls into the United States and would even join some of Epstein's journeys around the world.

...

Epstein even owned an apartment in the heart of Paris, where many underage women were seen alongside celebrities, whose names were banned from advertising.

I think that "advertising" is actually a mistranslation of "publicization." These words are often confused in translating.

Is this stuff real?

True Conservative and NeverTrump Model of What a Real Republican Looks Like Mitt Romney: Let's Pass a Carbon Tax to Stop All This Deadly Global Warming

—Ace of Spades

Hey, remember a few weeks back when I noted the new trend in Fake Republicanism, such as the kind practiced by Frank Luntz and David French, was to start talking up carbon taxes and leftist environmentalist dogma?

Well, here's your Third Time Proves the Rule.

From KUTV:

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday that he believes climate change is happening and human activity is a significant contributor.

During a speech at the conservative Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City, the senator acknowledged that the position is rare among his fellow Republicans, but one that younger people seem to respond to more strongly than older conservatives.

"In some respects, (by speaking with newer conservatives), I'll be able to make inroads with some of the young people coming along," he said...

...

Romney discussed the benefits of a carbon tax, a fee based on each ton of carbon dioxide emissions produced by fossil fuels that some major oil companies have adopted.

So bets, please: How long until the majority of NeverTrump gets behind this, all the while claiming that they're sticking with Eternal Conservative Principle while "grifters" adapt their positions to match Trump's?

Thanks to Deep State is Deep Shit.

lol: Disney and Sony Unable to Reach Deal on Renewing Rights-Sharing Agreement Over Spider-Man; Disney/Marvel Will Go Back to Plan of SJW Characters No One Cares About

—Ace of Spades

lol.

Now, this could very well just be saber-rattling. As a James Bond fan, I heard many times that Roger Moore was done with the role, before news broke that he'd just signed to do another one at for an assumedly-larger paycheck.

But at the moment, Sony thinks it doesn't need Marvel to make Spider-Man work.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige won't produce any further Spider-Man films because of an inability by Disney and Sony Pictures to reach new terms that would have given the former a co-financing stake going forward. A dispute that has taken place over the past few months at the top of Disney and Sony has essentially nixed Feige, and the future involvement of Marvel from the Spider-Man universe, sources said.

Sony is probably fighting for some kind of deal that cedes them the Spider-Man character in perpetuity or near-perpetuity. Marvel is meanwhile thinking that if they let Sony make Spider-Man movies, they'll just fail again, and eventually give the character up due to not making movies at the contractually-specified pace (something like a minimum of one Spider-Man movie every 4 or 5 years or something).

The article explained the disagreement. It's just about money:

There is a lot of webbing here, but it all comes down to money, and it’s easy to understand why both sides refused to give ground. Disney asked that future Spider-Man films be a 50/50 co-financing arrangement between the studios, and there were discussions that this might extend to other films in the Spider-Man universe. Sony turned that offer down flat, and I don’t believe they even came back to the table to figure out a compromise. Led by Tom Rothman and Tony Vinciquerra, Sony just simply didn’t want to share its biggest franchise. Sony proposed keeping the arrangement going under the current terms where Marvel receives in the range of 5% of first dollar gross, sources said. Disney refused.

This leaves Marvel Disney with:

Iron Man dead

Captain America retired and "super-aged"

Black Widow dead

Hawkeye retired and even when he wasn't retired, still just Hawkeye

Hulk still partly controlled by Universal

Spider-Man apparently departed for the sure-to-fail "Sony Spider-Man Cinematic Universe"

Thor supposedly still around, but probably soon to be replaced by his gender-swapped replacement, also called "Thor" because no one would see a movie called "The Savage Sword of Jane Foster."

Marvel still has:

Captain Marvel, a character no one cares about played by an actress no one likes

Ms. Marvel, a Muslim-American girl who can stretch and enlarge her body like Mr. Fantastic, who no one really likes

The Fantastic Four, a team that has failed three times at the box office before, led by Mr. Fantastic, who no one really likes

The badly damaged X-Men, a very diminished brand due to overexposure and bad movie outings

The Eternals, a group of cosmic beings who never did much in sales or impact, who are complete ripoffs of DC's New Gods, another group of cosmic beings who never did much in sales or impact. Both groups were created by Jack Kirby in his declining years.

Nova, a character you never heard of and for good reason too

Quasar, a character who can be described as "the poor man's Nova"

Pulsar, a character who could be described as "a gender- and race-swapped Quasar"

Black Panther, a very overpowered and overrated character that White Liberals and Fake Geeks pretended to be totally in love with for two months

Ant-Man, a character that even Marvel itself treats like an embarrassing joke

and the Guardians of the Galaxy. I always thought this franchise was dumb, "science fiction" for people who don't like science fiction, "action" for Fake Geek Girls who don't like actual action, and I gotta think the public appetite for this crew is fading.

Oh, and I forgot: They're reviving Blade, which people are pretending to be excited about. And rumor has it that Blade will be religion-swapped to be... duh duh duh... a Muslim.

Despite the fact that characters in Marvel movies who might be expected to be Christian are never noted as such. "Christian" means, in Marvel, not really religious at all, but Blade, rumor has it, will be characterized with religious belief.

