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July 06, 2020

Joe Biden: Senile And Feeble-minded And Hard-left

—CBD

For whatever deeply idiotic reason, there is a benign image of Joe Biden that the ignorant embrace; he is a kind and wise leader who is always willing to reach across the aisle. Is it his nice hair and kind-but-vacant eyes? Is it that he is carefully kept from actually articulating his positions?

The Radical Joe Biden

The conventional wisdom right now is that Joe Biden is semi-senile, and that his choice of a vice president is all-important as it is likely this person (almost certainly a black female) will become president at some early point in the next few years if Biden wins in November. This conventional wisdom may be narrowly accurate, but ultimately wrong. Why?

First, there is an imperceptible difference between a senile Biden and a feeble-minded Joe Biden. Let’s face it, Biden has been feeble-minded since he entered national politics almost 50 years ago. What is decisive is that even if he isn’t trending toward senility, he has already sold out to the far left of the Democratic Party, and has signaled his intent to implement a far-left agenda if he wins.

That's the thing...his positions are Obama's with a heartland twist. Nothing more than the progressive cant that we have been fighting since Woodrow Wilson.

At least the Democrats are out of clean and articulate Black spokesmen....they are stuck with Gropin' Joe!

Posted by CBD at 07:15 PM Comments

Open Thread

—Ace

Posted by Ace at 06:41 PM Comments

Kayleigh McEnany: I'm Stunned. I Was Asked 12 Questions About the Confederate Flag, and Not a Single Question About People Being Killed Due to the Riots

—Ace

The enemy of the people doesn't care about people, it turns out.

Posted by Ace at 05:16 PM Comments

Boy Was Trump's Speech "Dark," Huh?

—Ace

Meanwhile: The left has made America the Road Warrior.

What would you do in this situation? pic.twitter.com/IKb4Q7iuup
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 6, 2020

Posted by Ace at 04:06 PM Comments

lol

—Ace

They name teams out of STRENGTH, not weakness, but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be changing their names in order to be politically correct. Indians, like Elizabeth Warren, must be very angry right now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 6, 2020

Posted by Ace at 02:55 PM Comments

Holy Shit Is S.E. Cupp a Stupid Bint

—Ace

I think I vomited in other people’s mouths. https://t.co/HwtqbbGl5p
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) July 5, 2020

Derek Hunter talks about her in his podcast, starting at just about 15:00 exactly.

Derek Hunter tells there a story about SE Cupp. She was disappointed she wasn't being given a Fox contract, so she announced she would work for a Think Tank, because she was An Intellectual of Renown.

Seriously.

Posted by Ace at 01:54 PM Comments

Open Thread

—Ace

Sorry, I'm sick as a dog again.

Posted by Ace at 01:10 PM Comments

Mostly Peaceful BLM Protesters Shoot and Kill an 8 Year Old Girl

—Ace

Filled with idealism.

There have been ongoing protests near the Wendy's restaurant in the aftermath of the death of Brooks and George Floyd, who was killed by police in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.
"Enough is enough," Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a Sunday news conference.

"You shot and killed a baby. And there wasn't just one shooter, there were at least two shooters," Bottoms said. "If you want to be part of a solution and not the problem, you need to clear out the area."

The shooting occurred near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot during a struggle with police last month. Brooks’ death escalated protests that had already been ongoing since the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody May 25.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms said during a press conference on the shooting that it’s time for people to “clear out of that area” where Rayshard Brooks was shot.

“This discussion, this mediation, and … it’s over. At a point where an 8-year-old baby is killed, the discussions have ended.”

Posted by Ace at 12:00 PM Comments

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

Progressives have the memory of mayflies. They're all like:

Progs: OK, we're going to have a new rule that says X.

Cons: Uh, it wasn't that long ago that you said you wanted a rule that said the exact opposite.

Progs: ( *pause* )

Progs: No, we didn't.

Cons: Yes, you did. See right here: ( *proffers indisputable evidence* )

Progs: ( *pause* )

Progs: But this situation is totally different.

Cons: You just want a different rule because it's to your advantage.

Progs: ( *pause* )

Progs: You're a white supremacist.

Of course, sudden and opportunistic rule changes are just one aspect of progressives' miniscule attention span. We also get sudden and opportunistic rewrites of history like this:

It’s sad that before Trump, both left and right got along (for the most part).
Since Trump, he’s purposely driven a wedge between us that may be too deep to pull out. That’s the strategy.
Divide and conquer.
It wouldn’t have happen without Barr and McConnell. #indictments
— Keeeeth (@blisterchicken) July 5, 2020

So national politics was all skittles and rainbow unicorn farts before Trump. Right.

I'm old enough to remember when George Bush was called Hitler by the left

I'm old enough to remember when Dick Cheney was called Hitler by the left (well, Himmler, but that's pretty much the same thing)

I'm old enough to remember when Mitt Romney (Milquetoast Mitt!) was called Hitler by the left

I'm old enough to remember when John McCain was called Hitler by the left

I'm old enough to remember when Sarah Palin was called Hitlerby the left.

Heck, even Bob Freaking Dole was called Hitler by the left. The internet isn't turning up any clever pics or memes, but I'm old enough to remember.

And of course, I'm old enough to remember when Richard Nixon was called Hitler by the left.

(Good retrospective of this phenomenon here.)

So this looks like it's going to turn into a 2020 campaign theme for the Democrats. That is, everything was great until the divisive Trump came along and dragged us all down to hell, we can go back to the status quo ante by getting rid of Trump. And this lame tweet was in response to another lame tweet by fake conservative uber-grifter Bill Kristol, so you know the NeverTrumpers are going to be solidly behind this, too.

But the reason it's so noisy is that we finally have a leader on our side who actually fights. And part of being a good fighter is knowing exactly who and what the enemy is and not being afraid to call them out publicly. And this includes refusing to go along with the pretense that the media is just sitting there on the sidelines refereeing the game when they're actually blocking and tackling for the other side.

The point is, the howling SJW mobs didn't start with Trump. They just got a lot louder.

And when they call for peace, peace, when there is no peace, the meaning of peace is actually different for each side. For their side, it'll be the peace of victory, for us, it's the peace of servitude.

Posted by OregonMuse at 11:13 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Miraculous Draught Of Fishes
Jacopo Bassano

Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM Comments

The Morning Report - 7/6/20

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. Hope you all had an enjoyable Fourth of July, the present troubles notwithstanding. On a very positive note, President Trump gave arguably his best, if not the most crucial speech of his presidency so far. With Mount Rushmore as the backdrop, he was figuratively as well as literally on the front lines of what has now devolved into a civil war for the heart, soul and future of this nation. Except it's not really a civil war but more of a hijacking of the nation, since only one side is advancing that aim by engaging in violence, intimidation and propaganda, with essentially zero pushback - Donald J. Trump and all of his standing with him being the exception.

... For this America, stunned by the senseless violence which pours salt in the wounds of [Chinese] COVID-19 and a shattered economy, the president's speech was just what the doctor ordered.
He paid homage to the "56 patriots" who gathered in Philadelphia in 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence, which "enshrined a divine truth that... all men are created equal."

He even dared to say America was "founded on Judeo-Christian principles" with the family "the bedrock of American life," where "every child, of every color -- born and unborn -- is made in the holy image of G-d."

And in his forthright way, he fingered a "new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language... recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished."

"It's not going to happen to us..."

Boom. No other President or politician allegedly on our side in my lifetime ever dared to directly indict and damn the Democrat Party and the Leftist-Progressive-Globalist agenda for their record of pain, misery and destruction and for warning about the consequences should they succeed. Not even the great Ronald Reagan. Actually, Donald Trump just declared the Democrat Party and the totalitarian thugs in it and supporting it to be an "evil empire." It's not hyperbole either. His speech was as factual an indictment of what they have done and intend to do and he essentially laid down the marker of what amounts to "over my dead body."

And then, there was the response from Joe Biden, or more likely Valerie Jarrett through the frothing, spittle flecked maw of Biden, who delivered 90 seconds of bilge appropriately enough a few feet from his basement sump pump:

... With this video, Biden has irreversibly thrown in his lot with the "America is racist" crowd. He started off bashing Thomas Jefferson -- who, not coincidentally, is one of the men depicted on Mount Rushmore and the principal author of the document for which we celebrate American Independence.
He then proceeded to declare that America is plagued by fundamental and "systemic racism," and declared the political canonization of the new patron saint of race-baiters, the martyr George Floyd. Rather than memorialize past presidents or true civil rights leaders, Biden saw fit to move our heroes to the back of the proverbial bus so that he could elevate Floyd above them in status...

... Biden himself helped to make the case for the incumbent president by being very clear about his plans to fully accommodate the vile anti-American forces on the rise in our country.

Just as President Trump vowed to protect American history, Joe Biden seeks to rewrite it in a way that would put even Orwell to shame...

... Although talk of a possible second civil war in our country is often breathless and exaggerated, it's fitting in the context of the 2020 election. Throughout most of our history, both parties have maintained that they love America, but simply have different ideas about how to improve it.
Now it is beyond clear, as articulated by both candidates, that only one party truly loves our country, while the other is ashamed of it. One party is campaigning on building on the past to create an even more glorious future, while the other seeks to tear down what we have already built so that we can start from scratch. Not since the election of 1860 has there been such a complete polarization between the two rival factions in American politics.

This election, put simply, is the first election since the Civil War to be about one thing and one thing alone: the grateful versus the ungrateful. There is no nuance anymore, nor is there any illusion of civility. One side loves America, while the other side loathes it and wants to replace it with something unrecognizable to our heritage...

Bingo. After this speech, I am much more confident that, barring anything unforeseen between now and November 3rd (both a blink of an eye and an eternity in politics), as well as the potential for election fraud on a massive scale now thanks to mail-in voting, Trump will win a second term. The only fly in that ointment is will the GOP retain the Senate let alone retake the House? The conventional wisdom states that unlike midterms, general elections tend to favor the incumbent and, the economic destruction brought about by the phony pandemic as well as the violence and mayhem of the past month aside, Trump should have some coattails that the party can ride in on. Albeit, not nearly as long as they might have been at the beginning of the year. That said, there are at least four hardcore anti-Trump Senators as well as organized pseudo-conservative establishmentarians overtly or barely covertly working to destroy his chances. And on the most crucial, unambiguous threat this nation has ever faced, instead of standing shoulder to shoulder with Trump and the American people, the GOP-e is pulling out all the stops to serve up the corpse of the Constitution on a silver platter to the Marxists. Thank you and fuck you Ron Johnson, Jim Lankford, Mike Braun and everyone of your ilk who are worse than useless. For fuck's sake, if this is what passes for opposition, my advice for the GOP is don't just do something; sit there.

Meanwhile, BLM - as in Burn Loot Murder - are drawing the ire of a lot of Black lives who supposedly matter, but mostly as political and physical cannon fodder for the movement. Even leftist Democrat Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms calls them out for the shooting death of an 8-year-old child. Along with the tearing down of monuments, the burning of the American flag and using it as a doormat on July 4th, the continued rioting and mayhem in Portland and elsewhere, and the media-embargoed wave of shootings in NYC, Chicago and elsewhere where police departments have been under the gun - forget the media, forget the Democrats; this is not playing well across a wide swathe of the nation.

With the election, as I stated, either a blink of an eye or an eternity away, the question is will all of this be forgotten by then?

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

"The protesters started off Independence Day by dancing and stepping on an American flag at Black Lives Matter Plaza, chanting 'fuck the Fourth of July and fuck the American flag.'"
Black Lives Matter Totally Shuts Down Nation's Capital On Independence Day
"One, two, three, four! Slavery, genocide, and war! Five, six, seven, eight! America was never great!"
Communists Organize Flag Burnings In Some Major Cities, Including Outside White House
"Per the department's official social media accounts, Portland police were so consumed with containing the destruction that they were unable to respond to anything other than emergency calls."
Riots Explode In Portland Overnight, Protesters Target Police Headquarters, Jails, Courthouse
"To save the cities from themselves, or to let them fry in their own blue elixirs?"
Trump's Choice, and the Conflicting Voices from the Right
"The situation in which a black man is charged for the death of a white woman demonstrating for Black Lives Matter has sent millions of people to the Woke Version of Political Rock Paper Scissors."
Cops Re-Thinking Protest Rules After Car Driven by Black Man Kills White Seattle BLM Freeway Blocker
"The entire world is saying, 'Black Lives Matter.'"
BLM Co-Founder: "It is a Watershed Moment."
"The corpses are already piling up."
BLM's Violence & the Death of America's Cities
If I were Zombie Hitler, I'd sue this broad for plagiarism.
Black Lives Matter Leader: We Could "Wipe Out" White Folks, They're "Genetic Defects"

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force. We've had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks."
Father of 8-Year-Old Killed Near Atlanta Wendy's: "They Say Black Lives Matter. You Killed Your Own."
"Studies on right-wing terrorism are fake -- they are nothing but propaganda."
How the Left Creates Fake Studies to Fabricate "Right-Wing" Terrorism
"Tucker Carlson is right -- and the junior Senator from Indiana should pull his bill."
Senator Mike Braun's Qualified Immunity Bill Is an Affront to Conservatives
"African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments."
Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police
My kind of town...
At Least 70 Shot, 14 Dead by Sunday Night Over July 4th Weekend in Chicago

