Clinton Mega-Donor Ed Buck, Who Has Had Two People Die of Drug Overdose In His House, Is Finally Arrested After Third Man is Nearly Killed by Drugs

—Ace of Spades

My suspicion is that he has a very weird Gay Angel of Death compulsion.

He seems to get off on injecting people with drugs and watching them die.

This last guy reportedly tried to escape from Buck's house to get help, but Buck stopped him.

In 2017, a young African American man, Gemmel Moore, 26, was found dead inside the home of Democratic donor Ed Buck under suspicious circumstances.

There were demands for an investigation and protests. But in the end, authorities said there was not enough evidence to charge Buck with a crime.

Then in January 2018, a second man, Timothy Dean, 55, was found dead in Buck’s West Hollywood apartment. There were more protests and demands for action, but Buck remained free and denied any wrongdoing in either case through his attorney.

Now, prosecutors say a third man tried to escape from Buck's home in September after being drugged. They claim Buck prevented the man from getting help.

This time, authorities took action.

Buck was arrested and charged this week with operating a drug house, with prosecutors calling him a violent sexual predator who preys on men struggling with addiction and homelessness.

The wealthy gay-rights activist is accused of injecting a 37-year-old man, who overdosed but survived, with methamphetamine on Sept. 11. Buck's attorney could not immediately be reached for comment, but activists who have long demanded action say they are relieved by the arrest.

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The latest man found in Buck's home, identified in court papers as Joe Doe, went to the apartment on Sept. 4, where Buck "personally and deliberately" administered a large dose of methamphetamine, prosecutors said. Concerned he was overdosing, the man left Buck's apartment to get medical help.

He returned to Buck's apartment a week later, on Sept. 11, when Buck again injected him with "two dangerously large" doses of methamphetamine, prosecutors said.

But this time, prosecutors say, Buck thwarted the man's attempts to leave. The man eventually fled the apartment and called 911 from a gas station. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. Sheriff's investigators found hundreds of photographs in Buck's home of men in compromising positions.

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Buck is accused of luring his victims into his home and then baiting them with drugs, money and shelter.

"From his home, in a position of power, Buck manipulates his victims into participating in his sexual fetishes," prosecutors wrote in court papers. "These fetishes include supplying and personally administering dangerously large doses of narcotics to his victims. ... Not deterred by the senseless deaths of Moore and Dean, the defendant nearly killed a third victim last week."

Was Buck's status as a gay activist and Democrat donor (investing heavily in local politicians) and Friend of Hillary's what protected him for so long? No one knows, but the answer is "Clearly Yes."

While Buck once identified himself as a conservative Republican, according to the Los Angeles Times, he became a national figure when he spearheaded the effort to impeach Arizona's Republican Gov. Evan Mecham in the 1980s. He later made large donations to Democrats, including more than $500,000 since 2007, according to court documents filed by Moore's mother in a wrongful death suit pertaining to her son.

At the federal level, those include contributions to prominent Washington lawmakers as well as 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. At the local level, Buck has donated more than $51,000 to Los Angeles city and county officials, candidates, and affiliated parties dating to 2008.

In 2012, Buck contributed $100 to the campaign for Jackie Lacey for Los Angeles County District Attorney, and four years later, gave $1,400 to Eric Garcetti for Mayor of Los Angeles. Both Lacey and Garcetti still hold their titles.

The highest contribution was $13,000, according to the court papers, to former West Hollywood Mayor John Duran when he ran for county supervisor in 2014.

Georgia Man Kills Three Youths With Semiautomatic Assault Weapon
PS, The Three Youths Were Trying to Rob His Home and Were Shooting at Him

—Ace of Spades

Citizens never stop criminals with guns, and certainly not when using Hate Guns like semi-auto rifles.

Georgia homeowner shot and killed three teens as they approached his residence with their faces covered, authorities said.

The masked teens -- a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds -- approached three residents around 4 a.m. Monday at the front yard of a home just outside Conyers and tried to rob them, the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office said.

One of the would-be robbers took out a gun and fired shots at them before one of the residents returned fire, authorities said.