There will be no religion in all of Marvel except for Islam and... well, Norse, I guess.

So that's what Marvel has to work with going forward. Some old characters no one really cares about and some new characters no one's ever really liked.

In unrelated yet related news, Disney's stocks slid a bit due to a whistleblower claiming that Disney had overstated its income by billions in years past.

A former Walt Disney Co. accountant says she has filed a series of whistleblower tips with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the company has materially overstated revenue for years.

Sandra Kuba, formerly a senior financial analyst in Disney's DIS, -0.12% revenue-operations department who worked for the company for 18 years, alleges that employees working in the parks-and-resorts business segment systematically overstated revenue by billions of dollars by exploiting weaknesses in the company's accounting software.

Kuba said she has met with officials from the SEC on several occasions to discuss the allegations.

A spokeswoman for the SEC declined to comment.
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Kuba's whistleblower filings, which have been reviewed by MarketWatch, outline several ways employees allegedly boosted revenue, including recording fictitious revenue for complimentary golf rounds or for free guest promotions. Another alleged action Kuba described in her SEC filing involved recording revenue for $500 gift cards at their face value even when guests paid a discounted rate of $395.

Kuba has also alleged that employees sometimes recorded revenue twice for gift cards, both when guests bought the gift card and when it was used at a resort. Sometimes, revenue was recorded even though a gift card was given to a guest for free following a customer complaint, for instance, according to the whistleblower's allegations.

Disney calls these charges "without merit."

Which is what I call its dying Star Wars brand, but that's a separate issue.

The Surgeon Who Performed Two Operations To Fix Joe Biden's Defective Brain: I Can Assure You That Joe Biden's Brain Is, For the Moment, "Functioning"

—Ace of Spades

The man who frequently loses his chain of thought and speaks in gibberish and who is increasingly kept "cloistered" by his staff to keep the public from seeing more of his cognitive disabilities has a brain that is, arguably, "functioning"?

That's the most Biden's doctor can say in support of his brain? That it's currently "functioning"?

And that his brain isn't any worse than it used to be, when he was also, um, special?

How very unreassuring.

Deliberately unreassuring? Who can say, who can say.

But it is interesting, some of have pointed out, that Barack Obama won't endorse him.

Is Obama not as reassured by Biden's "functioning" brain as he'd like to be?

If you're worried that a guy who started out as a dummy might not be up to being president as his already cognitively-suspect brain experiences a quickening tempo of age-related, inevitable deterioration, don't worry, says the Democrat Public Relations firm called Politico.

Biden isn't super-old -- he's a super-ager. He just gets younger and smarter every year!

From the people who brought you Funemployment, now comes super-aging:

[C]oncerns about Biden’s age and mental fitness are likely overblown, according to experts on aging and the brain, as well as actuarial tables used by the insurance industry to estimate the health and longevity of customers.

The two brain aneurysms Biden suffered in 1988 were fully treated and he showed no signs of mental trouble as a result, said Dr. Neal Kassell, who performed the surgery on Biden three decades ago. Nor did Biden suffer any brain damage that could come back to haunt him in old age, Kassell said.

"He is every bit as sharp as he was 31 years ago. I haven't seen any change," Kassell said. I can tell you with absolute certainty that he had no brain damage, either from the hemorrhage or from the operations that he had. There was no damage whatsoever."

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For someone of Sanders' age and gender, the study pegs the chances of surviving a four-year term at 76.8 percent. The corresponding figures for the other candidates are Biden at 79.2 percent, Weld at 83.6 percent, Trump at 84.8 percent and Warren at 91.8 percent.

Olshansky said the older candidates could belong to a group of what are called "superagers," people who live into their 80s but show a mental sharpness as if they were in their 50s or 60s.

Emily Rogalski, a Northwestern University neuroscientist and associate psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor who specializes in studying superagers, said it’s exceedingly difficult to "determine someone’s cognitive abilities simply by knowing someone's chronological age."

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"It's difficult to comment specifically on any one individual's cognitive status without knowing more deeply about their medical history," she said.

Really? That surprises me. Because MSNBC hosts like Niccole Wallace and their guests do it literally every single week.

Terrorist-Linked Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib: Don't Blame Me For Partnering With a Terrorist-Friendly Organization to Agitate in "Palestine," Blame The Other Democrats Who Have Partnered With Them In the Past

—Ace of Spades

The group she and Ilhan Omar partnered with, Mitfah, has promoted the actual blood libel found in the antisemitic hoax "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" that Jews use the blood of Christian babies to bake their Passover bread.

And the terrorist-connected Tlaib couldn't wait to jump into bed with them.

Docratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib blamed senior members of her party after she and Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar faced backlash for partnering with a terror-linked group for their cancelled trip to Israel.

...

Palestinian-based organization Miftah, which has terror ties and in the past promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, was partially sponsoring the trip. Tlaib dodged responsibility for the partnership when asked about Miftah at the press conference.

"Our colleagues that are senior members, some of whom have served multiple terms, actually told us about the organization," said Tlaib, who broke down crying at another point in the press conference.