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"But we're all supposed to die! According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of deaths from the Wuhan virus had declined so much that the agency is on the verge of calling the epidemic over."
Chinese COVID-19 Update: CDC Says Virus Close to Losing Epidemic Status
"The [Chinese] coronavirus panic was starting to ebb after the successful state re-openings of May and enthusiastic public protests of June. Rather than acknowledging this good news story, the same lunatics are clamoring to tighten the screws again."
A Second Wave of Stupidity
"Some of those who received hydroxychloroquine before acute symptoms began were much less likely to die from the virus, according to researchers at Henry Ford Health System in Michigan."
Experimental Drug Trump Frequently Touts Helped Chinese COVID-19 Patients Survive, Study Claims
"As scientists indicate that the mutation fails to make the virus more deadly, the press complains that people are losing their fear of the pathogen."
Study: Mutation Causes Chinese Coronavirus Strain in US, Europe to be 10 Times More Infectious Than Original Form
"Its obvious implausibility immediately directs the reader to consider the underlying allegation, which is that pneumonia deaths are being deliberately understated in order for the Centers for Disease Control to reclassify them as [Chinese] COVID-19 deaths, thus fanning public panic."
Chinese COVID-19 Did Not "Cure Pneumonia"
"Progressives' faithful devotion to socialist-style 'psychiatric' disposal of political dissidents."
The Left's Soviet Insane Asylum for Non-Mask Wearers
Dr. Joondeph: "All about making President Trump a one-term president."
Chinese COVID Cheerleaders Change the Rules in the Middle of the Game
"Irish democracy rolls into lockdown California."
After Calling for No Fireworks for California's 4th of July, Gavin Noose-'em Was In for a Surprsie
"The ask from Phillip was simple: I will watch from the parking lot with my wife and our four children if we must, but please let my sister-in-law, her family, and my parents bury my brother."
Family Wins Fight With Chinese Coronavirus Bureaucracy To Bury An American War Hero
"Fortunately, we've already been conditioned to comply with any 'new normal.'"
A New Pandemic is Raging

JOE BIDEN'S 50-YEAR RAP SHEET
Chinese Firm Updates Records to Remove Hunter Biden From Its Board, But He Still Owns 10% of the Company

SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"If House Democrats hope to impeach Trump again after his presumed re-election, they ought to think hard about the ramifications."
Shifty Schiff-for-Brains Cannot Re-Impeach for Anything Prior to Jan. 15, 2020
Julie Kelly: "For two years, as Robert Mueller tried and failed to find evidence of a criminal conspiracy, Never-Trump Republicans tended to the right flank of the Trump-Russia collusion front. But their role in pushing the hoax went much deeper."
Weapons of Mass Collusion

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"American Jews and the Jewish Establishment do not advocate for themselves but exceed in advocating for others."
The Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn Are Alone in the World

POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
"Trump's Mount Rushmore speech was unifying and uplifting. But the NY Times could only see 'dark and divisive' things in it, and other media were just as bad. They seem to like to sit in the mud instead of embrace the nation on its 244th birthday."
Trump's Finest Speech -- And a Press That Beclowns Itself in Boiling Hate
"To those of us steaming as we watch Democrat governors and mayors, media, major corporations, and educational institutions fold in the face of the regressive psychology of these mobs, it is cheering to see a president standing firm."
A Night at Mt. Rushmore
"He's back! President Trump's brilliant Mount Rushmore speech Friday laid out a winning campaign theme to restore national optimism. Of course, his media antagonists fell over themselves to find fault with it."
Rushmore Was Trump at His Best
"For the first time in modern history, the presidential election will be a choice between a party that loves America and a party that hates America."
The Civil War Election
"Steve Schmidt, who works for the Never Trump Lincoln Project, said, 'The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated. Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.'"
Never Trump Republicans Plot to Give Democrats the Senate Majority
"Anticipating a debate fiasco forces the hand of the DNC to change up campaign tactics. It's called bait and switch."
Saddled with Biden, the DNC Must Rely on Bait and Switch to Win
"So how is Joe Biden going to end this nonexistent systemic racism? By throwing money at it, of course. His cynically named 'Lift Every Voice: The Biden Plan for Black America' is a smorgasbord of government-funded incentives, audits, and regulations."
Joe Biden's Race-Baiting Fourth of July Message
"Biden's America is 'the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed' so after 48 years in Washington, Biden will now fix everything he failed to fix for nearly a half century."
Newt Gingrich: Joe Biden's 4th of July Video "Most Anti-American" Speech by Presidential Candidate -- Ever
"It is one thing to claim a cognitive assessment would be insulting and refuse to take one. It is another to take it multiple times, only to hide the results."
Biden Campaign Refuses to Release Cognitive Test Results
"The mega-donor's torrent of spending highlights the extent to which liberal donors are committed to getting Trump out of office."
Nazi Collaborator and Probable Key Financier of Current Insurrection George Soros Set to Double 2016 Spending, Pouring $40 Million Into Super PAC
"Biden is on the wrong side."
The Battle for America's Soul
"Once again, President Trump has outwitted his opponents and forced them to fight on a playing field tilted toward his goal."
10 Reasons Why Trump's "National Garden of American Heroes" is Such a Brilliant Move
Sigh.
Kanye Says He's "Running For President," Picks Up Elon Musk's Endorsement

FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
"Because neither death fits the progressive narrative, the media is being very low key about them."
Black Lives Matter Protests Claim Two More Lives Over the Weekend
"The questions were so soft, anyone would have fallen asleep."
Joe Biden Meets the Press
"It's a bit rich for the 'free enterprise' crowd's first response to a surge toward a Twitter alternative to be so publicly negative, nasty, dismissive, and crude."
If You Build It, We Will Trash It

SECOND AMENDMENT
"DMV closures, gun regs leave blue state buyers in the lurch."
Some Struggle To Buy Guns as Chinese Coronavirus Shutdowns Linger

ABORTION
"Joe Biden has been struggling to walk the line between his position on abortion while in Congress -- a position that, at one time, amounted to a nearly 'pro-life' platform -- and the Democrat Party's increasingly extreme position on the issue -- a position that now includes support for abortion up until the moment of birth, as well as full Federal funding for abortion services."
Democrats Save Joe Biden, Take Federal Abortion Funding Off 2020 Spending Bills

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The Trump administration had the 'moral clarity' to recognize that the 'removal of the Jewish people [from West Bank settlements] as an Israeli obligation in a peace accord is morally reprehensible.'"
Expert Says "Annexation" Prevents So-Called Palestinians from Ethnically Cleansing Jews
"As the US pushes extending an arms embargo against Iran, explosions at two sensitive sites remind us of how ineffective the nuclear deal was."
Explosions in Iran Come at Time of Greater Scrutiny of the Regime's Illicit Weapons' Research
"Israel (no doubt with the blessing of the US) has bought itself some time. What Israel does with it is anyone's guess."
Iran Hints at Cyber Attack on Centrifuge Production Facility
"...A succinct and powerful response when Iran's Supreme Leader issued a tweet decrying those who do not wear masks, ostensibly because he cared about the health and welfare of the Iranian people."
Iran's Supreme Leader Tweets About Masks Protecting Iranians. Ric Grenell: "Do You Wear a Mask When You Push Gays Off Buildings?"
"Resistance falls apart as Beijing moves in."
China's "Birthday Gift" for Hong Kong
"Yes, tensions with Russia are ongoing. Russia does bad things. But when it comes to threats to America, China must be our overwhelming focus. And playing the Russia card would shake them to their core."
Playing the Russia Card
"Germany's Der Spiegel: Trump uses speech to 'stress the superiority of his country.'"
European Mainstream Media Outraged by Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The drills came as the Pentagon said it was 'concerned' about Chinese military exercises in the South China Sea, warning the maneuvers will 'further destabilize' the region."
US Aircraft Carriers Conduct Drills in in South China Sea

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "Leftist hypocrisy revealed once again."
Slavery Still Exists. Where's Black Lives Matter?

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
"Analysts and local politicians estimate that $250 billion to $900 billion is now stashed in South Dakota trusts by the likes of Chinese billionaires looking to keep their fortunes out of reach of the government, Europeans looking to avoid taxes and Americans looking to shield wealth from spouses."
A "Mini-Switzerland": South Dakota's Status As Tax Haven Emphasized By High-Profile Divorce Case
"The failure of the state's leadership means recovery is a long way off in Minneapolis."
Minnesota Madness
"Local politicians see the government of the District of Columbia, with its bloated bureaucracy and annual multi-billion-dollar federal payment, as their own fiefdom-cum-business. Now only statehood, accompanied by the likely demand for reparations, will do."
Swamp Within A Swamp

EDUCATION
"Student group coalition calls for firing of professors it deems 'racist.'"
Students Demand Pitt Eliminate Free Speech Protections
"Unregistered group collects $10,000 from student government coffers."
Cornell Improperly Sends Student Fees to BLM Activists

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Our intrepid science reporter with " cool image of a strange crater on Mars." I was hoping for a Hanging Judge Crater here on Earth...
A Hanging Crater on Mars

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"When you lie about what I believe about mental health medication and when you misrepresent the views of a trans woman for whom I feel nothing but admiration and solidarity, you cross a line."
J.K. Rowling Fires Back At Critics: Hormones, Surgery For Young People a "New Kind of Conversion Therapy"

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"I think we should listen to the argument there, but remember that the president at Mount Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty."
Tammy Duckworth: "We Should Listen to the Argument" For Removing George Washington Statues
"Duckworth's jab at Mount Rushmore seems particularly bizarre. Just five years ago, the very same Tammy Duckworth tweeted on the Fourth of July, 'Next year I'm going as Mt. Rushmore!'"
Wait Until 2020 Tammy Duckworth Hears What 2015 Tammy Duckworth Thought About Mount Rushmore
"In recent years, Black Lives Matter activists have been fond of quoting a speech in which Douglass called the Fourth of July a 'sham' because of slavery. However, in the remainder of the speech, Douglass praises America's founding and its principles."
Statue of Frederick Douglass Torn Down in Rochester
"If we are to strip the names of admitted slaveholders from public memorials, might we also want to demand an apology from the party that gave us slavery, secession, and a century of segregation?"
Bring Me the Head of Harry Truman
"No one outside conservative media can criticize Black Lives Matter without being fired or ostracized, so how can we expect the average American to chime in for a productive dialogue?"
We Can't Have "National Dialogues" If People Get Fired For Talking Honestly
"With BLM, we are reaping what the educators have sown."
The Myth of "White Guilt"
"Instead of destroying these iconic monuments, relocate them to red states where leaders and citizens appreciate our culture and traditions."
Let's Move Statues Honoring Heroes to Places That Will Protect and Preserve Our History
I "decide to die on this hill.
Terry Crews Doubles Down On Desire To Unite People Despite Leftist Outrage
"Say one wrong word in the year 2020, and you may be next."
The Cancellation of David Starkey
"Cheerleading the move further empowers corporations to police political discourse -- an effect you'd think the left would oppose."
The Left Weaponizes Newfound Love of Corporations to Override Native American Support For Redskins
"While most people still say they are proud to be Americans, this marks the second straight year that the number of extremely proud Americans fell below the majority level."
Left-Leaning Media Celebrates as American Pride Hits Lowest on Record on Fourth of July (left-leaning?! - jjs)
"What does our nation mean to us?"
Rejecting the Culture of Hate

HITHER & YON
Victor Davis Hanson: "The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future. Why we have this happening to our country is the only mystery left."
An Industry of Untruth
"Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi said, 'It happened, therefore it can happen again. It can happen everywhere.'"
Could IT Happen Here?
"Farrakhan then suggested that the Nation of Islam should work on its own to create a [Chinese] coronavirus vaccine."
Riots, Murder Hornets, Hold My Beer. This Farrakhan Chinese Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Is Something Else
Christian Toto: The "rapper's Instagram feed denigrates black Americans who dare vote Republican."
Snoop Dogg Calls Prominent Black Conservatives the "Coon Bunch"
"To honor the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President Calvin Coolidge gave a stirring speech on the values of faith and freedom that rings like a bell today."
What Calvin Coolidge Said on the Declaration of Independence's 150th Anniversary
"Marriage is altogether a more serious matter these days."
And They Lived "Happily Ever After": Predicted Flood of Covidivorces Never Materialized
"The number of graves beneath history's bloodthirsty communist and socialist regimes is staggering."
The Deadly Double Standard of Communism Vs. Fascism
Rabbi Fischer: "Now Revealing Why Sometimes I Seem to Have Disappeared for Weeks at a Time."
In Memoriam: For Ellen, My Precious Wife of Twenty Years, the Love of My Life -- Part 1 of 2

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.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:13 AM Comments

Sunday Overnight Open Thread (7/5/20)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

***

The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“The officers’ actions in these photos are appalling and inexcusable and will not be tolerated by the Interim Chief or by me,” Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman

Quote II

“Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today,” Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and president of a local activist organization called NDN Collective,

Quote III

DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory. White Fragility has a simple message: there is no such thing as a universal human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices, but only by our racial category.Matt Taibbi

Quote IV

“They’re making money now, plotting to give seven billion, five-hundred million people a vaccination. Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates and Melinda — you want to depopulate the Earth. What the hell gave you that right? Who are you to sit down with your billion to talk about who can live, and who should die?

… I say to my brothers and sisters in Africa, if they come up with a vaccine, be careful. Don’t let them vaccinate you with their history of treachery through vaccines, through medication.” The Honorable Minister Farrakhan

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The left has been laying the groundwork for this anarchist takeover for a long time. But even they must be amazed that the conservative response was to roll over and play dead. Except maybe they’re not playing. Ann Coulter

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We celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because, in America, we celebrate our independence from the government and not our dependence on it. Former WI Gov. Scott Walker

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If I didn't know any better, I would have guessed that this would have been a government FUBAR operation. Guess not.

After a second-stage failure, Rocket Lab loses seven satellites
“The In-Space team is absolutely gutted by this news.”

On Sunday morning, local time in New Zealand, Rocket Lab launched its 13th mission. The booster's first stage performed normally, but just as the second stage neared an altitude of 200km, something went wrong and the vehicle was lost.

In the immediate aftermath of the failure, the company did not provide any additional information about the problem that occurred with the second stage.

"We lost the flight late into the mission," said Peter Beck, the company's founder and chief executive, on Twitter. "I am incredibly sorry that we failed to deliver our customers satellites today. Rest assured we will find the issue, correct it and be back on the pad soon."

Rest assured? Dude!

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Not all black lives matter. Innocent blacks need not apply.

Why is this not the biggest story in the country?