"The victims of the attempted robbery were all uninjured, but the three attempted robbery suspects were all shot during the exchange of gunfire and succumbed to their injuries, one on scene and two at a local hospital after being transported," the sheriff's department said in a news release.

One neighbor heard someone asking for help, he told CNN affiliate WSB.

"I heard a guy yelling for help. 'Help me, help me, I'm dying, I'm dying, help me, help me," Brian Jenkins told the station.

lolgf

NYT Employed Racist, Homophobic Fact-Checker

—Ace of Spades

A long, long history of racist and homophobic abuse.

But of course the rules are different for New York Times employees.

A researcher and fact checker for the New York Times has a history of using racist and homophobic slurs on Twitter, according to a journalist for Newsmax. Gina Cherelus -- who on her LinkedIn page describes herself as "a researcher and fact-checker for The New York Times' Opinion section" -- appears to have deleted the offensive Tweets on Tuesday. But some were still accessible on her Twitter account.

But Newsmax host John Cardillo has posted screen hots of tweets apparently from Cherelus’ account in which she used words like "faggots" and "dykes" while also referring disparagingly to Asians, Latinos, and "white people."

...

Some of Cherelus’s tweets apparently date as far back as 2011. In one screenshot, Cherelus wrote, "Nahh, too many dykes on my floor."

In another apparent tweet, she wrote: "I know, I'd rather that too :/. Not faggots smh lol."

Cherelus appears to have used the term "wetback" in one tweet and made repeated disparaging remarks about white people.

"Some white people really just don't get it… Trying so hard to argue against something you JUST DON'T GET," one screen shot shows.

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, this exit question that answers itself:

Kamala The Kop: Just Because There's No Proof Against Brett Kavanaugh Doesn't Mean He's Not Guilty

—Ace of Spades

Spoken like a true conspiracy theorist.

"Someone should investigate this because the fact that something has not been proven, it doesn’t mean it didn't occur, right?" Harris said.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"And others have questioned the purchase because the mansion is quite close to the ocean and what with all the Democrats running around with their hair on fire about global warming and climate change and how we only have 12 years left before America's coastal regions all get flooded out by rising sea levels, obviously somebody's either lying or not practicing what they're preaching.

"But speaking of not practicing what they're preaching, remember it was Obama who was the leader of the party who kept trying to shove "diversity" down the country's throat for eight years, and how we were all racists if we didn't agree, and oh by the way, let's just open up the borders and let everyone in who wants to collect free food, free medical care, and free education for life, and don't bother doing any actual vetting. Because, you know, diversity is our strength. I don't know how many times I've heard that sermon from Obama and the progs.

"So now that Obama is out of office, and here is his big chance to put his money where his mouth is, what does he do? He sets up shop in one of those most NON-diverse communities in the entire damn country. Martha's Vineyard is, like, 98.6% white and probably the only black or Hispanic people are tending the gardens, collecting the garbage, and keeping the swimming pools clean. In other words, when push comes to shove, the Obamas prefer to live in an area where they're surrounded by white guys. Who no doubt exhibit all of the characteristics of 'whiteness' and 'white privilege' that progressives say they hate. The progs love diversity, but what they mean is diversity for thee, but not for me."

Politics Has Been Good To The Obamas:

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Another Prog Clown Gets Owned By The Bee:

Guys, guys. It IS a joke. As the guy who photoshopped it, I'm flattered you thought it was real though. https://t.co/8VqUnzqpyu

— Ethan Nicolle (@AXECOP) September 16, 2019

Discovered Footage of Joe Biden Taking Down Corn Pop:

Our National Media Is Garbage, Part LXXXIV:

Donald Trump stole pancakes and forgot a relative was dead while visiting family, cousin claims https://t.co/ITpUz9iUui

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 16, 2019

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Monday's celebs: Evangeline Lilly and Aidan Turner who not only were in Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies, they were also a love interest. Right. Like an Elf would ever fall in love with a hairy, smelly little Dwarf.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

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

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

Updates and new requests:

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

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

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

8/22-Prayers for Hans O’Lo’s family members: For sure hands of the hand surgeon who will try to save my mom’s hand when she visits next week, and for mom’s full recovery thereafter. For continued improvement of my sister’s condition (praise to Him for so much improvement already!). For a peaceful resolution to son the Eldest’s recent challenges. For strength and blessings as my daughter begins her new adventure in graduate school so far from home. (Update below, under Praise reports.)