"We're not the ones who chose the organization," Tlaib added. "A U.S.-based sponsor organization chose it. But I think there we’re five members of Congress that actually went on a trip sponsored by the same organization."

Who was the US-based sponsor? Why won't she name them?

Five House Democrats attended a Miftah-sponsored trip to Israel in 2016: Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Dan Kildee of Michigan, Hank Johnson of Georgia, Matt Cartwright of Pennsylvania and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin. The five Democrats reportedly met with an alleged member of a Palestinian terrorist group during that trip.

Fine, they're also pro-terrorist.

Tlaib's chief of staff did not return an email inquiring which members pointed Tlaib and Omar to Miftah....

National Review writer David French described Tlaib and Omar’s partnership with Miftah as a "national scandal," noting that Miftah had re-published neo-Nazi content and "actually published blood libel, posting an article that accused 'the Jews [of using] the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover.'"

A word about the dual loyalty charge, below:

The Democrat Socialist (He/Him) Convention, With South Park Animation

—Ace of Spades

The New York Times' Dean Baquet Admits: When Our Russia Collusion Storyline Collapsed in a Pile of Failure and Mueller, We Just Juiced Up Our New White Supremacist Collusion Storyline

—Ace of Spades

Julie Kelly at American Greatness reports on the admission not heard 'round the media world.

Or at least -- heard, but then not reported.

Pivoting to the failed effort to prove that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians to sway the 2016 election, Dean Baquet confessed his news organization trafficked the collusion drug until it lost its potency.

"The day Bob Mueller walked off that witness stand, two things happened. Our readers who want Donald Trump to go away suddenly thought, 'Holy shit, Bob Mueller is not going to do it.' And Donald Trump got a little emboldened politically, I think," Baquet said during a "crisis town hall meeting" at the paper’s headquarters last week.

"And I think that the story changed," he added. "A lot of the stuff we're talking about started to emerge like six or seven weeks ago. We're a little tiny bit flat-footed. I mean, that's what happens when a story looks a certain way for two years. Right?"

Kelly analogizes the Times, and the media generally, as drug-dealers selling a cocktail of hatred and conspiracy, keeping its users dissociated from reality for a full three year Lost Weekend.

But now that the first cocktail has lost its potency, they've quickly cooked up a new one.

Then came the crash.

Not only did Team Mueller fail to find proof of collusion, the deified prosecutor turned in an abysmal performance before Congress last month. The daily supply of Russian collusion dope dried up, but Trump-hating addicts don't need rehab just yet: The Times is stocking up another toxic potion--white supremacy--to poison the body politic and cure any collusion withdrawal symptoms.

Folks like Baquet can only be held partially responsible: There is no supply if there's no demand. The Times' readers demand that their Trump-hating addiction is satisfied every day--the Times is just doing what any corner-hustling dealer would do to delay their customers' sobriety.

Read the whole thing. It's a good one.

Also, read the column she wrote on this subject -- cooking up the White Supremacy drug to replace the Russia Collusion drug -- last week, before Dean Baquet did her the favor of confirming everything she said.

Also note that she was one of the only people in conservative (or "conservative") media to call out the sudden fabrication of a new Moral Panic storyline when others in the "conservative" media, such as Rich Lowry and the National Review, were all too happy to agree with their leftist twitter pals and enjoy the Liberal Approval which they crave so much.

Sort of like another drug.

The Tears of Tliab

—Ace of Spades

The woman who pretended she wanted to see her "sity" and then said "How dare you condition my visit with my sity on my not meeting with terrorist-supporting groups" now has some new tears to sprinkle on the moist media.

This time, she's complaining that Israeli's attempt to stop the smuggling of Palestinian bombs into Israel was "dehumanizing."

So dehumanizing, in fact, that she cries about it, thinking about all those Israeli pizza shop diners who could have been murdered by one of her cousins' bombs.

Donald Trump took to twitter to express solidarity with this terrorist:

Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump

Sorry, I don't buy Rep. Tlaib's tears. I have watched her violence, craziness and, most importantly, WORDS, for far too long. Now tears? She hates Israel and all Jewish people. She is an anti-Semite. She and her 3 friends are the new face of the Democrat Party. Live with it!

Meanwhile, Terrorist Number One opined that Israel is not an ally because it excluded them from entering the country. As it excludes many terrorists.

Which is dehumanizing.

Omar said she and Tlaib were "being denied the right to see for ourselves the reality on the ground in the West Bank" and the ban was "nothing less than an attempt by an ally of the United States to suppress our ability to do our jobs as elected officials."

"We give Israel more than $3 million in aid every year," she said. "This is predicated on they're being an important ally in the region and the 'only democracy' in the Middle East," making air quotes with her fingers.

"But denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally, and denying millions of people freedom of movement or expression or self-determination is not consistent with being a democracy," she said.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

I heard a snippet of an interview of Charlie Kirk yesterday on The Dennis Prager radio show, and he spoke of a hidden reservoir of socialists in America, in particular on college campuses. Kirk is a bit of a firebrand and an opportunist, but he is also a fighter, for which I respect him. And I agree about the oozing pustule of socialism in this country. Of course the source of the current infection is academia, but there has always been a small vein of populism/socialism in America, often in otherwise idyllic areas (Iowa...what the hell is wrong with you?).