Via WSB:

ATLANTA — An 8-year-old girl was shot and killed Saturday night in Atlanta near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks died last month.

Police identified the child Sunday as Secoriea Turner.

Officers said they responded to a shooting call near University Avenue and I-75/I-85 around 9:50 p.m. The location of the shooting was in a parking lot across the street from the now burned-out Wendy’s, which has been occupied by demonstrators since Brooks’ death.

Then there is "The Windy City". So named because of the bullets flying.

Breaking news; A three-year-old girl was shot and killed.

Breaking news: A seven-year-old girl was shot and killed.

Breaking news: A three-year-old girl was shot and wounded.

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You're going to "take" Texas? Bless your heart.

Earlier, reports noted that the group identifies as NFAC — literally standing for “Not F*cking Around Coalition” — and its leader calls himself Grand Master Jay.

Videos showed the leader discussing the group’s demands, which include a black ethnostate within the U.S.

“The solution is very simple,” he responded. “We file a declaration of liberation, declaring every African-American descendant of slavery a political prisoner here in the United States, that was affected by the Portuguese slave trade, and after that, the United States then has a choice, either carve us a piece of land out here — we’ll take Texas — and let us do our own thing, or don’t stop us when we exit this body here and go somewhere where they will give us our own land to build our own nation.

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There are still red-blooded Americans in Los Angeles. Not every guy wears a man bun and is powered by soy milk.

o fireworks on Independence Day, said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. To hell with that, said the people.

Ignoring the mayor’s order and a lack of traditional municipal displays, Los Angeles residents set off their own celebration, lighting up Southern California skies with their own fireworks.

Fireworks are illegal in the city of Los Angeles and all firework displays were banned in L.A. County this year. But explosions and roman candles have been going off for weeks, culminating in a massive display on Saturday night.

Police claimed more than 1,000 fireworks complaints came in to various branches, and they tried to respond. But the task was akin to shoveling the ocean with a spoon, and while not every citizen was happy – particularly those with nervous pets – the city was ablaze with lights and sounds for many hours on Saturday night

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NFL To Play "BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM" Before National Anthem

You too can be a Karen at an NFL game in 2020.

It would have been nice to know this before I shelled out a shitton of cash.

Oh Ron Rivera, man of integrity. If the name was so offensive, why did you want to be hired by such a racist business. Fucking virtue signaler.

Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera said work is underway to rename the NFL franchise, and revealed his hopes for the club to unveil its new name before the NFL season's mid-September start.
It was announced on Friday that the team was conducting a "thorough review" of the team's name, and a host of outlets have suggested that a name change could be implemented before Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season, when Washington will take on the Philadelphia Eagles on September 13.

Coach Rivera shares that optimism, and told the Washington Post that he would love for things to be finalized and made public in time for the start of the season.

"If we get it done in time for the season, it would be awesome," Rivera said.

Why should we watch the NFL or shop at any of its sponsors?

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Romeo & Juliet meet Opiods.

Bennett Rhodes was scrolling through Instagram early last year when he came across a young woman named Andi Galland. Twenty years old, she posed on beaches and at music festivals; she displayed an impressive command of yoga. To Bennett she epitomized the perfect bikini-clad California girl.

From his Hollywood apartment, Bennett slid into her DMs. To his delight she quickly hit him back. She liked what she saw as well: Only 18, he was a good-looking if unlikely white trap rapper with a burgeoning Instagram following. They got to chatting. Despite his hardcore raps he came from a well-to-do family in San Diego—and so did she, it turned out. She still lived there. Bennett put his cards on the table.

“I’ll bet you won’t come up and see me in Hollywood,” he said.

“I’ll bet I will,” she replied.

Bennett didn’t believe her until she arrived on his doorstep that same day. He was immediately charmed. She was funny, kind and down to do absolutely anything. She, likewise, was won over by his energy and charisma. He carried himself like the star he wanted to be.

Andi stayed with Bennett the entire weekend, joining him and his friends at parties and restaurants. She’d brought Xanax pills with her, and the pair indulged, helping fuel an immediate infatuation. “It became recurring; she ended up visiting us for weeks at a time,” says Bennett’s then-roommate, Daniel “Gibby” Gibb.

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Poor Tammy. She can't understand normal thinking.

Dem Senator Tammy Duckworth says we should consider tearing down George Washington statues

She says we should listen to that argument and then runs off talking about how Mount Rushmore is a racist monument. It drives me crazy that she acts as if these monument-topplers are rational agents even offering arguments for what they do. They don’t. They just stupidly and blindly attack ANY statue whether it makes sense or not.

I recall a certain POTUS being laughed at when he suggested the Founding Father statues would be next.

The anarchists are so rabid and fucking stupid they don't know who Frederick Douglass was.

A sad commentary on the parents of these feral pieces of shit. What a wonderful education they received in gubmint schools.

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As we know the world is screwed up. It's perfectly acceptable to accept a transgender. But it is not to accept the fact that mankind is a social creature.

Drunk people are unable to properly socially distance, the chairman of the Police Federation has said as pubs reopened in England for the first time since lockdown.

John Apter said it was “crystal clear” revellers would not adhere to the one metre plus rule as restrictions were eased on Saturday.

Prof Chris Whitty said the pandemic “is a long way from gone” and urged the public to follow social-distancing rules as pubs and restaurants reopened.

But images from London’s Soho showed packed streets into the early hours of Sunday.

Apter, who was on shift in Southampton where he dealt with “naked men, happy drunks, angry drunks, fights and more angry drunks”, said: “What was crystal clear is that drunk people can’t/won’t socially distance.

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What a small petty life........Not only does The Rick Wilson suck, he also swallows.

Te Lincoln Project objected to the President of the United States, and the nation’s commander-in-chief, for saluting during his July 4th celebration from Mt. Rushmore.

Civilians don’t salute. pic.twitter.com/W0LL3C46yn

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 4, 2020

The jab at the president was one of many by the political action committee formed by Republicans – and some former Republicans – for the express purpose of preventing Trump’s reelection. The group has launched several ads aimed at attacking the president in the 2020 race, including one with Russian language and English subtitles in a mock “endorsement” from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Former Republican political strategist Rick Wilson and GOP campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, who co-founded The Lincoln Project along with George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, spewed a barrage of insults at the president and his supporters.

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Residing in Florida continues to be a challenge. Swimming with the amoeba can be life threatening.

One person in Hillsborough County has been infected with a potentially lethal amoeba that can cause brain tissue damage, according to a Hillsborough County Health Department release on Friday.

The Naegleria fowleri is sometimes referred to as a “brain-eating amoeba.” The “microscopic single-celled living amoeba” is usually found in ponds, rivers, lakes and other warm freshwater environments. It can lead to primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection that can result in destruction of brain tissue and is often fatal.

The Health Department news release did not disclose the water body involved, the identity of the person infected or their condition.

OK, I understand HIPAA laws. But not disclosing the body of water involved is wrong. Why does this agency even exist? (Rhetorical in nature, of course)

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Georgia Tech, Please tell us.

Exactly why you are needed.

The majority of Georgia Tech professors, including some the university’s most acclaimed faculty members, have launched a revolt over reopening this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the current plan “threatens the health, well-being and education of students, staff, and faculty.”

More than 700 of Tech’s 1,100 faculty members outlined their concerns to the Georgia Board of Regents in a letter titled “Statement of Academic Faculty of Georgia Tech on the COVID-19 Crisis and Fall 2020 Semester.”

“We are alarmed to see the Board of Regents and the University System of Georgia mandating procedures that do not follow science-based evidence, increase the health risks to faculty, students, and staff, and interfere with nimble decision-making necessary to prepare and respond to COVID-19 infection risk,” the professors wrote.

The letter, dated July 2, was shared with GPB News and can be read in full here

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The ONT Musical Interlude

On this day: 5 Jul 2003
Johnny Cash made his last ever live performance when he appeared at the Carter Ranch. Before singing "Ring of Fire", Cash read a statement about his late wife that he had written shortly before taking the stage: “The spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. We connect somewhere between here and heaven. She came down for a short visit, I guess, from heaven to visit with me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has.” Cash died on Sept 12th of this year. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day: 5 Jul 1943
Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, Robbie Robertson. He joined The Hawks in 1962 who became know as The Band. Bob Dylan and the Hawks toured the United States throughout 1965 and a world tour the following year. As a songwriter, Robertson is credited for writing 'The Weight', 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down', 'Up on Cripple Creek', 'Broken Arrow' and 'Somewhere Down the Crazy River'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Those of us who go out to eat for whatever reason have been disappointed. I know I have. But there comes a time when you walk away to battle another time. Unless you are tonight's Genius Award Winner.

An Arkansas man shot out the front window of a Little Rock pizzeria after arguing with an employee about a purported paucity of toppings on a pie he ordered, police allege.

Michael Brown, 44, was arrested on multiple felony charges following a violent confrontation Monday afternoon at the Pie Five restaurant.

According to a Little Rock Police Department report, after Brown and a female acquaintance placed an order, Brown “became upset about the portion size of the order.” Specifically, Brown thought he was shorted on his pizza’s toppings (a further description of which is not contained in court records).

When Brown asked to speak with a manager, worker Eboni Smith called her supervisor and handed the phone to Brown (seen above). Brown subsequently “threw the phone at Ms. Smith striking her on the side of the face.” After another Pie Five employee asked Brown to leave, he “began arguing and went outside.”

Brown retreated to his work van and “walked back to the business holding a gun.” Brown was unable to enter the pizzeria since a worker had locked the front door. Unable to gain entry, Brown “shot out the glass to the front door,” cops charge.

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A quick video on Twitter is: Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. - Runner Up H/T redc1c4

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Most of the news coming out of Afghanistan is disheartening. Not tonight. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Shinwari, 42, worked as an interpreter with the US military for eight years in some of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan.

Knowing he was risking his life and endangering his family, he managed to save the lives of five American soldiers, including one who helped bring Shinwari and his family to the US.

As an interpreter, Shinwari wasn't supposed to fight when he joined the US military.

But during one particularly ambush in 2008, Shinwari saved the life of Capt. Matt Zeller, an American soldier he had only met 10 days earlier.

"I saw Matt Zeller, that he was alive in a ditch and there were two Taliban behind him to kill him," Shinwari told NPR. "I shot the two Taliban and I saved Matt Zeller's life."

Zeller recalled Shinwari standing above him and saying, "I'm Janis. And I'm one of your translators. You're not safe."

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 7-5-2020

Top 10 commenters:
1 [470 comments] 'Skip' [65.95 posts/day]
2 [455 comments] 'Miklosov "Bubba" Miklosevich'
3 [449 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower'
4 [442 comments] 'Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo'
5 [385 comments] 'Tom Servo'
6 [381 comments] 'runner'
7 [369 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
8 [343 comments] 'CN'
9 [340 comments] 'BurtTC'
10 [333 comments] 'rickb223'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [440 names] 'Miklosov "Bubba" Miklosevich' [61.74 unique names/day]
2 [65 names] 'Two Weeks From Enjoying a 4th of July Party With My Zooey Deschanel Blowup Doll, Which is Tomorrow'
3 [59 names] 'Duncanthrax'
4 [40 names] 'Count de Monet'
5 [34 names] 'Bete'
6 [32 names] 'Notorious BFD'
7 [30 names] 'The Joker'
8 [28 names] 'Adriane the Rhetorical Critic ...'
9 [25 names] 'Sponge - China is asshoe!'
10 [23 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'

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Gun Thread: Day After Independence Day Edition [Weasel]

—Open Blogger

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Let's take a look at some gun stuff below, shall we?

So on Thursday evening, our pal Ace posted a thread which included this video of a confrontation taking place earlier in the week in Lake Orion Michigan.

Later in the comments of the subsequent thread, our pal Jen the original made the following comments and observations.

In response to the previous post about the couple at Chipotle in Lake Orion Michigan I will say this.
I do a lot of shooting sports and I carry every single day. I take that responsibility seriously. Besides taking shooting clinics, classes, etc. I also regularly attend legal seminars in regards to use of force. Specifically for the state I live in and when I travel I review the laws of the states I'm traveling in to know what I can and cannot do in each state.

Something that is emphasized over and over in legal and in tactical classes is NOT turning into the aggressor. The law in Michigan is clear, if you are in imminent danger of harm you can defend yourself with deadly force. That includes in your home. There is no duty to retreat, but there is an implied duty to descalate whenever possible.

I personally do not want to shoot anyone, nor do I want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and a year in court trying to defend myself, or worse, end up in jail. And to prevent all of those things, you must have a clear plan at all times on how you are going to get out of a situation without using force.

I have no idea if the precipitating event that started this even happened. But once the screaming started, MO woman had quite a few better choices than what she made. She could have kindly apologized for any perceived issue. If that didn't work, she could have told black women that she was not interested in arguing with them and left. If they continued to block her, she could have immediately gone to the manager of Chipotle and told them she was being harrassed and felt in danger and let Chipotle handle these women who were likely doing this on a dare. Once she got outside, if they were blocking her from getting to her car, THEN she should have either called 911 or gone back into the Chipotle and let them call. Once she got in the car, she should have stayed in the car. If they started to surround the car, call the frickin' police.

You are in a state you don't reside in, you're pregnant, and instead of calling for help, you decide to escalate the screaming match like you're going to educate these assholes about racism, then you jump out of the car screaming, and whip out a gun and point it at the women, while standing there like you're Deputy JimBob, going to hold them under arrest until the local law gets there. There is almost no scenario in Michigan where that is legal.

It won't matter if they face trial or a judge, she at least is going to do some time in Michigan for this. And they both are going to lose their guns, including their home protection weapons in Missouri while this legal battle goes on.

Was it really worth it, over being called a racist white lady by some 15 year old black brat?

As Jen was typing (thanks Jen!), I was thinking pretty much the same thing. I was also thinking this was a great case study to start a conversation I have wanted to have here for some time. That conversaton is about our responsibilities as gun owners, and more specifically our responsibilities as gun carriers.