8/28-CJO asks for prayers for his wife (NJO). Her doctors just discovered that she may have breast cancer.

9/4-Fox2 asks for prayers for his friend MaryBeth, who entered eternal life yesterday, and her friend and caregiver, Norm, and her family.

9/12-Nic asks for prayers for his daughter Addie who had a couple of seizures over the holiday weekend. She had never had them before and she is starting nursing school so timing is terrible. Pray for healing and no more seizures or at least cause and treatment available.

9/15-Hrothgar asks for prayers for a dear friend (Roxanne) and her husband Terry. Terry is scheduled for a 30 day cycle of chemo and radiation.

Praise reports:

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

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

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

- Hans O’Lo - Thank you, Horde, for the prayers! He truly heard them! Mom's hand will not require surgery. Pray for successful therapy and may regaining mobility and strength in her hand come swiftly. Continuing thanks for sister's health. Son the Eldest was indeed blessed by our Lord and, and our precious Daughter is off to a great start.

Requests for continued prayer:

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

Other continuing health issues and requested prayers for healing:

- Fixeupperupper’s mothers-kidney function.

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

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

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

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

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

- Hrothgar’s SIL, for diabetes related neuropathy.

- Poster ET going through a difficult time.

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

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

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

Job needs and concerns:

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

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

- PDX Republican needs sedentary PT job.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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—CBD

Chancelor G. I. Golovkin
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The Morning Report - 9/18/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Midweek and all I can say is, I like the cut of this Corey Lewandowski fellow's jib, and wonder if he has a newsletter. The former campaign manager for President Trump was hauled before Jerry Nadler and the House Judiciary Committee, for the third time, for absolutely no reason other than to be harassed and used as a prop for the media. In the event, just the opposite occurred. Lewandowski held his ground and used snark and the truth (but mostly the truth) to smack around the likes of Nadler, Sheila Jackass-Lee, Hank "Tippy" Johnson and President for Life between the hours of 1:30:00 and 1:30:10 PM Eric Swallowswell.

Nadler says he might hold Lewandowski in contempt, which, considering the dried pastrami-, bobka- and booger-flecked maw from whence it came, is ironic to a level that almost staggers the imagination. The corrupt corpulent creep opened up a can of worms by insisting on playing impeachment games and it's blowing up in his flop-sweat bedewed visage. And with the NY Times' sliming of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Democrats have caught impeachment fever to the point where one wonders who the next Republican and/or Trump appointee is that's going to have that threat hurled at them, hollow as it is. At least for the present, since the Democrats want to impeach the hell out of America as founded. In any case none of this plays well in Peoria.

It only indicates the absolute emptiness of that Party with regards to any political platform, except OrangeManBad, AmericaEvil, Destroy! Yes, as disgusting as all of this is to endure and fun in a way to watch Roadrunner-like as the American Left Wile E. Coyotes itself off a cliff holding a case of lit TNT with a 50-ton boulder over its head, the fun and games have consequences. In the here and now, real lives are being messed with. I honestly cannot even imagine the atmosphere around Justice Kavanaugh's dinner table every night. For what they are putting him and his family through is an inexcusable crime. Lest we forget Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn as well as Andy Ngo, the Covington kids and any one of us who have to bite our tongues at work, school or wherever for fear of blackballing, ostracism or worse.

And not that I want to totally kill a buzz, remember that after 2024, please G-d, President Trump will exit the Oval Office for the last time. Anyone who thinks that the Democrat Party is going to somehow magically revert back to it's mid-70s to 9/11/01 Dr. Jekyll status is whistling past a graveyard of Killing Fields proportions. This country has been split in two. One day there will be another Democrat president and he/she/xer/xuxa is going to make the Obama 8-year reign of error look like a walk in the park. Jeez, I need a drink.

CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION
• Impeachment Hearing Quickly Devolves Into Chaos As Lewandowski Refuses To Answer Questions
  
• Lewandowski Announces Senate Run During Trump Impeachment Testimony
  
• "President Swalwell": Corey Lewandowski Mocks Failed Presidential Candidate in Hearing
  
• Lewandowski Slams Hillary During Impeachment Hearing: I Didn't Delete My Emails
  
• Democrats' Impeachment Obsession Is a Danger to Democracy

  KAVANAUGH PERSECUTION 2.0

  Now to this travesty where "Squad" diddly-squatter Pelvis Pressley introduces an impeachment resolution against Brett Kavanaugh which draws the panic-stricken ire of Dick "friend of James Hodgkinson" Durbin in the Senate, the GOP finally calls out the Dems for this shit-show, Ol' Yeller Levin warns what this is all about, Daniel Greenfield stomps on Slim's Slimes as does Michael Goodwin, and a good long look at the impeachment endgame of the Democrat-Left.

• Pelvis Pressley to Introduce Kavanaugh Impeachment Resolution; Dick Turdbin Retorts "Get Real
  
• (In)Credible Allegations
  
• Republicans Call Out "Sad and Embarrassing" Attacks on Justice Kavanaugh (took them long enough - jjs)
  
• Ol' Yeller Levin: Dems and Media Trying to "Intimidate and Threaten a Supreme Court Justice"
  
• Greenfield: Hating Kavanaugh, Killing Journalism
  
• Goodwin: The Alternative "Facts" of the NY Times' Kavanaugh Story
  
• Trump, Kavanaugh, Lewandowski and Our Malignant Left

  CIVIL WAR 2.0

  Thank you, Obama and Holder!

• NY Cops In Shootout with Career Criminal... Onlookers Yell Death Wishes At Cops

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION, BORDER SECURITY

  Montgomery County, MD yields yet another illegal alien rapist. Let's see if the county cooperates or goes insurrectionist. Meanwhile ICE nabs an illegal on the lam for 20 year on a murder rap, Trump's over the border asylum policy having a real impact much to the Left's angry dismay and licenses for illegals is political poison in swing states.

• ICE Slaps Detainer Request On Salvadoran Migrant Accused Of Rape In Montgomery County, MD
  
• ICE Apprehends Previously Deported Illegal Alien Who Was On the Lam for Murder for 20 Years
  
• Waiting In Juarez: How Trump's "Remain in Mexico" Program Could Ruin the Smugglers' Trade
  
• Poll: 3-in-4 Swing Voters Oppose Democrats' Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens

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

  Ed Buck gets pinched for yet another OD'd boy in his home (I saw Unconscious Twinks open for Peter Allen at the Bottom Line in '77) and the raging hypocrisy of a 1/1064th honest Oklahoma land-crab.

• Dem Donor Ed Buck Arrested After Third Man Overdoses at His LA Home
  
• Fauxca-Has-Been Warren Opposes Lobbyists' Donations... Despite Accepting $95,000 in 2012, 2018

  POLITICS

  Polls have Joey Bidet still on top and Blotto sinking even lower, Dem Dan Lipinski, one of the last so-called blue dog Dems ripping Toothy McBigTits for supporting his Maoist challenger, the "Squad" angry about GOP ads that quote them accurately, they're going to need a bigger stage for October's debate, Dem contenders go insane, Working Families Commies ditch Sandersnista for Elizabeth Pemmican, Blotto's sick racialism, Trump boasts of renewed energy sector and warns what can happen if Dems regain power, this Kirsten Sinema is quite surprising in a good way and the Progs are going apeshit, and Salena Zito on swing state fracking and energy policy as a boon for PDT.