But this iteration, particularly the campus version, is a new breed, because by no stretch of the imagination is there any existential crisis of wealth disparity in America, which is the traditional argument for traditional socialism. In spite of the insane blatherings of Clamydia Harris and the insane old man from Vermont and Liawatha Warren, America is safe and rich. Hell, even our poor are fat and have flat-screen TVs and cars. As far as I can tell, the current argument is that market economics is a mean poo-poo head, and we should get rid of it so we can all have pet unicorns and free medical care and a guaranteed basic living minimum wage with abortions on tap and no guns and a benevolent central government that will wipe our asses because with Lesbian Poetry degrees none of us can do a damned thing for ourselves..

Kirk fears a Democrat nominee (he thinks it will be Warren) who can galvanize these people into a voting bloc, instead of what we would normally get, which is a split vote between the Greens and the dope-smoking pseudo-libertarians and the far-left wackadoodle candidates.

He thinks President Trump will win, but he is also not climbing on board the Trump-Wins-In-Landslide train. And I agree with him. A clever Democrat campaign will make it a closely contested election, and we are fooling ourselves if we expect the Democrat machine to concede anything.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Concert In The Egg
Hieronymus Bosch

The Morning Report - 8/20/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. The fallout over the aborted Rancida Taliban and Bro-Fo Omar Israel stunt is at the top of the heap this Tuesday. That includes both the less than surprising fact of both of the taqqiya twins' links to a known terror-linked organization (which they are taking the Sgt. Schultz defense on) and the Democrat Party seemingly trying to back away from an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic position that many besides these two and the other two stooges in "The Squad" are embracing.

The group in question, Miftah, along with verifiable ties to terrorism, is well known for spreading Julius Streicher level bilge about Jews and Israel along with the baseline position of wiping the Jewish state off the map. But poor Rancida claimed ignorance despite Miftah's sponsoring of the trip, and then threw fellow odious vermin like Luis Guttierez and Hank Guam-Tipper under the bus for a similar junket a few years back. Meanwhile, as some Democrats are desperate for these psychos to shut their mouths and lay low, Bro-Fo Omar just kept on opening her brother's and/or husband's penis receptacle to spew the same Jew-hatred while Toothy McBigTits appeared on some college pirate radio outlet going on about the heretofore-unknown phenomenon of "Jewish white supremacists" as well as the usual garbage about "occupation" and so on. As if that wasn't enough, they promoted the work of a hideous anti-Semitic cartoonist on Instagram (funny how that's allowed but pro-life groups and conservatives are banned).

The Dems may indeed be desperate for them to shut their mouths but it doesn't excuse their silence about these four and Miftah, among other things. In fact their silence is a tell, although in reality, the Joo-hatred goes back at least 20 years or more. It's just the eruptions into the open air being just another indicator of the internecine struggle between the Left hand and the Far Left hand for control of the whole shooting match. Meh, bring it on. Just like all the other Democrat-Leftist madness of the past three years, the more it's out in the open for all the world to see, the more it will repulse the general public. Inshalla.

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM
• Bro-Fo Omar Claims Israel Not a "Democracy" or "Ally," Lies About Israel Trip
• In Advancing BDS, Bro-Fo and Rancida Are Waging War against Israel
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC's Concern About Jewish "White Supremacists" (so, a white sheet mit zwei pair pants? - jjs)
• Lord: House Democrats Silent on Bro-Fo, Rancida Ties to Miftah
• Rancida Taliban Blames "Senior" Democrats After Partnership With Terror-Linked Group Draws Backlash
• Greenfield: What American Jews Don't Understand About BDS

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION, BORDER SECURITY

  To the border we go where the open defiance of this administration and the rule of law is on display in New York and Maryland, where cops are refusing to cooperate with ICE in nabbing border jumpers and sanctuary city madness lets a rapist roam freely. Also, while the Mississippi mass roundup is great news, the impact would've been even greater had the bosses of the businesses been cuffed and frog marched to the paddy wagons too. Plus, we have another shining example from the spark-of-humanity files, and Lindsay Graham is pimping his immigration bill. Should we be concerned? Lastly, good news from Texas just goes to show what happens when you enforce the damn laws.

• Sanctuary in the Big Apple: Every ICE Detainer Request Ignored By NYPD
  
• ICE Says Maryland Sanctuary County Lets Illegal Alien Alleged Rapist Go Free Despite Immigration Detainer
  
• Mississippi ICE Raids: No Employers Charged Yet for Hiring Illegal Aliens (that is a major part of the equation - jjs)
  
• Illegal Alien Animal Convicted of Sexually Abusing 7-Year-Old, Has 3 DUIs, Reentered US and Lived Near Nursery School
  
• Lindsay Graham: "If I Were Mitch McConnell, I Would Make Every Democrat Vote on My (Immigration) Bill" (what's in it? - jjs)
  
• The Magic Power of Enforcement? Texas Border Crossings Cut in Half

  CIVILWAR 2.0

  As stated.