This sort of random confrontation has happened as long as there have been people, with the liklihood even greater in today's social climate. How would you handle the situation if it were you? First, let me preface the discussion with the acknowledgement that each state's law differs, sometimes significantly, with respect to self defense. Also, the video doesn't show everything that ocurred between the two parties, so there could easily have been important aspects of the exchange which we don't see. Having said that, I didn't observe anything even remotely approching a threat of grave bodily harm which would cause me to draw a weapon if I were in the same situation. What I did see was extremely annoying and even provocative behavior on the part of the 'aggrieved" party, and ultimately a disproportinate and unproductive escalation by Gun Lady.

As long as I've been writing the Gun Thread, I have implored everyone to do two things; to buy ammo, and to carry a weapon for self defense everywhere they go. However, carrying a weapon comes with significant responsibility. I'd argue it requires you to be much more circumspect in just this sort of confrontation. You significantly limit your options when you introduce a gun to the equation, period. Drawing a gun from it's holster is an act of last resort, and just one very final step away from pulling the trigger. It's that serious. A gun is not on your hip to intimidate or to teach someone a lesson by waving it around.

So Gun Lady went from a situation that might have only been infuriating, upsetting and then forgotten in a day or two, to jail. She likely faces some very serious charges, and will probably spend an enormous amount of time and money on her legal defense because she couldn't simply walk away from the situation. That's right, all she had to do is get in the car and leave. That might have been somewhat humiliating, but it's a much better trade than jail time and all of your life savings.

As Jen said, do you think it was worth it? How many of you think she is regretting her choices now? Gun Lady, now Former Gun Lady, had an assload of better options than drawing her weapon, none of which would have been particularly difficult. Do not let your pride and ego take over your critical thinking and make choices for you.

All of you, I hope, are familiar with the work of Attorney Andrew Branca, the author of the popular book The Law of Self Defense, and a recognized subject matter expert in the area of self defense law. Mr. Branca has an informative website and devoted his July 2nd Q&A Show to an analysis of the incident in Michigan. The show is about 40 minutes long and well worth your time (later) to see how this real world event is viewed from a legal perspective. After watching his presentation, you may be surprised at how your view of the incident changes.

Finally, you have to know the laws in your state and anywhere else you go while armed. It's your responsibility as an armed citizen, and the butt you save may very well be your own. Always be thinking and always have a plan. Sometimes that plan should simply be to un-ass the situation.

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So there has been a lot of general commentary and discussion lately regarding the implications of the use of deadly force. As usual. it seems like there are two sets of laws, one for the "peaceful protesters" and another for the property owners whose shit is being destroyed by them. I think it safe to assume the law is going to land on you with both feet in the event, God forbid, you have to defend yourself with a firearm. It was in this context the other day when someone wondered if their homeowners policy, specifically a liability umbrella policy, would start spewing cash in a self defense shooting. Our ever alert pal ibguy sent in this helpful information on concealed carry, self defense and insurance.

ibguy adds emphasis to the following from the article:

"The policy extends coverage for this type of claim, but then excludes those claims that arise due to intentional acts. In this case, it's pretty clear that you intended to shoot your attacker, so it seems as if you're on your own."

This seems academic until it's your freedom and potentially all of your assets at risk. If you're going to place yourself in that situation, you owe it to yourself to have a damn good reason for doing so.

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We don't have a Gun Thread video this week, but it occurs to me I have been filming a lot of rifles lately featuring the M1907 sling. If you have one, it's not only for carrying the rifle on your shoulder, but serves a purpose in stabilizing the weapon to the shooter. Here's a helpful video on how to put one on your rifle so you don't look like a dork.

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As with most everything in the shooting sports, one thing leads to another as our pal C K is finding:

Well getting the chronograph led to a series of things. I had to get a better scale, a trickler a funnel etc. Now I'm working up test loads that are very precisely measured. Man, that's a lot of work, I can see why you guys shoot bolt guns. The good news is after much testing my Lee dispensers vary less than a gn so when I decide on a load I can deal with a gn variance.

Keep up the good work, C K!

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Next or pal Butch sends the following picture of a way too orderly and uncluttered workspace and an interesting project:

Here is a picture of my humble work bench and a picture of my current project gun, rebuilding a Lee-Enfield No 4 Mk1. The barrel is totally shot out and I have to send it off to get a new barrel installed & head spaced. Next project is building an M1917, starting with just the receiver and other minor bits and bobs.

You doing rocket surgery in there?

Looks nice, Butch! Thanks for sending them in!

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Virginia
A slew of restrictive gun laws went into effect in Virginia on July 1st. Here's a recap courtesy of Virginia Citizens Defense League.

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ATTENTION NoVaMoMe 2020!!

Sad people who cannot make the new NoVaMoMe date of August 29th

Due the Chinese Cooties hysteria in Virginia, the NoVaMoMe 2020 has been postponed until Saturday, August 29th. The time and location remain the same. If you haven't already, please check your email and let the Central Planning Committee know if you are able to make the new date. If not, your registration fee will be refunded and we will open your spot to those on the wait list. Questions? Just email us at NoVaMoMe2020 at gee mail dot com. Thank you!

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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

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Food Thread: A Lamb Chop A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

—CBD

Lamb takes to garlic and Rosemary quite well, and as I have recently discovered, Sous Vide makes those loin chops particularly easy to cook. One of the challenges with them is that they are small and cook fairly quickly, so small variations in thickness or fat result in inconsistent doneness. But with Sous Vide those inconsistencies disappear because every bit of each chop is heated to the same temperature. And a relatively long cook time gives the lamb fat extra time to soften and melt and become unctuous rather than remain sort of hard and faintly greasy. Yeah, I have eaten badly cooked lamb (not in my kitchen!) and that is a deal breaker. Well, I'll still eat it, but I'll sulk afterward.

The chops I bought on a whim were fairly thin, so I was concerned that simply grilling them would require careful attention, and with several other things on the grill (hot dogs, ribs, asparagus) I didn't feel like worrying about it. The large Gin & Tonic had nothing to do with it.

So I popped them into a vacuum bag with garlic and fresh Rosemary, salt, pepper and a splash of olive oil. Then into the water bath at 131° for about 90 minutes. They came out ugly and gray and perfectly cooked! On to the grill for about five minutes and I was rewarded with juicy medium-rare chops that disappeared far too quickly. Next time I will get a double portion and have some leftovers.

One of the many advantages of Sous Vide cooking is the ease of timing. Everything was cooked in advance and required just a quick trip to the grill to be ready for dinner. And it doesn't even have to rest!

One thing I have noticed though, the more fat the better the results. That's why pork ribs turn out magnificently, but leaner cuts are good but not great. That may also be a function of my inexperience with the technique, but I think I am onto something.

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First-World Problems...Part Còig-deug

—CBD

I bought only one!

On a lark, because these things usually disappoint. But this one was worth the $5. Lots of sparks and sound and colors and best of all it went really high!

And really, how can you beat the name?

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The Anti-Trump Left Pulls Out All The Stops With Their Lies About The President's Mt. Rushmore Speech: "Divisive," Racial Division," "Flouts Virus Rules," "Ominous"
Apparently They Didn't Read It!

—CBD

"Große Lüge," a big lie. Sound familiar? Hitler and Goebbels understood it and used it, and the American media, whoring for the Democrat party is an enthusiastic user of this anti-freedom technique to manipulate public opinion.

Or maybe they just didn't read it and used the talking points that the DNC sent them. Because they are catastrophically wrong about its tone and intent. Just read it for yourself!

A Magnificent Speech

The president’s speech was a passionate celebration of American freedom and American greatness—a greatness, he noted, that was embodied by the sublime majesty of the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt sculpted into the granite pinnacle of Mt. Rushmore.

Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive. But no, the American people are strong and proud, and they will not allow our country, and all of its values, history, and culture, to be taken from them.

The Left's mouthpiece on 43rd street (The Whore Of 43rd?) is particularly vile...

His ominous remarks were a reflection of his political standing: trailing in the polls, lacking a booming economy or a positive message to campaign on, and leaning on culture wars to buoy his loyalists.

They embrace the polls, in spite of their rather poor record from 2016, they ignore the most current employment report that suggests a rapid return to economic health, and they can't stomach the idea that Americans like to be reminded that we have a great nation. As for culture wars? Defending Western culture and American Exceptionalism is anathema to the elites of the Upper West Side, if they even understand it.

I see the same old and tired techniques that are falling on increasingly deaf ears. Even Alinsky said that "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." The NYT and its ilk in the big blue cities need to move on to something a little more interesting, or they risk an America that tunes them out and tunes in to a president whose love for America and Americans is obvious.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread 07-05-2020

—OregonMuse

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria

Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules), and you deplorables who just want to be left alone, only you're slowly coming to the realization that Your Betters are not going to allow you to be left alone, even those who claim to be on your side. Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, snark, witty repartee, hilarious bon mots, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, spending way too much money on books, writing books, and publishing books by escaped oafs and oafettes who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even if it's these these pants, which look like they might be functional for something, but I'm not sure what. Wait, I know. If you suffer from nocturnal incontinence, these are the pants for you.

Pic Note:

Yes, this is a repeat library, (for previous pics see this thread and that thread) but I found this photo and thought wow, the Horde has got to see this. I mean, that ceiling. Wow.

It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®

Or "The riotous rioters rioted all night."

More on Owning Books

A couple of weeks ago, I discussed ways by which readers can secure ownership of their e-books, and by ownership, I mean true ownership, the kind where your book can never be stealth-edited or confiscated. 'Ette author/publisher Gunnar Grey e-mailed more thoughts on this topic:

There is one certain way to ensure you own the ebooks you buy, and that's by purchasing them through Smashwords. Like Baen Books, Smashwords sells ebooks without DRM encryption, and while they only carry about half of the books that Amazon and the other big sellers carry, and you do have to load your own ebooks into your reader — once you load it, it's yours.

To my knowledge, which isn't complete, Smashwords is the only ebook seller set up this way.

Yes, I had forgotten about Smashwords, an excellent alternative to Amazon, assuming they have what you want. Of course, once you purchase an ebook from Smashwords, you need to side-load it onto your device. Ms. Grey's instructions are more helpful than mine were:

For most e-readers, loading an ebook is as simple as plugging it into your computer. It turns into an external hard drive, similar to a flash drive, and you can drag and drop the ebook. It's no different than loading a book from Gutenberg (and I have a lot of those). You do need to figure out where on that e-reader, or into which folder, the ebook should be dropped, but the titles of the files in the folder should guide you there.

Physical books are great, only they are susceptible from damage due to fire, water, pests, and age-related deterioration. Also confiscation,

So a little Binging or Googling to find out where the book folders are on your device. And invest in a USB cable.

Who Dis:

(Last week's 'who dis' was actress Joan Fontaine. And thanks to 'ette 'CN' for this week's who dis.

Moron Recommendations

A lurker e-mailed and asked-- well, heck, I'll just post his e-mail, that would be easier:

[H]ave you seen these Osprey Series books? I strongly recommend them for those who like military history, which I know includes many fancy pants Book Threaders. Each book is just under 100 pages, and they have first class maps and graphics that show you how various battles or campaigns unfolded. They cover all the bases, too, from Alexander the Great and Hannibal, Napoleonic Wars and on to our 20th century cataclysms. They are strictly military history, and do an excellent job of providing thumbnail sketches of all the commanders involved on all sides, and a quick overview of how things got to the point of the battle (or a broader campaign, e.g., the bombing campaigns in WWII or Vietnam that went on for years). Here's some I got recently; you'll see it provides a window into many places U.S. readers rarely go (e.g., the British fighting v. Japan on the India/Burma border in 1944).

Osprey Publishing has more books on military than you can shake a stick at.

Osprey also has a smattering of fiction, which they call Osprey Adventures:

There is a line where fact and fiction meet. This is the realm of Osprey Adventures.

Unlike bookstores, the world is not divided into fiction and non-fiction. There are many subjects, such as myths and legends, secret histories, folklore, conspiracy theories, cryptozoology, UFOs and aliens that often don’t fit neatly into either category. Osprey Adventures was created to explore these topics, and produce books filled with interesting stories, whether they be factual, fictional, or somewhere in between.

Osprey is located in Great Britain, and, speaking for myself, I find their prices a bit high, but don't let that deter you fans of military history on this Smart Military Blog.

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This looked interesting:

256 By the way, whoever mentioned, "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood," the book by the kids of Henry Hill, thanks.

Great read and to say the book "Wiseguy" sanitized the home life of the Hills in an understatement.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 28, 2020 10:30 AM (WEBkv)

On the Run: A Mafia Childhood is the one where

The children of notorious Mafia wiseguy and informant Henry Hill-the real-life subject of Goodfellas-tell their own story of danger, hurt, and family in this extraordinary account of growing up with an out-of-control father in the federal witness protection program...Unfortunately for his children Gregg and Gina, they're dragged along for the ride. Like nomads, they're forced to wander from state to state, constantly inventing new names and finding new friends, only to abandon them at a moment's notice. They live under constant fear of being found and killed.

But Henry, the rock Gregg and Gina so desperately need, is a heavy cocaine user and knows only the criminal life. He is soon up to his old tricks and consistently putting their identities in jeopardy. And so it continues until the kids, now almost grown, can no longer ignore that the Mob might be less of a threat to them than remaining under the roof of their increasingly unbalanced father.

And you thought *you* had a bad childhood.

The Kindle edition is $8.99.

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263 I finished David Hackett Fischer's great "Washington's Crossing" last year. None of the brats screeching about Washington are worthy to lick his boots. An observation by Revolutionary war hero Benjamin Rush heartened me. He said that it is the nature of Americans, and possibly of republics in general, to ignore problems until things get so bad we can't anymore and only then do we act. I hope the good doctor was correct and that that is true of the present moment.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at June 28, 2020 10:34 AM (oWAzz)

The American Revolution was hanging by a thread:

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.

Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined.