• Poll: Joe Bidet Tops Democrat Presidential Field in New York
  
• Post-Debate Poll: Blotto Finds Out Gun Grabbing Does Not Work, Bidet Maintains Lead
  
• Dem Dan Lipinski Fires Back At Toothy McBigTits AOC: Illinois Doesn't Want "a Fifth Member of the Squad"
  
• Usual Suspects Cry Foul as GOP Makes "Squad" the Focus of Campaign Ads Going Into 2020
  
• October Democratic Debate Lineup Could Be Larger Than September's
  
• Democrat Contenders Go Rogue
  
• Radical Working Families Party Backs Fauxca-Has-Been for 2020 After Endorsing Sandersnista in 2016
  
• Blotto Beto's Racist City Upon a Hill
  
• Trump: Good Thing We Ended Obama's "War on Energy," But Dems Would Revive It
  
• Arizona Progressives Seek to Censure Sinema for "Disappointing" Voting Record
  
• Zito: The Crackers and Frackers Could Hold the Keys to 2020

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

  On the salutary effect of Trump's ditching of the daily press briefing, MFM sez "Trump and Kavanaugh evil! William Kennedy Smith? Never heard of him." Also another victory for free speech and religious liberty.

• It's Been Six Months Since Trump Ended the Hecklers' Briefings... And the Country Is Fine
  
• The Media's Spotty Record on Sexual Assault Cases (William Kennedy Smith, anyone? - jjs)
  
• Federal Judge Rules In Favor of Student Who Passed Out Valentines With the Words, "Jesus Loves You"

  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Father of Parkland victim speaks the truth, MSNBC has zero clue about America or how to run a rigged poll, evidently, a look at the raison-d'etre of Dem gun-grabbing, if it wasn't abortion or open borders or welfare for illegals, Blotto Beto may give Trump a 57-state landslide, don't be fooled by Georgia Dem senate candidate's words, and a Georgia homeowner mows down masked home invaders with evil pew-pew.

• Father of Parkland Victim Says Guns Aren't the Problem, Liberal Policies Are
  
• MSNBC Poll About Guns Backfires Spectacularly
  
• Why Soft-on-Crime Democrats Are Tough on "Gun Violence"
  
• Blotto Beto's Gift to the GOP
  
• Shot: GA Dem Senate Hopeful Sez O'Rourke's Gun Confiscation Not "Possible or Lawful" (don't be fooled, she's still a gun-grabbing tyrant - jjs)
  
• Chaser: Georgia Homeowner Uses "Semi-Automatic Rifle" To Return Fire Against Three Masked Attackers... None Survived

  ABORTION

  Y'know, for someone who claims to know the Bible better than its Author, this Mayor Buttplug fellow is kind of annoying, no?

• Cleveland: Fetus-Collecting Abortionist Connected To Unlicensed Abortion Facility In Mayor Buttplug's Town

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  Fire inside a Russky bio warfare research lab but nothing to see here, it's all under control... Meanwhile more on war and rumors of war with Iran as a result of the confirmed attack on KSA oil refinery. Look, the Iranians have got to go since they view Armageddon as a rational foreign policy aim. The question is how do we remove that cancer without putting our boots on the ground? Several links argue the differing viewpoints plus the Farsis are claiming that they allegedly almost shot missiles at our military installations instead of merely downing a drone. Elsewhere, Paul Joseph Watson's latest on the Hong Kong protests, FBI arrests a Chi-Com spy, US sanctions Venezuelans, Israeli elections still muddled, Humberto Fontova on the Trump-Bolsonaro alliance vis a vis Chile's Commie ex-prexy and speculating on a coming US-EU conflict.

• Explosion Starts Fire at Russky Cold War-Era Lab Housing Smallpox, Ebola Viruses
  
• Attacks on Saudi Oil Refinery Came From Southwest Iran, US Official Says
  
• Mike Pence to Iran: US Military Is "Locked and Loaded" After Saudi Oil Strike
  
• IRGC Claims It Was Ready to Fire Missiles at US Targets During the Drone Shoot-Down in June
  
• Point: Quagmires Won't Make America Great Again
  
• Counterpoint: The Assumption About Iran That Needs to Go
  
• No Hope in Hong Kong?
  