• Anti-Cop Rhetoric Is Putting Police Officers In Danger

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

  Peter Schweizer with a not really surprising bit of news about Joey Bidet's failed spawn.

• Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden Helped China Buy Our "National Security" Assets

  JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S DEATH

  AG Barr fires federal prison honcho over Jeffrey Epstein's death. Also, Jeffrey Epstein is still dead.

• Following Epstein's Death, AG Barr Removes Acting Director Of Bureau Of Prisons

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION

  Wife of Steve Stockman pens damning piece on the dangers of political persecution and federal judge orders deeper probing of Christopher Steele.

• Congressman Stockman's Case is a Dark Omen of Political Repression To Come
  
• Federal Judge Orders FBI to Search for More Christopher Steele Docs

  POLITICS

  Even Zogby, not known for being on the up and up, now has Trump beating Dems' top 2020 contenders, Jill Biden throws her husband under the bus in a cringe-worthy interview, Kamala-Toe prefers greenbacks over greens, lots of GOP challengers hope to beat Toothy McBigTits, about that controversy on workers being forced to attend a Trump rally, Cory Booker tells flaming whopper, Sta-Puft Marshmallow Girl Gillibrand can't believe her uncles voted for Trump; meh, they can't believe their sister spawned her. Also, Fauxca-Has-Been's Indian jive goes down like a lead crab salad, Margot Cleveland not too thrilled with the Grahaminator and two essays on the so-called elites as well as the Trump wakeup call to America.

• Zogby Poll: Trump Leads in 2020 Matchup Against Top Democrat Candidates
  
• Jill Biden: You May Like Another Candidate Better, But You Have to Beat Trump, and "Maybe You Have to Swallow a Little Bit"
  
• Kamala-Toe Harris Bows Out of Climate Debate to Fundraise With Top Donors
  
• Republicans Lining Up to Run Against Chiquita Khruschev AOC
  
• Workers Throw Hissy Fit Over Being "Forced" to Attend Trump Rally... While Being Paid Time and a Half
  
• Severely Stupid Booker: "Right-Wing Extremists... Behind the Majority of Terrorist Attacks in This Country Since 9/11"
  
• On Guns, Mueller, and Congress, Nillsbury Dough-Girl Gillibrand Has No Idea What She's Talking About
  
• Gillibrand Can't Believe She Has Uncles Who Voted for Trump (what do you think they say about you, Puffy? - jjs)
  
• "I Have Made Mistakes": Fauxca-Has-Been Apologizes at Native American Forum
  
• Please Clap: Native American Forum Moderator After Subdued Reaction to Fauxca-Has-Been
  
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC, Rancida Taliban, and Bro-Fo Omar Are Dominating the Democrat Party
  
• Cleveland: Dear Lindsey Graham - Be a Man, Not a Meme
  
• What the Elites Think Americans "Need" Has Nothing to Do with Individual Rights
  
• Trump Slapped the Country Awake, But His Opponents Still Sleep

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH

  Several links about The New York Times now openly pimping the rewriting of American history to both beat Trump in 2020 as well as help brainwash subsequent generations going forward. Limbaugh was all over this yesterday and it's well worth a listen. Michael Savage goes off on being banned by the UK in light of Bro-Fo and Rancida's Israel stunt, Peter Beinart is a Jew-hating scumbag, Trump throws out red meat about Google attempting to throw the 2016 election, CNN does a self-own in attacking Ken Cuccinelli, pervert Mark Halperin's new book draws ire of women, Sarsour the Hamas Louse slams Fake Jake Tapper and the bodyguard bloated blivet April Ryan is charged with assault for tossing a journalist from where his tubby charge was speaking.

• Dean Baquet Kills the New York Times
  
• Related: "A Masterpiece" - Kamala-Toe Harris Praises NY Times' Anti-American Screed
  
• The New York Times is the Trump-Hate Drug Kingpin
  
• Michael Savage Slams Media Silence over His UK Ban Amid Bro-Fo, Rancida Uproar
  
• CNN Panelist Peter Beinart Blows Up When Confronted Over Palestinian Terrorism
  
• Trump: Google "Should Be Sued" for Manipulating "From 2.6 Million to 16 Million Votes for Hillary"
  
• Former Google Chair Eric Schmidt's Data Firm on Payroll of Top Dem Presidential Campaigns
  
• Former Google Engineer: How Google Discriminates Against Conservatives
  
• CNN Attack On Ken Cuccinelli Leaves Out Fact That His Previous Employer Was... CNN
  
• Mark Halperin's Accusers Lash Out Over His New Book: "Appalling and So Upsetting"
  
• "I Am Sick of Jake Tapper's Shit": Sarsour the Hamas Louse Calls Out CNN Host
  
• Bodyguard for CNN Propagandist April Ryan Charged With Assault for Forcibly Removing Journalist From Event

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  As stated.

• Democrats' Gun-Policy Plans, Explained (ultimately disarm Americans - jjs)

  ABORTION

  A $3 million Nelson Muntz laugh.