Wait, wasn't one of the reasons the Hessian garrison "exhausted" could have been because Washington sent in a bunch of hookers the night before?. I think we have receipts for this. I also believe this is discussed in the book George Washington's Expense Account.

Of course, this daring, odds-defying attack is the history and the America that our children are being systematically taught to hate. The George Washington of Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) is indeed a great man.

There's also James Thomas Flexner's biography, Washington: The Indispensable Man:

Flexner peels back the myths surrounding Washington to reveal the true complexity of his character. The only founding father from Virginia to free all his slaves, Washington was a faithful husband who harbored deep romantic feelings for his best friend’s wife. An amateur soldier, he prepared for his role as commander in chief of the Continental army by sending out to Philadelphia bookshops for treatises on military strategy...The George Washington that emerges in these pages is a shrewd statesman, a wise commander, a brave patriot, and above all, “an ordinary man pushed to greatness by the extraordinary times in which he lived” (The Christian Science Monitor). In tracing Washington’s evolution from privileged son of the landed gentry to “the indispensable man” without whom the United States as we know it would not exist, Flexner presents a hero worthy of admiration not only for his remarkable strengths, but also for his all-too-human weaknesses.

Big damn hero.

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They Don't Publish Books Like This Any More:

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Books By Morons

One of my twitter peeps has just published a new novel, The Gentleman Farmers. She says

It's about losing your hometown, the lies feminism tells, American heritage, the media, the cowardice of the respectable, sublimating demographic anxiety into heritage livestock breeding, and a statue of Robert E. Lee.

The Amazon blurb has more details:

Maggie Kingsbury, single middle-aged alcoholic lawyer, joins her in-laws Molly and Kevin on a homestead in the mountains of North Carolina, where their trustafarian college frenemies Brock and Sandra have just bought their third home. Molly commissions Brock to renovate an old Appalachian tobacco barn on their property. But when maverick hillbilly throwback Uncle Billy shows up to live in their field in a camper van, power struggles ensue. Meanwhile, Kevin has become dangerously obsessed with breeding heritage livestock. When Maggie's beloved niece Juliet asks her to take on a mysterious client, Maggie becomes implicated in a national political furor.

The Kindle edition is only 99 cents.

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So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.

What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.

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EMT 7/5/20

—krakatoa

Did you independent?

I independented till I hurt.

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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/4/20) Happy Independence Day Edition

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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The Saturday Night Joke

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The Occasional Fishing Thread, Best Laid Plans Edition [Bandersnatch]

—Open Blogger

Welcome Piscators and Piscatrixes, Nimrods and Nimrettes, and Rough Riders of all genders to the current installment of the occasional fishing and hunting and other wholesome outdoorsness thread, Bander’s Not Here Edition. .

I had the best gag for this post. I was going to be off the grid because I need it and just leave you rapscallions to yourselves, but much as I wanted to I couldn’t avoid a couple absolutely have to be done things, so I haven’t set off. I will leave within a couple of days and I’m going without an agenda or timeline so I’ll be offline as much as possible.

I’ll be here somewhere:

If you’re on around the Cape and want to say hi I’m the guy with the long beard, a red XTerra and likely a blue Pungo kayak atop it. Or write the mail address below and I’ll break OpSec.

One of the things that slowed me down while life was catching up was the forecast.

Wunderground is the best thing ever. The bit that I’m really paying attention to is the arrows at the bottom which show wind speed and direction. They’ve been N-NE for too long, and while you can always possibly catch fish “East is least” is not a phrase for nothing. Anyway, it looks like the prevailing SW is coming back to town.

People used to get nutty about “spot burning” on the internet, but (i) that’s old hat, (2) there are almost no secret spots, ( C ) fish that were there today and made it to the internet may be elsewhere tomorrow, and (vier) you guys are all my buddies and pals anyway. There is an arc to these things. In the early internet it was open channel, then it went to code, then it died. Now I have assholes trying to sell me their fishing secrets on the internet. So this is a nod to the old days.

I like this spot on the outgoing. The bar in front of the mouth changes every year, so this picture is not reliable. By outgoing I mean from mid-tide (three hours in) to an hour or less before low. Slack low and slack high are nobody’s friend. That’s when you move.

I like this spot on the incoming. Bait comes in the channel and spreads out on the flats, fish follow bait. You can wade the flats if you figure out how to get there.

The Barnstable Flats is a pretty good kayak spot. There are actual oyster beds where the oyster beds show in this image. It’s from a legitimate Google maps picture, but I never figured out whether it was a gag on google’s part.

This is my real Holy Grail, the outer beaches of Cape Cod. Ocean-facing, unspoiled, pure raw surf from Provincetown to the bottom of Monomoy Island. No honky tonk, no boardwalk, no private property, Wading the surf was a peak experience.

But then it got ruined.

Twenty years ago there were two smallish colonies of these stinky bastards. One was sort of hidden and the other supported a couple of seal watching businesses that ran down to see them on Monomoy. Then they figured out that we’re not allowed to eat them and they multiplied. There are at least 80,000 of these brutes lining the coast and they’re better fishermen than we are. Fishing in the surf now means competing with these.

Of course, it’s not as if the seals have nothing to fear:

I took this at dawn. There was no one on the beach and the little girl had not returned for her flip flops.

Anyway, despite all the fishy hubris I’ll probably spend half the time at the Land Ho.

So, are you going to drop off the grid this summer? Where and how? Please to be telling stories as that’s the point of this place.

From the mailbag, we have John the Lurker:

Technically this may not be a "Fishing" pic, but what the heck. I took this picture of an Osprey in Virginia Beach VA a couple weeks ago while on a business trip. I wish it was framed better but the pesky bird refused to be agreeable. They were flying around all day showing off their catch. Beautiful bird!

I’ll say. Meanwhile, Celia Hayes was moved by the critter thread from last episode.

A good few years ago, I had a family of opossum kits at large in my back yard. At one point, when I was peacefully reading on the back porch glider, one of them climbed up onto the glider, climbed up onto my lap, experimentally gummed the edges of the book I was reading, a fold of my blouse and my finger ... and then upon concluding that none of those were any good, went to gambol among the other stuff in the back yard.
My next door neighbor, upon being told this story, confessed that if one of those hairy little rat-tailed things had ever climbed onto her lap - she would be screaming still. Possums are OK, really - they are just uber-ugly, rat-tailed cats.

And with that we move on to the raison d’etre of this here HQ, the comments section. Brickbats, praise, and fish brag pics are welcome at aoshqfish at sign gmail thing

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Saturday Afternoon Chess thread 07-04-2020

—OregonMuse

WIM Cecile Haussernot (FRA)

Note: Due to my being involved with the prep for the 4th of July festivities here at Casa de Muse, all of the problems and the pics are repeats from earlier chess threads. Except for the Melania pics, which are from yesterday. And the flag dress.

We will have a fishing thread later. As always, the chess/dress pr0n thread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.

Beginner Problem - White To Play

Goal: White can force mate in 3
Hint: Deflect the rook

r6k/ppp4r/3pqNP1/6Q1/3P4/8/PPP3P1/2K5 w - - 0 1

Intermediate Problem - White To Play (BWTC 172)

Goal: White can force mate in 4 moves
Hint:

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Advanced Problem - White To Play (Endgame 50645)

How can White win this endgame? Remember, whichever moves you select for White, make sure that Black's responses are the best ones you can find.

Hint: Force the Black king away from the queening square.

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Dress Pr0n For the 'Ettes

Perfect summer style! Airy floral dress by the beach, circa 1950s. #vintagefashion #SummerStyle #50sfashion https://t.co/wOOvp40TeN pic.twitter.com/uCtE66ZOjt
— Ephemeral Elegance (@drapedinhistory) June 28, 2017

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Greetings From Norway

Happy Independence Day!

Too Cheesy?

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Problem Solutions

Beginner Problem - White To Play

r6k/ppp4r/3pqNP1/6Q1/3P4/8/PPP3P1/2K5 w - - 0 1

1.g7+ Rxg7
2.Qh6+ Rh7
3.Qxh7#

Intermediate Problem - White To Play

r1b1qrk1/2pp1ppp/pb1n1Bn1/1p6/3PPQN1/1BP5/PP3PPP/RN3RK1 w - - 0 1

1.Qh6

The noose is tightening around Black. Capturing either attacking piece loses early:

1...gxh6 2.Nxh6#
1...gxf6 2.Nxf6+ Kh8 3.Qxh7#

If this is all you found, you did an OK job. But there is one Black defense that holds out for one more move:

1... Nf5
2.exf5 gxf6
3.Nxf6+ Kh8
4.Qxh7#

Advanced Problem - White To Play

8/8/2p2p2/8/7P/8/1k1K4/8 w - - 0 1

White has a monster passed pawn on h4. So what would happen if just ran it?

1.h5 c5
2.h6 c4
3.h7 c3+
4.Ke1 c2
5.h8=Q c1=Q+ and draw.

So the answer is: not much. The problem is, Black can get counterplay by pushing his own pawn down the 'c' file. So White needs to eliminate this threat.

1. Kd3!

Trying to get to c4. But Black easily counters.

1...Kb3
2. Kd4 Kb4

And now White has the position he wants. Black's King has been maneuvered far enough away from the c1 queening square that he will not be able to get back there in time to protect his queening pawn from capture. White may now push his passer.

3. h5 c5+

White has nothing to fear from this check.

4. Ke3 c4
5. h6 c3
6. h7 c2
7. Kd2!

Aha! And now Black is schlonged. He has to drop his King all the way back to c2 in order to protect his pawn, but he just doesn't have enough time.

7...Kb3
8. h8=Q Kb2
9. Qc8 and wins

White wins the pawn and the game.

Hope to see you all next week!

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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and paste it into your chess app.

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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Good afternoon and a Happy Independence Day to you and yours. Since it's a national holiday there isn't much of an almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread today.

Open thread, dogs, cats, skunks, it really doesn't matter.

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Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread, [KT]

—Open Blogger

Happy Independence Day to all gardeners, putterers, outdoor enthusiasts and dreamers! Don in Kansas has posted a Garden Report that includes the photo above. It sort of reminds me of fireworks. There are more at the link.

The Nigella damascena flowers are pleasingly complicated and alien-looking, but nearly all of them are either white or blue. Blues are always welcome, but the package promised purples and reds as well. At least a third of them are single, and Nigella is one instance where double flowers are preferable. It's probably time for the seed producers to re-select their stock.

To go with that blue flower, here are some red and white geraniums. Remember our Swiss Garden Dog Guide? Her American Dog Cousin lives at the home where these geraniums are in the window.

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It's Independence Day! [KT]

—Open Blogger

Happy Independence Day! The folks at Maggie's Farm got going earlier than I did this morning. Bird Dog reminds us that,

It's a good day to think about all of the wonderful things about the USA.

What wonderful things about the USA come to mind for you today?

The Mount Rushmore event yesterday got some great reviews.

I noticed this one from Quint and FenelonSpoke in the EMT this morning, which includes a review of the live Fox broadcast:

Great speeches last night by Governor Kristi Noem, The Secretary of the Interior, and President Trump. Thanks to Trump's speechwriter Steven Miller, If you didn't hear the speeches last night you can hear them on C-Span. God bless America!. Lord have Mercy!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2020 07:37 AM (M7/zw)

Fox made a right mess of it. Whenever you are trying to watch a speech like that, a convention, dedication, or some other presentation, you are almost always better off going with Cspan. You can go between the two channels and it will be striking. Half the time Fox will be at commercial and the other half some blow hard will say he is "monitoring" the event.

Seems like good advice. Be prepared for the next one you watch live. The White House video of the event is included below.

Also below the fold, one reason why we need to remain vigilant about our independence.

And now, an example of why we need to remain vigilant as we celebrate Independence Day.

California legislature votes to allow discrimination:

This week, the legislature in California voted to remove the constitutional prohibition on "discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting." That's right, California just voted to allow racial and gender discrimination in all its public activities. The bill will move to the ballot in November for a popular vote.

It's all because of the COVID virus and George Floyd, of course. Not really.

It's not like people don't know better. Gail Heriot:

The best reason for retaining Proposition 209 isn't that repealing it will encounter opposition. It's that the initiative has been good for Californians -- of all races -- and would have been even better if followed more faithfully. Opponents argued in 1996 that if the University of California system were required to apply the same admissions standards to all students regardless of race, under-represented minority students would suffer. The reality was the opposite: It enhanced their academic success.

The plight of Asian applicants to colleges is interesting.

Affirmative action in a multi-ethnic nation:

In Malaysia, after the British colonial administration departed, the fledgling nation faced simmering ethnic tensions among native Malays (bumiputeras/"sons of the soil") and overseas Chinese and Indians. After race riots and the balkanization of political parties along ethnic lines, the Malaysian government promulgated a vast quota system to boost the Malay majority. This system ranged from the customary university sinecures and public contract set-asides to reserved storefront spots in public spaces. The term "Ali Baba" there describes an arrangement wherein "Ali," the native Malay, acts as a frontman for the actual Chinese/Indian business owner "Baba." Despite state discrimination, the overseas Chinese and Indians remain far wealthier and better educated than native Malays.

Contrast with California after prohibition of state discrimination. Gail Herriot again:

In the year immediately prior to Proposition 209's implementation, only one African American student in the entire freshman class was an honor student. Following implementation, a full 20% of African American freshmen were. That was higher than the rate for Asian Americans (16%) and extremely close to the rate for whites in the same year (22%). Even more impressive, the number of under-represented minority students in academic jeopardy collapsed. As Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. show in their 2012 book, "Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It," in the years immediately following Proposition 209, it had three effects on under-represented minorities in the UC system. It increased (1) graduation rates, (2) GPAs, and (3) the number of science or engineering majors.
Call it a Triple Crown.

And before Prop. 209, early efforts at affirmative action in California had not always achieved sterling results. Even when the truly disadvantaged, like street gang leaders, were promoted in college admissions. Here's the story of the 1969 gunfight at UCLA. Not long after that, a California academic invented Kwanzaa. It was not all based in sweetness and light.