• Watson Video: The Truth About the Hong Kong Protests
  
• FBI Arrests Chinese Official for Visa Fraud
  
• US Targets Three People, 16 Groups in New Venezuela Sanctions
  
• Exit Polls Show No Clear Winner in Israeli Election
  
• Fontova: Trump Supports Brazilian President, Exposes Chile's "Hillary"
  
• When the European Union Becomes An Empire, Its Clash With the United States Is Inevitable

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

  No Deep State war mongers or saboteurs, please.

• Trump Reveals His Top Five Picks To Replace John Bolton As National Security Adviser

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

  ISIS goes after Hamas. Pass the shawarma.

• No Love Lost Among Jihadists

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  More on the Left's war on the gig economy, i.e. things that it does not control or tax the shit out of, Warren Buffet really is a slimy, greedy bastard, isn't he? Also, the troubles with GM, union and otherwise.

• About 300 Uber, Lyft Drivers Protest Against "Unfair Treatment," Bringing NYC Traffic To Standstill
  
• "Create Jobs In This Country": Sen. Josh Hawley Dings Google, Uber For Not Investing In the US
  
• Warren Buffett's Charities Are Making Him Richer by Funding Shady Attacks on Berkshire Hathaway Competitors (this guy makes Soros look penny-ante - jjs)
  
• Generous Motors No More

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Depressing. I can't even...

• Florida Man Kills Family, Dumps Bodies In Adjacent State And Confesses After Crashing His Van

  CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL, COVER UP

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  Paralleling the war on all opposition to the totalitarian left, look what happens to those who oppose the destruction of what's left that is good of NYC's schools in favor of racialist madness.

• Get On Board or Be Called a "Bigot": Dilemma Facing Parents Against NYC B-of-E Carranaza's "Diversity"

  HEALTHCARE

  Another good outing from Betsy McCaughey who knows this subject well.

• McCaughey: Democrats' Biggest Healthcare Lies

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  Obama pines for Uranus, animal rights activists want you to die and are willing to do the killing, and "decarbonizing" the economy will kill us all.

• Obama on Climate Kid Greta Thunberg: "One of Our Planet's Greatest Advocates" (and what planet is that, champ? - jjs)
  
• Animal Rights Extremists Attack Young Woman For Helping Feed Her Community In Legal Whale Hunt
  
• The Real Cost of Decarbonizing the Economy

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

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

  Johns Hopkins shrink commits career suicide, and what's a little ass cancer compared to social justice?

• John Hopkins Psychiatrist: "Gender Confusions Are Mostly Driven by Psychological and Psychosocial Problems"
  
• Does LGBTQ Cultural Supremacy Enable High-Risk Behavior?

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  Christian Toto on more open borders agitprop and Lloyd Billingsley with a fascinating and heretofore silenced history about actual Commie blacklisting in Hollywood back in the 30s and 40s. Stick that in your Howard Zinn and smoke it.

• Toto: Hollywood Doubles Down on Open Border Propaganda
  
• Back Story to Hollywood's Anti-Trump Blacklist

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

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (9/17/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

"I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT," "I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations." Richard Stallman

Quote II

“It’s this idea that you are not your body. You are an extension of the power that created the whole universe. That’s drag. We are all God in drag,” he said. “And that is a radical thought for most people to envelope, because the ego says, ‘No. I am whatever it says on my driver’s license.” RuPaul

Quote III

"There's a good model for this in World War II, the home front efforts that regular Americans made regardless of their political leanings or their socioeconomic backgrounds, driving at 35 miles per hour," Foer said. "We had a 94 percent income tax, highest rate income tax. We had rations on foods and a really wonderful fireside chat that I could never imagine our president giving, but FDR gave at the time." Jonathan Safran Foer

Quote IV

“We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp.” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)

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Ken Mulhollon is my kind of Educator. He did what somebody's father should have done a long time ago.

The mother of a student who was tackled by a football coach while running onto the field during a game earlier this month at Wilmot High School wants to see the coach fired, according to a report.

The Kenosha News is reporting that Rebecca Langel would like the school to take action against the assistant coach who tackled her son after he and another student ran onto the field while the game was ongoing.

Video of the incident, which was captured by a fan in attendance and shared on social media sites, including Barstool.com, shows the coach bringing down one student around his neck. The coach then dragged the student by his shirt for a few yards before escorting him over the bench area.