• Planned Parenthood Whistleblower Awarded $3 Million From Arizona Court

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  Speculation on the severity of that Russian nuke explosion, Hong Kong protesters go all in, how the US can support the protestors without starting a war, Paul Kengor not a fan of PDT's foreign policy vis a vis the firing of one of his supporters from the State Department, and proof the Left is deranged and has zero sense of humor.

• Is Russia Hiding Another Chernobyl?
  
• "It's All for Our Kids": Hong Kong's Protesters Double Down on Demands for Freedom
  
• How The United States Can Support Self-Rule In Hong Kong Without Starting a War
  
• President Trump's Foreign Policy Fiasco
  
• Trump Tweets Hilarious Meme Of Greenland, Leftists Explode

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  So much for the INF treaty.

• US Tests First Ground-Launched Cruise Missile Since INF Withdrawal

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

  Funny how Toothy McBigTits, Bro-Fo and Rancida don't talk too much about this.
  

• Palestinian Authority Bans LGBTQ Community from Holding Events

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION

  Cut the fat indeed and a look at housing policy vis a vis Greenland.

• Desert Survival Courses in Egypt? Trump Administration Eyes Wasteful Foreign Aid Programs for Budget Cuts
  
• Learning from Greenland

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  Despite the attempted sabotage by Wall Street's globalists and the propagandists in the media, the economy is solid as a rock and looks to be even after the 2020 election. More sabotage a year from now notwithstanding.

• White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow: "I Sure Don't See a Recession"
  
• White House Trade Director Peter Navarro Predicts a "Bullish Cycle Going Through 2020 and Beyond"
  
• Cool the Recession Talk

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Police thwart three potentially bloody mass shootings, which will not be covered by the media since they did not happen. More importantly, the number of crime and deaths prevented by legal gun owners is greater by orders of magnitude than all the El Pasos and Daytons combined and sadly, all the black-on-black shooting victims as well. Also, the officer involved with Eric Garner's death gets fired for essentially doing his job. Never noted is the fact that Eric Garner would still be alive if a) he did not resist arrest and b) did not engage in criminal activity in the first place. But that's racist to mention it. Meanwhile, Bill De Bolshevik reveals his true nature in response to the cop union blasting the firing. Also, Cal State administrator stabbed to death on campus and Bernardo Sandersnista's crime plan is as insane as you'd imagine.

• Police Stopped What Could Have Been 3 Mass Shootings in a Single Weekend Across the Country (non-story, no bloodshed - jjs)
  
• New York City Fires Police Officer Who Killed Eric Garner
  
• The Eric Garner Case: Another Cop Fired for Doing His Job
  
• De Bolshevik Blasts "Reprehensible" NYPD Union Over Response to Pantaleo Firing
  
• Former Administrator Stabbed To Death On Cal State Campus
  
• Bernardo Plans Jailbreak: Sandersnista Releases Insane Criminal Justice Plan That Cuffs Cops, Mass-Releases Felons

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  Well past time to decertify California statehood and dissolve its government.

• California's Ethnic Indoctrination Would Dump the Melting Pot

  HEALTHCARE

  At least Bernie tells the truth, Kamala-Toe flip-flops on Medicare for All and LA goes medieval.

• Bernardo Sandersnista Tells Union Worker: I'd "Absolutely" Take Away Your Health Care Plan
• Flashback: Kamala-Toe Harris Loved Bernie's Medicare for All Act; Now Not "Comfortable" With It (comfortable, like Coonman Northam? - jjs)
  
• Medieval Diseases Are Present In Los Angeles

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  All of a sudden, Jay-Z's a sellout and Christian Toto warns the Dems to listen to Bill Maher vis a vis BDS and Joo-hate. Meh, they won't.

• NFL's Reid Unloads On Jay-Z For "Money Deal" Behind Kaepernick's Back; Kaepernick Weighs In
  
• Toto: The Left Must Listen to Bill Maher... Before It's Too Late

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

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/19/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

She's an assistant professor with the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences.

"It was not the same as it was in Colorado, circa 2013, when there were products labeled to look like candy wrappers," "Nonetheless, even despite opaque and tamper-proof and child-proof packaging requirements, we still saw little kids getting into the products and having some bad experiences." Jennifer Whitehill

Quote II

"I really believe that some of these politicians don’t actually believe in public schools." Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready (N.C.)

Quote III

Donald Trump and the Republican Party hate America: It's time to say it
For all they blather on about patriotism, the unctuous Republicans are the ones who really despise their country David Masciotra

Quote IV

“In all honesty, I never even imagined myself becoming a mother. My teen years and early 20s were spent just trying to get my act together. I had an anxiety disorder, depression and was married and divorced from my first husband by the time I was 23 years old.”
“Before I met my husband, I dated a bunch of not-nice guys. I peppered in a few nice guys here and there, but I think I was so insecure and unhappy at that time that I either drove those good guys away or grew bored of their niceness.”Joanna Schroeder

Quote V

“Now before I go any further, I want to say this. Like anyone who’s been honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes. I am very sorry for harm I have caused,” Warren remarked during the event. “I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations that we’ve had together.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

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It is a good thing China didn't call the Hong Kong protesters "Retarded" otherwise they would have been banned. Twitter is in the pocket of the China Commies.