Be careful about how the Left uses words like "diversity" and "equity". This is very disturbing:

Kendi writes, "The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist." It is on this line of thought precisely that we have recently seen the California State Legislature vote to remove the anti-discrimination verbiage from its state constitution. (Emphasis mine) "Equity" would require us to discriminate against "dominant" groups and in favor of "oppressed ones," as Theory has defined it, so achieving "Equity" means doing identity-based discrimination, potentially endlessly because they'll be virtually impossible to achieve just due to random fluctuations in population dynamics.
Even creating "Equitable" outcomes like perfect parity won't be enough, however, because Critical Race Theory is also what might be described as "ethno-historical." Thus, even if there are no current disparities to be found (and there always will be because they can also be made up at the level of culture or subjective feelings), in any cases where there are historical ones to appeal to, those will have to be made up for too in order to achieve "Equity." Thus, applying "Equity" from a Critical perspective results something like a combination of affirmative action and reparations, in one form or another.

Be that as it may, if we believe the Theory upon which it is now based, the demand for "Equity" becomes hopeless and perpetual. . .

And via J.J. Sefton, now we must fight for our independence again. Maybe after a weekend break.

Hope you get to do something fun and/or meaningful.

Remember that this is the Thread before the Gardening Thread

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Saturday Morning Coffee Break

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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EMT 7/4/20

—krakatoa

Independence is a warm gun.

And oversleeping.

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The Itsy Bitsy ONT Went Up The Waterspout

—WeirdDave

(Nobody tell the genie about Charlotte's Web)

The American Dream

Listen to Tim Scott's story and try to tell me the American dream is dead. pic.twitter.com/OrWf4ITJXN
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) June 24, 2020

Tim Scott is certainly an American success story, but how do we ensure that he becomes the norm, and not the exception?

Black Fathers Matter

It's not an exclusively black problem. The pathologies exhibited by children raised without fathers in the home are the same across all races. Unfortunately, what the black community does have is the highest percentage of children raised in such circumstances. Why has this come to pass?

LBJ vs. the Nuclear Family

A fun topic of debate among history minded individuals is “Who was the worst president?” Buchanan has his champions, and Wilson usually carries off the trophy. Both are excellent choices, but for my money LBJ deserves a seat at the table. The article linked above describes his Great Society as “well intentioned”. Don't you believe it. Johnson was an unrepentant racist who one remarked that he'd “have those (blacks) voting Democrat for 200 years” by destroying the structural underpinnings of the black community and making them dependent on big government. We ended slavery in this country, but Johnson was clever enough and evil enough to ensure that serfdom replaced it. Vile man.

Fathers Matter

What I want to know is, what did he go back into the car for? Did his son drop his wallet?

Looking For A Good Deal?
We got you covered:

It Means “Here Comes An S!”

Unnecessary Apostrophes

Not Putting The Best Face On Things

25+ Questionable Photos Taken By Real Estate Agents On The Job

I like the stairs toilet. In case nature calls halfway up.

Musical Interlude

Best-Selling Musicians of All Time (By U.S. Album Sales)

One band I'm surprised isn't on the list here is Styx. Growing up in the 80s you couldn't go to a yard sale, thrift store or tag sale without finding a copy of The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight or Cornerstone. Wiki says they sold 54 million albums, so they should be on that list. Weird.

This is off their Paradise Theater album. If someone wants to know about early 80s fashion looked like, and you have no pictures of Hall and Oates handy, Dennis DeYoung here would make a pretty good substitute. That 'fro! The porn 'stache! And how about Chuck Panozzo randomly in a tux? Classic.

Paradise Theater would be their last triple platinum album. Here's a song from their first:

In this one DeYoung's sartorial sense echos Freddie Mercury, again, pretty typical for 70s prog rock.

A Warning

Why you should care about statues coming down. Sound advice from a Venezuelan who lived through a socialist revolution. pic.twitter.com/GCTgIcrryd
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 23, 2020

You think it can't happen here? Dream on. I wonder, however, how many of these sunshine leftists realize that revolutions justified on “equality” always wind up eating their own?

The Mobs Are Coming for the Progressives

I'm sure that Mr. Stalin would be shocked to find out what was really going on in the gulags! These fools will be standing naked against the wall in the basement of the Lubyanka, and their last words will be “Black lives matter!”

Random Links

Cirque du Soleil filing for bankruptcy Due to CoronaVirus, or more accurately, the reaction to CV. I've seen maybe 4 or 5 Cirque shows, and while all of them were fantastic, only the first one metaphorically knocked me flat on my back in amazement. Don't get me wrong, the others were great, especially Ka, but they didn't have that “I've never seen anything like this in my life!” impact. Anyone else feel similarly?

Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals The Scary Things He Learned, Advises People To Stay Away From It

I had it on my phone. Never really used it, but I deleted it when the malware aspect of it started coming out. Still, I wonder, is it too late? Is my phone irredeemably compromised?

Tonight's ONT brought to you by brass balls:

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) July 4, 2020

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Open Thread

—Ace

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The Conservative Case For Mocking SoiBois

—CBD

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Why Yes, That Is A Pig In Flight! Judge Agrees With The Firing Of Political Apointees

—CBD

Michael Pack's nomination was held up by McConnell and the "Republican" senate for far too long, but it seems as though Mr. Pack is making up for lost time. And, shockingly, an Obama-appointed Judge agrees that administrative decisions belong to the administration!

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of USAGM CEO Michael Pack, Tells Fired Officials Decision Belongs "At the Ballot Box"

Federal District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell, appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled in favor of U.S. Agency of Global Media (USAGM) CEO Michael Pack, dismissing a request from Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Ambassador Karen Kornbluh, and Michael Kempner, former members of the dissolved Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and replaced members of the boards of directors of plaintiff OTF, RFE, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and Ben Scott, a member of the board of directors of plaintiff OTF, to reverse Pack’s decision to replace them on the broads of directors of USAGM’s non-federal entities. Judge Beryl denied their motion, stating that they “have fallen short of making the requisite showings“ to rule in their favor on their motion for for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.

It's appointments like these that make me feel all tingly inside for President Trump. Is it happenstance or a plan? I have no idea, but Pack and Grennell and a few others are the ones to drain the swamp, and hopefully pave it over and build a shooting range. And a fundamentalist church. And a Proud Boys Club house. And the national chapter of Keep America Great.

[Hat Tip: muggedbyreality]

Posted by CBD at 04:00 PM Comments

Pre-4th of July Open Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

(H/T Bluebell, The Cauliflower Queen)

Our founding Fathers were not Karens.

Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 02:53 PM Comments

CNN: Study Finds That Hydroxychloroquine Helped Patients Survive Coronavirus, Cutting Death Rates In Half

—Ace

But but but it's going to kill you.

The Fat Thumb on Fox at 4:00 screamed that at me.

A surprising new study found that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped patients better survive in the hospital.
A team at Henry Ford Health System in Southeast Michigan said Thursday its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that those given hydroxychloroquine were much less likely to die.

Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of infectious disease for Henry Ford Health System, said 26% of those not given hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 13% of those who got the drug. The team looked back at everyone treated in the hospital system since the first patient in March.

I notice that AllahPundit, who literally writes up every single negative story about HCQ, generously permitted John Sexton to field this one at Hot Air.

S.E. Cupp, will you be noting this complete repudiation of your hysterias?

And what about this Fat Thumb?

Posted by Ace at 01:31 PM Comments

Open Thread

—Ace

Posted by Ace at 12:34 PM Comments

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

So the CHAZ in Seattle is no more. The police moved in and cleared it out. Probably take weeks, if not months, to clean up all of the filth and debris. Most likely the murders that took place there will go unsolved.

So why were the Seattle police finally ordered to shut it down?

192 Mayor DumBitch had BLM thugs show up to her house. Now CHAZ is being taken down by the police. But remember she is a woman of the people and stuff.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at July 01, 2020 11:53 AM (SjAGT)

In other words, BLM overplayed their hand. They pissed off the wrong people. I'll bet you anything that as soon as the mob showed up outside her house, Mayor Derpaderp was on the phone giving the 'go' order to shut down what she had previously called 'a big block party.'

And so the 'summer of love' officially became 'the winter of discontent.'

The Burn-Loot-Murder crowd should learn a lesson from this, but they won't.

But you know who could've told them this would happen? That crazy-ass college prof who made a multi-state nuisance of herself starting about, oh, what, 14-15 years ago, I'm not going to mention her name because I don't want to attract attention because the last thing ace needs is a mentally ill stalker pounding on his door, and yes, stalking and harassing is what she likes to do. When she's not in jail. It was like she was getting high from her psychotic behavior, only, like other drugs, she needed larger and larger doses to get the same high. So she went from extremely vile comments about a blogger's little kids to stalking ex-girlfriends and then random bar hook-ups, becausse yes, drinking was involved, too.

I saw the whole thing play out over the years like a slow-motion train wreck, and this is when my attitude toward law enforcement changed. Before this, I pretty much thought that LE could do no wrong, if you got your ass beat by the police, you obviously did something wrong, and the innocent had nothing to fear. Well, nothing happened to this crazy lady. She got warnings, citations, stern talking-tos, and that fearful punishment, probation. In other words, nothing. Nobody who could do something would do anything, not really, and she just kept up her psychotic behavior.

Personally, I think that LEOs are like the rest of us and simply don't want to have to deal with persistently crazy people, especially since involuntary psychiatric commitments are pretty much illegal, and you just can't shoot them, so what you can do? I think they just did whatever they could to push her out the door, get her out of their faces, and hoped for the best.

But the nutty professor just couldn't get that same old high, so she had to escalate. From her run-ins with the law, she came to know cops and lawyers and DAs and other LEOs, so she started to harass and stalk them. And then it wasn't long before they arrested her and when probation didn't work, she went to jail. That is, for the first time, something actually happened to her because of something that she did. And when she got out and violated the "no internet" condition of her early release (and also started harassing again), and then tried to run away, they eventually caught her.

Oh, and I suppose I should mention her parents as a contributing factor, they supposedly helped with her legal expenses and argued for lenient sentencing in court. In other words, they pretty much acted as her chief enablers.

But my point is, her crime spree only ended when she pissed off the wrong people, i.e. individuals with clout. The powerful. The privileged, if you will. I hate sounding like a damn commie, but there it is. If she had been able to show a bit of restraint and confine herself to harassing unimportant people such as bloggers and lovers who had jilted her, I think she'd still be free, even today.

So now I'm seeing cities burn while the police are told to stand down -- until the protestors suddenly show up in the posh neighborhoods. It's happened in Seattle, as ace discussed the other day, and also Portland, which maybe you didn't hear about. Antifa scum tried to set up their own autonomous zone, there, too, but the idiots made the mistake of creating a ruckus outside the Portland mayor's house, so they were quickly dispersed, and the autonomous zone never really got off the ground.

And apart from all this, I was also reading accounts of RICO abuses, civil asset forfeitures, and no-knock raids that went horribly wrong and the refusal of LE to take responsibility for the damages and deaths they caused. So let's just say that my views on LE and LEOs were becoming more, as they say, nuanced.

( *General Flynn nods sagely* )

Anyway, it must be absolutely infuriating to be a business owner caught inside the CHAZ, watching the police being ordered out and Antifa scum turn the neighborhood into a 3rd-world slum. And then have to listen to the mayor publicly announce that she's on the same side as the looters and antifa thugs. You can read some of her outrageous statements in the class-action lawsuit against the city of Seattle. Also see lovely photos of the utopia that the CHOPsters had set up. A second federal lawsuit was filed a day or two ago, but I haven't been able to find it online.

I hope there are a bunch of others.

This could be a red-pill experience for these people, but it most likely won't be. They'll most likely continue to vote for the most extreme Democrat on the ticket and as they see their city crumble into ruin before their eyes, they won't think of it any differently than they do an earthquake or flood. Eh, sh*t happens. They don't need a red pill, what they need is a red suppository. A real BIG one.

#UPDATE: First look at the #CHOP zone since Seattle Police cleared it out this morning.

Dozens of tents and lots belongings left, but all protestors have been cleared out. @KIRO7Seattle pic.twitter.com/dULugXBtBz
— Deedee Sun (@DeedeeKIRO7) July 1, 2020

Posted by OregonMuse at 11:17 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Lot And His Daughters
Hendrick Goltzius,

[Hat Tip: Scuba Dude]

Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM Comments

The Morning Report - 7/3/20

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here along with the 244th birthday of the United States of America. Tragically, the word "United" is very much in doubt, perhaps more than at any other time in our history. Strange, and rather ironic that it lands so close to the anniversary of my uncle's death in battle on Saipan. Given the situation we find ourselves in, you can imagine some of my emotions as I lit his "yahrzeit" (memorial) candle.

A yahrzeit is supposed to be a time of peaceful, somber reflection and remembrance. But within a few seconds of striking that match, I could not help but feel utter hatred and loathing, not so much for the blind pig-ignorant rabble burning, looting and killing but their leaders who have usurped and twisted the meaning of the words truth, justice and freedom - our very identity - to justify subjugation and destruction. The gargantuan lie of self-proclaimed oppression and victimhood while oppressing and victimizing what are supposed to be one's fellow citizens as evil demons and monsters to be eliminated is beyond my capacity to describe the sheer gall of the presumption. Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Junipero Serra, Teddy Roosevelt, Christopher Columbus or even Mahatma-freaking-Gandhi - whether crude, spray-painted epithets or worse, the government-sanctioned removal, the demonization and erasure of our history is an abomination. Worse are the censorship and outright persecution of those who dare utter an opinion against this madness, and worse still, millions more who are scared into silence.