Twitter has been allowing promoted tweets—essentially targeted ads— to be placed by China's state media, attacking pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and blaming those campaigners for the escalating violence and civil unrest.

The use of social media to peddle political and electoral interference is not new—it is a major theme of the backlash against social media. Usually, though, it is more subtle and cleverly orchestrated than the blunt promoted tweets that China's state media has been paying Twitter to publish.

UPDATE

Twitter to change their evil ways on State Tweets

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Fredo, Fredo, Fredo, Fredo, Fredo, Fredo. LOLGF'd

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The latest from Paul Joseph Watson, NSFW-Language

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Pass the popcorn please. Two despicable assholes are fighting.

It’s happening, and it’s glorious: the Left is turning on its own as Democrats continue to veer to the far-left amid an escalating civil war.

In the latest salvo, anti-Semitic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib called for a boycott of left-wing comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show because he criticized her anti-Israel rhetoric. (Maher was once Libertarian, but has since devolved.)

The brouhaha erupted after Maher said that Tlaib’s past comments like “Jews control the world, control the money” is why Israel was reluctant to allow Tlaib to visit.

An angry Tlaib reacted by saying “maybe folks should boycott his show.”

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Our country is too populated for a one size fits all single payer health care. Of course the working man will suffer not Sen. Bernie Sanders, (Communist-Vermont)

Sanders: “I want to be frank I don’t want to…oh I guess the guy could tell me why I’m crazy. All right, there’s a Cubs fan…”

Audience member: “Wouldn’t the Medicare health care plan … wouldn’t that take away our right to bargain for our — our medical benefits?”

Sanders: “Yeah, absolutely it would. It’s not a bad thing.”

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Just another reason to buy Greenland.

And always remember that in Greenland, English is a strong second language as in “For English press 2.”

Finally, if the globe heats up as we are always being warned it will (“Any day/week/month/year now”), then we’ve got some fine fine farmland and retirement condo space at very affordable prices. In addition, besides having a lot of rare earths and other precious metals ready for extraction, Greenland is also looking at developing a hydrothermal power system. That is so very, very alternative fuelish that one might look at buying Greenland as Trump’s much more sensible “New Green Deal.”

And never forget, the other candidate for 51st state is Puerto Rico.

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The road to hell is paved with photovoltaic panels.

Three years later, even the most optimistic supporters have deemed the Wattway a failure.

The Wattway consists of 2,800 photovoltaic panels lining one kilometer (0.62 miles) on the way to the small northern town of Tourouvre-au-Perch in Normandy. At the time of its opening its builder, the construction group Colas, part of telecoms group Bouygues, said that the solar panels were covered with a resin containing silicon, strong enough to fend off traffic even from 18-wheelers.

"The engineers of this project surely did not think about the tractors that would roll over," Pascal and Eric, two local roofers leaning on the counter of the Café de Paris, Tourouvre-au-Perche, told the French newspaper Le Monde in 2019. While the resin coating might be strong enough to keep a big rig from crushing the solar panels, the two said that driving over it generates so much noise that locals required the road's speed limit to be lowered to 70 km/h, or a paltry 43 mph.

Leave it to the French.

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Minneapolis puts the kibosh on drive-thrus. Vehicle emissions, noise and safety are the reasons why.

Bad news for lazy people who like their fast food on the go (and influencers looking for a clickbait title for their supercar video) as the days of drive-thrus are numbered.

At least in Minneapolis, anyway. The city has banned the building of drive-thru windows in order to reduce emissions, noise and pedestrian accidents. They specifically state vehicle emissions will be reduced, but no doubt human flatulence inside cars will also fall given this new ruling. Either way, this could be the first roll of the snowball that could see drive-thrus being a thing of the past.

Current businesses are safe, so they say.

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Is John Brennan the mastermind of the Russian Hoax? And is he facing criminal charges?

All research indicates CIA Director John Brennan enlisted the help of U.S. and foreign intelligence assets to run operations against the Trump campaign early in 2016. The objective was to give the false and manufactured appearance of compromise. Once the CIA established the possibility of compromise, that activity created the EC which opened the door for an FBI investigation.

The operation run by Brennan targeting Papadopoulos is at the center of the two-page “EC” (electronic communication); given to FBI Director James Comey to start the counterintelligence operation (Crossfire Hurricane) against the Trump campaign.

Two of the intelligence assets Brennan organized were Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

On this day: 19 Aug 1939
Ginger Baker, drummer with Cream who had the 1966 UK No.11 single 'I Feel Free'. Baker was also a member of the Graham Bond Organisation, Blind Faith, and Ginger Bakers Airforce and is also known for his numerous associations with World music, mainly the use of African influences. He has also had other collaborations such as with Gary Moore, Hawkwind and Public Image Ltd. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Cream not your thing? A little mellow music...............

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Love the neighbor. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

"EVERYONE.

This man came into my yard a couple hours ago and offered to cut my grass for a certain price.

I didn't have enough money today to afford that on top of everything else, and I tod him to come back in a week.

A few minutes ago I hear a loud noise outside of my house.

I opened the door, and noticed that he was cutting my grass.

I went running out to him and yelled for him to stop... he shook his head no.

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 8-18-2019

Top 10 commenters:
1 [498 comments] 'garrett' [69.92 posts/day]
2 [482 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, A Swedish Fish'
3 [386 comments] 't-bird'
4 [363 comments] 'qdpsteve'
5 [356 comments] 'Skip '
6 [320 comments] 'JoeF.'
7 [314 comments] 'Insomniac'
8 [304 comments] 'Bandersnatch'
9 [301 comments] 'Yudhishthira's Dice'
10 [299 comments] 'Village Idiot's Apprentice'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [170 names] 'Miklos, but what do I know' [23.87 unique names/day]
2 [54 names] 'Hands'
3 [46 names] 'Imitation Commentater'
4 [44 names] 'Rockery Hudpeck'
5 [41 names] 'Axeman'
6 [35 names] 'davidt'
7 [33 names] 'Adirondack Patriot'
8 [33 names] 'Notorious BFD'
9 [31 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
10 [28 names] 'HA'
Honorable Mention:
14 [26 names] 'ace'

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Not only is this woman, hot, hot, hot. She's a Genius Award Winner.

A New Jersey woman set fire to a man’s home after accepting a booty call invitation only to discover when she arrived that he had fallen asleep, police charge.

According to cops, Taija Russell, 29, torched the victim’s home around 4 AM on August 4. Russell was arrested this week on several felony charges, including attempted homicide, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault.

Investigators say that when Russell (seen above) arrived at the residence, the snoozing man did not hear her at the front door. He also did not respond to series of text messages sent by Russell.

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Close it up

Elizabeth Warren to Actual Indians: I'm Like Sorry or Whatever I Claimed to be an Indian Everytime I Was Applying for a Job or Running for Senate

—Ace of Spades

Actually she didn't say that; she should have said that.

What she offered was a calculatedly vague non-apology:

"Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made mistakes," the Massachusetts senator said at a forum on Native American issues in this pivotal early voting state. "I am sorry for the harm I have caused."

This outgassing of calculated haze and obscurity provides three benefits for her:

1, it permits her to claim she apologized, but

2, it offers no specific admissions of definite actions or intent which could be used against her in the upcoming months, and

3, it is the predicate for a Hillary Clinton Special -- claiming "these questions have all been raised and answered" when in fact exactly none of these questions were ever answered.

She has never asked her schools to open up her files and reveal whether she used her claimed Indian heritage for advancement, or whether such claimed heritage was ever a factor in her advancement.

Monday's remarks were an effort to move past the fallout from her past claims of tribal ancestry, which culminated in a widely criticized release of a DNA analysis last year...

Now that Warren is gaining in most polls, she's trying to prove to voters that the controversy won't doom her in a general election matchup against Trump. The detailed policy agenda to help Native Americans that she released last week helped her secure a warm reception from attendees at the tribal forum.

After drawing a standing ovation, Warren said "I have listened and I have learned a lot" from conversations with Native Americans in recent months, describing herself as "grateful" for the dialogue.

Oh -- like Hillary Clinton's "Listening Tour," after which she declared all questions you have about my corruption have been answered.

...

She did not receive any questions about her own background.

...

As of Monday, her campaign website’s page containing a video and other materials Warren had released on the DNA analysis was no longer active.

She isn't resigning the Senate seat she won partly on the basis of claiming to be partly Cherokee and partly Delaware:

Former "Republican" Turned MSNBC Propagandist Nicolle Wallace: Trump Might Be Removed Via the 25th Amendment for the Alzheimer's We're Going to Conspiracy-Theorize Into Reality

—Ace of Spades

Your weekly reminder that this cadre of determined Wine Mom liberals used to completely dominate the Republican Party and the "conservative" media, and still 75% dominates it.

Remember, this is the woman whose job it was to guide Sarah Palin through the 2008 election, but set her up without preparation for an interview with her pal Katie Couric.

Also, for some reason, there were lots and lots of leaks coming out of the few people who worked with Sarah Palin, and for some reason, the tell-all book Game Change depicted Niccole Wallace as a hero.

I wonder why.

A few weeks ago, Niccolle Wallace -- one of the smart, respectable people in the GOP until The GOP Left Her -- stated that Donald Trump had called for the "extermination" of Latinos.

"President Obama used the power of the presidency to try to pass comprehensive immigration reform, with the Latino community, Latino leaders, at the table. You now have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating Latinos," she continued.

She retracted this claim, but not on tv, just on Twitter.

She learned that from Jake Tapper.

Now this dim-bulb backstabbing social-climbing conspiracy theorist uncorks a fetid new conspiracy theory: Trump may have already been given a neurological exam to determine the extent of his Alzheimer's.

JOYCE VANCE: You know there's pervasive reporting in this regard and if it was grandpa you would probably take him to see a neurologist or someone who specialized in geriatric medicine. That hasn't hasn't happened here...

WALLACE: That we know of...

Rich Lowry won't be demanding the deplatforming of his liberal friends, though.