Antifa and BLM, dangerous as they are, are not the instruments of our doom; it's going to be corporate America, now occupied not by bedraggled citizens - now ex-citizens - of CHAZ-CHOP, but by equally brain-damaged stooges with Ivy League degrees and C-suite titles that potentially will bring us to our knees. Things like Nike no longer selling Washington Redskins merchandise may very well lead to the rapid demise of that team's name in a way that several decades of petitions never could have. And that's just one incident. When you consider the terrifying prospect of China's "social scoring," which our very own Google had a big hand in developing, being implemented here - and it may already be implemented - that is how 315 million of us will be made to care by a relative handful of insurrectionists. Couple that with one political party that is a de-facto enemy alien entity and another that is pretending to defend the Constitution, as well as a thoroughly corrupt bureaucracy and courts, propaganda-spewing media and brainwashing mills for schools and we have ourselves a situation.

That is the real desecration. That is akin to defecating on my uncle's memory and I cannot accept it. While despite the gloom and doom of the headlines I feel that President Trump will still prevail come November, we will still be a nation divided. The terror campaign as well as the economic front and psychological warfare that will be waged on him and us in the next four years will make the first go round seem like a picnic. And G-d help us if he loses. That said, and assuming victory, the question is what lies ahead at 12:01 PM on January 20th, 2025? Just like the distance between now and this November is both an eternity and a blink of an eye, so too is the former time frame.

In any case, all I can say is have courage, keep the faith, live for the joys and surprises life brings us, and preserve, protect and defend the memory of those who came before us. That is the America that is at stake. The collective memory of what was and what should be.

Happy Fourth of July. To independence, once again.

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

"We just talked to the president of the United States. How are you going to top that?"
Father, Whose Son Was Killed in Seattle "CHOP" Zone Gets Call from President Trump
"NYC mayor Bill de Blasio had uncharacteristically strong words for protesters 'occupying' City Hall, vandalizing city buildings and public statues, and taunting NYPD officers, but the mayor refused to say whether he would double down on efforts to remove the 'autonomous zone' growing around the city's government buildings."
De Bolshevik Calls NYC City Hall Protests "Vile" But Won't Break Up "Autonomous Zone"
Dissent: "The majority's decision to affirm the release of these Appellees from pretrial detention subjects the community to an unacceptable risk of danger."
Appeals Court Frees Molotov Cocktail Lawyers on Bail and Home Confinement
"[Jason] Charter has connections to Antifa and was in a leadership role on the night of June 22 when a large group of protesters tried to pull down the statue."
Feds Arrest Leader of Attack on Andrew Jackson Statue Near White House
"Janover was slated to work as a 'government and public business service analyst,' which may have been a client-facing position -- a situation which could have put Deloitte in trouble with its wealthy clients, who likely have a variety of political views."
Harvard Grad Blames "Trump Supporters" After Being Fired From Her "Dream Job" Over TikTok Threat
Dear Lord, what a loathsome, maniacal slag this beast is.
McCarthy to Malig-Nancy Pelosi: Condemn Rioters Who Knocked Down Saint's Statue. Malig-Nancy Pelosi Sneers: "I'm Trying to Save the World From [Chinese] Coronavirus"
"The real problem with the NYPD budget isn't officer headcount; it's spiraling retiree fringe-benefit costs."
The Wrong Cuts
"Even in states Republicans control, they refuse to punish the rioters unless they shoot someone, they refuse to clear the roads, they refuse to protect the police from unjust lawfare, and they refuse to empower the citizenry to fight back and defend themselves. When they do, they are the ones who get prosecuted, and those sheriffs who call for their defense get fired."
Republicans Won't Even Fight for Self-Defense
"The GOP's priority should be fighting, not pandering, and they shouldn't confuse the two either."
Even in Trump Era, Republicans Prioritize Pandering Over Pushing Back
"The thirst among Republican voters isn't even for policy. It's for seeing the politicians they elected join the fray."
What Should Republicans Do?
Lloyd Billingsley: "The case for an American Revolution Movement for Self-Defense."
A Call to ARM

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"For centuries, America has embraced self-defense, but activist prosecutors may be applying it unequally depending on race."
Have We Reached the Point at Which Self-Defense is a Crime?

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
Betsey McCaughey: "In a report released this week, the GAO details dozens of dangerous failings in one government department after another -- failings that needlessly put you and your loved ones at risk."
How the Swamp Mucked Up America's Chinese Coronavirus Response (mucked, with an "F" - jjs)
"The court declares that Defendant [Pritzker] had no constitutional authority as Governor to restrict a citizen's movement or activities and/or forcibly close business premises in EO 32."
Judge Nukes Illinois Lockdown: Sitz-Pritzker "Had No Authority" to Restrict Movement and Close Businesses
What's more disgusting; the hypocrisy of this rancid, brilliantine fraud or the fact that Californians willingly obey his edicts that don't apply to him?
Gavin Noose-'em Nailed for Shutting Down Businesses -- But Not His Own Wineries
"This admission about the terrifying effects of lawlessness in downtown Seattle comes from the lips of the very public official who put up with it for so long -- and who defended CHOP when President Donald Trump called on her to restore law and order."
Seattle Mayor Admits CHOP Antifastan Caused Crime Wave, "Alarming" Spike in Chinese COVID Cases
"One of the first movers to reopen the economy, Governor Kemp was attacked by the press and the Health Experts(TM) as reckless and incompetent."
Big Win for Governor Brian Kemp as Georgia Chinese COVID-19 Deaths Hit 3-Month Low
Oh FFS, Abbott! A spike in cases with a flat death toll means the disease is statistically no deadlier than flu! And masks are useless anyway.
Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Order That Will Require Many Texans To Wear Masks In Public Spaces as Chinese COVID-19 Cases Spike
"He has been wrong every time, on every issue." (swap Abbott out for this guy - jjs)
Texas Lt. Governor Lambasts Fauci
"'[E]very deputy who issues a ticket will be sued, every fine dropped!! U didn't enforce it at march of city hall political cronies, u cant enforce it against everyone else, that' an abuse of power and a VIOLATION OF PEOPLES RIGHTS!' wrote one person on Twitter."
No Mask In West Hollywood? $5,000 Fine!
"Three weeks ago, 100,000 gathered for LA's BLM protests. Now, for some strange reason, the LA area is seeing a surge in Chinese Coronavirus cases."
Los Angeles Sheriff Will Not Enforce New County Order Shutting Down Beaches for July 4th
"[Governor Mike] DeWine and officials at the Ohio Department of Health have been under fire in recent months for what many consider to be their heavy-handed approach to the virus and the lack of transparency coming from state government about how decisions that affect the lives of 11.69 million Ohioans are being made."
What Are They Hiding? Ohio Health Dept. Says FOIA Requests Can Be Delayed Until 90 Days After Chinese COVID-19 Emergency Ends

SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
So, Schiff-for-Brains colluded not with the President but with the Russians.
Report: Schiff-for-Brains Learned of Russian Bounty Allegations in February and Took No Action
"...all but ensuring that those records won't feature in the presidential election."
In Setback for Democrats, Supreme Court Will Hear Case On Sealed Mueller Evidence
"While the evidence is clear that President Trump didn't ignore the uncorroborated and disputed intelligence about alleged Russian bounties on U.S. troops, we do know that President Obama was repeatedly briefed about the rise of ISIS, but failed to respond to this intelligence."
Susan Rice Accidentally Proved Barack Obama (Not Trump) Is Guilty of Dereliction of Duty

DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
1996, the Clinton administration. And yet they jumped on President Trump and everyone associated with him in a nanosecond with charges they themselves helped to fabricate. Abolish the FBI.
FBI Knew Of Allegations Against Ghislaine Maxwell As Early As 1996, Accuser Says. It Took 24 Years To Arrest Her
"A new campaign video from Joe Biden features a small business owner who says the Trump administration did nothing to help her during the [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic. Unmentioned is that she received thousands through the administration's Paycheck Protection Program."
Biden Trots Out Small Business Owner Who Got Thousands in Gov't Assistance to Argue Trump Isn't Helping Small Business
"The union [AFGE] is closely affiliated with the Democrat Party: It endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and [former union president Jeffrey David] Cox served in several posts in the Obama administration. The union also provided an early boost to Biden's campaign."
Federal Workers Accuse Biden Labor Ally of Sexual Misconduct, Racial Discrimination

OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"'American capitalism' and Israel 'were built on the 'repression of minorities... And that's why we say police from Palestine to Mexico to the United States -- police as a whole -- need to go!'"
Watch: Black Lives Matter Protesters Shout "Israel, We Know You, You Murder Children, Too"
Daniel Greenfield: "Jewish lives don't matter to Jewish allies of Black Lives Matter."
Liberal Jewish Leaders Accuse Jews of Racism, Cover Up Anti-Semitism
"Whenever you try to cancel us and do these movements that pop up once every couple years, it only makes us stronger because normal people want an escape for a couple fucking seconds from this fucked up world... It just makes them like us more, so alright, keep trying to cancel us, we'll keep growing stronger."
Anti-Israel Group Expands Boycott From Jewish State to Barstool Sports
"Under the new leadership of Jonathan Greenblatt, a former high-level partisan of the Obama administration, the ADL has made its focus the destruction of political conservatism and President Trump."
Anti-Defamation League Elevates an Anti-Semite and Hurts America

POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
Conrad Black: "All the country needs is a couple of weeks without the president seeming to be the source of this cacophony for the national interest in sensible government to reassert itself."
A Silent Strategy for the President Will Spur the Silent (and Sane) Majority
"Democrats concluded that if they must destroy our economy with false lockdowns and open rebellion to regain power, they will do so because they would rather rule in the ashes than be the minority party in a prosperous republic."
Nothing Is Off Limits to Defeat Trump
"Joe Biden... is running on the most progressive platform in Democratic Party history, and whose election would create an opportunity for the big, structural changes this country needs."
MoveOn Blows Up the Myth That Joe Biden Is a Moderate
"Impending events involving the Biden campaign will all fall out in Trump's favor."
Why Biden's Lead Will Evaporate
From Gravis Marketing and One America News Network (OAN), for what it's worth.
Poll: Trump, McSally Lead Democrat Challengers in Arizona
Julie Kelly: "Republicans need to wield their power forcefully and unflinchingly over the next four months -- or they will deserve to lose it in November."
Sheep in Elephant Costumes
Watch the Democrats shriek "voter suppression!"
Detroit Removes Thousands of Dead Registrants From Voter Rolls
"The liberal responses 'are driven by contempt for their fellow-countrymen in general and working-class whites in particular.'"
Poll: Most Liberals Say Americans Are Too Lazy to Work
"Not since the Civil War has Independence Day been celebrated amidst such threats to our country's political heritage."
Independence Day and the "Woke" Revolution
"The ideology behind the lust to tear America down."
The Believer

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Today's selection from the Malig-Nancy Pelosi "Spark-of-Divinity" files.
Illegal Alien Charged with Secretly Recording 15-Year-Old Girl in Bathroom

FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
So, she's still batting close to 1.000 on never being right, I see.
Rachel Maddow Wrongly Predicted Jobs Numbers Would Be Absolutely Terrible"
"The market rose at its fastest rate in more than 20 years in the second quarter. The media reaction? Crickets.
Why Do the Media Ignore Good News About the Stock Market and Economy?
"The Marxist blood running in the veins of the media, of celebrities in Hollywood, in nearly every Democrat politician, and unfortunately some weak sister Republicans, demands that we do not question the Left."
If It Weren't for Double Standards, Our Media Would Have None
"This is a version of a real exploit called a 'denial of inventory' attack."
Tik-Tok Users Attempt to Shut Down Trump Merchandise Sites

SECOND AMENDMENT
"Even as the very scenario that demonstrates the need for high-capacity magazines unfolded in St. Louis, the Colorado Supreme Court endorsed the view that you don't need one."
Why You Have a Constitutional Right to a High Capacity Magazine

ABORTION
"Through Roberts and his application of stare decisis the Court, as it is currently constituted, will continue the legal farce that there is a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution."
A Conflict of Visions on the Supreme Court

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The snuffing out of freedom - and what it portends."
Red China Moves on Hong Kong
"It's critically important -- and the SHEET Act can help."
Countering Beijing's Aggression Against Hong Kong
"WHO backtracks on original claim that China self-reported, admits this never happened."
China Never Reported Existence of Chinese Coronavirus to World Health Organization
"Survivors of the camps have testified to the prevalence of indoctrination, torture, rape, slavery, murder, and forced organ harvesting, sterilization, and abortion. Reports have identified dozens of multinational corporations -- including American companies like Nike and Apple -- as having ties to factories in China believed to use Uyghur slaves for manufacturing."
"Forced Labor": US Seizes $800,000 of Human Hair from China's Uyghur Region
"The Chinese regime fears sunlight. It fears the truth... Tyranny thrives in darkness."
Sen. Ted Cruz: Treat China Like It's the New Soviet Union
He [Tom Cotton] suggested that this assault on Hong Kong's liberties may be the most important event of 2020, even more monumental than the coronavirus pandemic or the George Floyd riots. (assuming the propagandist media doesn't embargo it - jjs)
The Biggest Story of 2020 Won't Be COVID or Riots, Tom Cotton Warns
"Either Iranian scientists are unlucky or incompetent, or someone is targeting the Iranian nuclear program and trying to eliminate it piece by piece."
Another "Accident" at Iran Nuke Site
Destroyers > lawsuits, no?
US Files Suit to Seize Gasoline in Four Iran Tankers Headed to Venezuela

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
More blood and treasure wasted.
Senate Votes Down Bill to End War in Afghanistan
"In her rationale for the APTA, Cheney indirectly referred to a New York Times report - which was denied by the Defense Department - alleging the offering of bounties by Russian operatives to the Taliban for the killing of American soldiers."
Liz Cheney Joins Democrats Opposing Trump's Afghanistan Withdrawal
"It is simply unprecedented and wrong for any commander in chief to meddle in routine military matters at all, whether or not he has a personal vendetta against a soldier who did his patriotic duty and told the truth." (I thought "meritocracy" was a racist concept - jjs)
Tammy Duckworth Vows to Block 1,000 Military Promotions Unless Pentagon Promises Not to Retaliate Against Liar, Traitor, Disgrace-to-the-Uniform Bearclaw Vindman

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Greece said that Turkey risked opening up a 'huge emotional chasm' with Christian countries if it continued pushing for the conversion of the museum, a change cheered by Turkey's Islamists and endorsed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
Tension Between Christians and Turkey Rise While Awaiting Final Hagia Sophia Decision
"There is a non-negotiable conflict between Western progressivism and Islamist ideology."
Make Love, Not Jihad

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
Giant Nelson Muntz laugh at the Dems for not paying attention and passing a bill that stops graft.
Senate Accidentally Passes Bill to Stop Paying Dead People
"The November ballot is settled and we all know how Californians will vote for president, but their initiative decisions will really define the state's future."
Some Scary Propositions
Seila Law gently pulls the Supreme Court back toward constitutional design.
Reining in the Administrative State

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The future looks a lot rosier than it did a couple of months ago. The gains in employment are only part of the story, as the economy seems poised to rev up to levels not seen before."
Record Job Growth in June as Unemployment Rate Plummets
Equally great jobs numbers.
Government Employment Down 1,469,000 Since February
"We estimate that if you allowed people to continue to get these super high unemployment benefits,... that would reduce employment this year by 10 million people, so if Trump were to allow that to happen, there's no way he could get reelected, because we couldn't have an expansion."
Freedom Works' Stephen Moore: Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Plan Would Pay People More to Stay Home Than to Work

HEALTHCARE
One more angle to Make America Third World
Top Health Officials: Lockdowns Disrupt Vaccinations, Leaving US Children at Risk for Other Diseases
Please, before they cover him with dirt, go take John McCain's thumb and shove it up your collective rectal cavity, sideways.
GOP Senators Propose Lowering Healthcare Costs, Increasing Transparency

EDUCATION
"Whatever the benefits are of getting the kids out of the house more regularly, the long-term lockdown and accompanying hemming & hawing on the part of various school districts have more parents considering homeschooling."
Parents Everywhere Agree: Reopen Schools -- Immediately!
"The Supreme Court eliminates a legal vestige of anti-Catholic prejudice."
Support All Schools
Victor Davis Hanson: "How can so many sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing? Ask questions like these, and the answers ultimately lead back to the university."
Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Daniel Greenfield: "The inherent problem with science is that it requires objectivity. And objectivity is the thing that leftists hate for the same reason that any cult does. Objectivity asserts that we can find the truth by stepping back from our beliefs and emotions in any field from journalism to particle physics."
Why the Left is Afraid of Objectivity: The Great Struggle Between Truth and Lies

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The left has been telling women for a generation that they're our best chance to build our hopes for justice and equality into a new edifice of rights and protections. Their support for transgenderism proves it all a lie."
Transgenderism's War on Women Betrays Left's Claims to Champion Our Rights

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Last week, three letters signed by 87 different investment firms and shareholders asked Nike, FedEx, and PepsiCo to end their business relationships with the Washington Redskins until the team decides to change its name."
Nike Caves to Activist Investors, Removes All "Redskins" Gear From Website
First rule of holes, schmuck! First rule of holes!
Ron Johnson Defends Proposal to Eliminate Columbus Day Holiday
"The outdoors and public lands suffer from the same systemic racism that the rest of our society does."
National Parks Are Latest Target of Systemic Racism Claim in America
"Despite this seemingly cute connection between the movie and our mascot's name, the fact is that the movie's portrayal of the American Civil War, postwar reconstruction, and slavery is offensive."
Boston University Mulling New Name For Mascot Over Connection to Gone With the Wind
"The Brooklyn 99 star is canceled for calling out black supremacy on Twitter."
Terry Crews' Fight Against Black Supremacy
"It can be hard for ordinary Americans who oppose the radical agenda of the woke left to know how to fight back. Here are a few practical ideas."
5 Ways You Can Fight Back in the Cultural Civil War
"Why historians should not endorse it."
The Myth of Righteous Vandalism
Christian Toto: "Artists are under increasing pressure to tell certain stories from certain viewpoints."
Will Super Woke Hollywood Crush TV's Golden Age of Streaming
"The tale of the gay Jewish Confederate soldier who sculpted some of America's most notable memorials and statues just goes to show how dogmatic and shortsighted today's iconoclasts really are."
The Artistic Value of a Statue Is More Important Than Its History

HITHER & YON
Dennis Prager: "The damage the left is doing to so many blacks -- to their moral compass, to their happiness and to their relations with their white fellow citizens -- is not in the realm of 'may do.' It is done."
The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back a Half-Century
"If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a political platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world."
Ricky Gervais on His Seismic Golden Globes Speech: "People Were Tired of the Hypocrisy"
"As issues with facial-recognition software show, many issues of race and equality can't be solved by mob-directed national 'debates.'"
Faulty Facial Scanners Reveal: A Racialized, Mob-Censored "Debate" is Worse Than Useless
"How typical of the Marxist mind to define a term only in terms of an attack on its critics."
Cultural Marxism and Its Conspirators: Part 2
"The agenda of the Black Lives Matter organization goes far beyond issues of police brutality -- it opposes free markets and two-parent families."
Black Lives Matter Opposes Two Huge Forces for Black Success: Family and Capitalism
"July 4, 2020, will be an Independence Day celebration like never before. In fact, it won't be a celebration at all, but merely a commemoration of what we have lost and hopefully a reminder of what we need to fight for all over again after 244 years."
We Can No Longer Celebrate Our Independence. We Must Fight for It Again

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.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Given the state of the union on this Independence Day 2020, I take you back to April of 1976 for a little bit of hope and a powerful metaphor.

Posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:31 AM Comments

Tonight's ONT Is Down In The Dumps

—WeirdDave

Once again the media folder is filling up faster than the ONT is bleeding off content, so here's an attempt to catch up!

Posted by WeirdDave at 09:53 PM Comments

Open Thread

—Ace

Thanks to redridinghood, I think.

So Gavin Newsom is closing down restaurants and bars and destroying family-owned businesses all over California. Oh wait, here’s one that’s still open! 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/LwTVRejYBL
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 2, 2020

Tomorrow will just be open threads. I need to chillax.

Posted by Ace at 08:36 PM Comments

This Cannot Go On

—Ace

The media -- including the very liberal pseudoright media like the New York Post (Seth Mandel's old paper, right?) -- immediately declared that the pregnant woman defending herself from unending menace was to blame:

White woman ALLEGEDLY bumps into black teen. Black teen calls her racist, her black mom then harasses the white couple for several minutes/threatens to beat their ass, they try to drive away, black woman follows then hits their car, white woman then gets out of car and pulls gun https://t.co/5RIAc0BIzv
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) July 2, 2020

You know, in most states, anyone in a physical altercation has a duty to retreat before using force.

But if the person keeps trying to retreat, and an aggressor continues pursuing -- not permitting retreat -- as little miss Struggle Session did here -- then the duty to retreat is satisfied and then someone can proceed to using force.

The white woman was arrested.

Because of course.

The cops have decided to make us each fight for our own lives.

There is no help coming but self-help.

So what the fuck do you expect us to do? Just... go along with any street vigilante who decides to subject us to an involuntary, physically-coerced struggle session?

Just say, "Ah well, the permanent brain damage I suffer from this savage gang-assault is a small price to pay for the cause of ending White Supremacy?"

Fuck you. That's false imprisonment -- and people are allowed to use a reasonable amount of force to free themselves from it.

This is getting very dangerous. People have no choice but to resort to self-help -- force -- to defend themselves, and they're going to start doing so.

And don't count on having a lot of SJWs on the jury to convict them for defending their lives.

Politicians -- mayors, chiefs of police, prosecutors -- need to make it plain to the rioters, street-beaters, car-blockers, car-attackers, looters and shooters that no one is required by the law to make themselves a martyr for Black Lives Matter and yes, in some situations, deadly force to escape from some situations is legal and will be permitted.

But they won't -- they don't want to upset people.

So they'll say nothing... and then the shooting will start in earnest.

The police better put the Racial Vengeance Vigilantes in hard check before the Counter-Vigilantes start traveling in packs.

If police will not maintain civil order, "irregulars" will deputize themselves to provide their own dubious services.

On a lighter, more optimistic note:

Good to hear this! RT @KyleKashuv: This is the most important video on the internet right now. pic.twitter.com/oqRdtDfsuN
— K (@daxam) June 28, 2020

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 07:48 PM Comments

Nasty Racist Bitch Who Announced She'd Stab You In the Face for Having "the Caucasity" to Say "All Lives Matter" Loses Her Job Offer From Accounting Firm

—Ace

I saw the liberal NeverTrumpers virtue signalling that they think this cancellation was wrong, wrong, wrong, and they want to be on record as saying It's Just Not Fair!

You know what none of these people objected to?

The fact that on Monday, Twitch, Reddit, and YouTube conspired in a coordinated way to purge and deplatform pro-Trump accounts.

They always object to the right cancelling the left -- but quietly applaud when the left cancels the right.

Video streaming platform Twitch temporarily suspended President Donald Trump's channel and social media site Reddit banned a longtime forum used by his supporters in separate actions Monday aimed at curtailing hateful content that come as the tech industry grapples with its handling of the president.

Here was how Wired headlined the unprecedented mass deplatforming:

Social Media Drops the Hammer on Team Trump

It's now so out in the open that even the tech monopolists' leftwing allies don't feel the need to even put out the fig-leaf of cover for them anymore. They just admit -- almost brag -- about what their tech monopolist pals are doing.

In fact, the only people still lying to pretend what the tech monopolies are doing is not coordinated political interference is the alleged "conservative" media.

The leftwing media is more honest about this than the corrupt "conservative" media.

YouTube also announced purge of pro-Trump accounts on Monday.

Quick, I need the Corporate Shills at National Review to explain to me how monopolists acting in a coordinated fashion to promote one business (politics is a business) over another is somehow not a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and even if it is, who cares, let's just pretend that law doesn't exist because we believe in Laws Not Men.

Also this week: Someone posted on Facebook a video of liberals announcing that they'd be voting for Trump. FaceBook immediately deleted it.

Oh, and the dean of a nursing school just got fired for daring to say, "Everybody's life matters!"

Any protest from the Virtue Signaler Brigade?

No?

Crickets?

Taking a "Wait and See Attitude" on this one, huh, instead of popping off on Twitter?

How expected.

Not a word of protest from the Virtue Signalers who are so upset everytime a nasty, violent leftwinger gets some of the Cancel Culture that they themselves support.

Every single time a leftist gets a taste of their own cancel culture, the same assholes whine that "we're better than this," but never say a word about the constant harassments, threats, and purges that are visited on the right.

So to hell with this bitch.

And to hell with the ugly, desperate worms of the pseudoright desperately trying to social climb among their bosom pals of the Twitter Left.

I'm not trying to gain Social Credits from the Left, Seth and Bethany. I don't have to virtue signal about how my heart aches every time a leftist angel gets her wings clipped.

If you only object when people on the left (including your fake Republican twitter pals) get hit with cancellation -- that's not "principled." That's just partisan -- that's just you being on the other side.

People who admit they're on the left also only object to leftwingers being cancelled.

How are you any different, David French? Bethany Shondak? Seth Mandel?

You always are trying to grade-grub credit for "going against my own side," but you never do -- You're on the left. You're literally always on the left's side.

Posted by Ace at 06:25 PM Comments

Joe Biden: Senile And Feeble-minded And Hard-left

—CBD

Open Thread

—Ace

Kayleigh McEnany: I'm Stunned. I Was Asked 12 Questions About the Confederate Flag, and Not a Single Question About People Being Killed Due to the Riots

—Ace

Boy Was Trump's Speech "Dark," Huh?

—Ace

lol

—Ace

Holy Shit Is S.E. Cupp a Stupid Bint

—Ace

Open Thread

—Ace

Mostly Peaceful BLM Protesters Shoot and Kill an 8 Year Old Girl

—Ace

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report - 7/6/20

—J.J. Sefton

Sunday Overnight Open Thread (7/5/20)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Gun Thread: Day After Independence Day Edition [Weasel]

—Open Blogger

ATTENTION NoVaMoMe 2020!!

Food Thread: A Lamb Chop A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

—CBD

First-World Problems...Part Còig-deug

—CBD

The Anti-Trump Left Pulls Out All The Stops With Their Lies About The President's Mt. Rushmore Speech: "Divisive," Racial Division," "Flouts Virus Rules," "Ominous"Apparently They Didn't Read It!

—CBD

Sunday Morning Book Thread 07-05-2020

—OregonMuse

EMT 7/5/20

—krakatoa

Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/4/20) Happy Independence Day Edition

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

The Occasional Fishing Thread, Best Laid Plans Edition [Bandersnatch]

—Open Blogger

Saturday Afternoon Chess thread 07-04-2020

—OregonMuse

Ace of Spades Pet Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread, [KT]

—Open Blogger

It's Independence Day! [KT]

—Open Blogger

Saturday Morning Coffee Break

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

EMT 7/4/20

—krakatoa

The Itsy Bitsy ONT Went Up The Waterspout

—WeirdDave

Open Thread

—Ace

The Conservative Case For Mocking SoiBois

—CBD

Why Yes, That Is A Pig In Flight! Judge Agrees With The Firing Of Political Apointees

—CBD

Pre-4th of July Open Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

CNN: Study Finds That Hydroxychloroquine Helped Patients Survive Coronavirus, Cutting Death Rates In Half

—Ace

Open Thread

—Ace

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report - 7/3/20

—J.J. Sefton

Tonight's ONT Is Down In The Dumps

—WeirdDave

Open Thread

—Ace

This Cannot Go On

—Ace

Nasty Racist Bitch Who Announced She'd Stab You In the Face for Having "the Caucasity" to Say "All Lives Matter" Loses Her Job Offer From Accounting Firm

The Anti-Trump Left Pulls Out All The Stops With Their Lies About The President's Mt. Rushmore Speech: "Divisive," Racial Division," "Flouts Virus Rules," "Ominous"
Apparently They Didn't Read It!