Rebecca Langel should be ashamed of her son and her parenting skills. Great video of the event, you really should check it out.

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Boy oh boy, this will be riveting television. Or not.

Pose actress and star of the next installment of American Horror Story Angelica Ross will host the national 2020 Presidential Candidate Forum on LGBTQ Issues. Confirmed to participate are Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Sestak, Elizabeth Warren and Marianne Williamson. The forum is presented by GLAAD, One Iowa, The Gazette and The Advocate and will be livestreamed from Coe College’s Sinclair Auditorium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 20 at 7 P.M. CT. Country artist and contestant on season 11 of The Voice Billy Gilman is set to perform the National Anthem at the event.

Free "transitional drugs & hormone therapy. Free to low cost addadictome surgery and reduced clothing to help the new Trans.

No word if the bath house scene will be cleaned up. How many shots will you drink when you hear the word homophobe?

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0-2 in his last two elections, Robert Francis O'Rourke wants to be remembered for something. Well mission accomplished fantastic gun salesman.

In response to Beto O’Rourke’s “Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47” threat, a Tempe, Arizona gun store owner ran a “Beto Specials” promotion the next morning – selling out of both types of rifles by that afternoon.

When O’Rourke made the claim during Thursday night’s Democrat presidential candidate debate, Alpha Dog Firearms Owner Matt Boggs was outraged, he says in an interview with The HolloNet:

“I saw the comments that he made, and I was kinda like, ‘You know what: the Hell with this guy.’”

Boggs said O’Rourke’s made determined to sell more guns – even if it meant losing money on them. So, the next morning he announced his “Beto Specials” on AR15 and AK47 rifles on his store’s Facebook page:

Beto O'Rourke said "hell yes we're taking your AR's". Well Beto, we're discounting AR15's to such a low price that EVERY AMERICAN can afford one. How about the low low price of just $349.99? Yeah, that works. Available online only. Go to www.alphadogfirearmsaz.com and look for all our AR15 and AK47 deals under the BETO SPECIALS tab. Deals and discounts will be added fresh all day!

Alpha Dog Firearms was so overwhelmed with customers – selling 200 rifles in two hours – that Boggs had to post an afternoon update on Facebook:

UPDATE: SOLD OUT. More deals will be on the website soon. Y'all broke our internet today!!!

Boggs and Alpha Dog Firearms are no strangers to colorful promotions. On Sunday, Alpha Dog hosted an “Area 51 Invasion Training” event at a local shooting range. “Come out to the Alien Shoot,” Boggs says in a Facebook video live from the event.

I was speaking with an acquaintance one evening last week. We ended up talking about the whack jobs running for president. My friend basically said this, "I have one AR-15. I'm going to go out and buy 2 or 3 more just to piss them off."

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I could have told you. And if you didn't believe me, you would have believed bluebell. Knives made of shit don't work. DUH.

Discouraged by the current era of fake news and alternative facts, Eren was inspired to recreate the frozen fecal knife from Wade's famous account as a way to illustrate the importance of data and scientific testing. He and his colleague, Michelle Bebber, decided to use their own feces for the experiments, rather than foisting the burden on some lowly graduate student. For eight days, Eren followed a diet rich in meats and fats, typical of what an Arctic diet would be: beef, turkey, salmon, perch, meatballs, sausages, salami, eggs, and the like.

"It was tougher than I thought having that much protein and so many fatty acids exclusively," he said. Meanwhile, Bebber kept to her typical Western diet as a control: yogurt, lentils and rice, cheeseburgers, bagels and cream cheese, spaghetti, and so forth. Then they each collected and froze their feces whenever they had bowel movements.

"It's funny, because we've got this amazing lab," said Eren, but for that week, "I'm not in the lab—I'm in my house pooping in a bag, making knives out of my own feces. It was sort of depressing."

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There are many of us who don't need it faster. We need it more available, consistent and reasonably priced. Faster Wi-Fi officially launch.

The next generation of Wi-Fi has been trickling out over the past year, but this week, its launch is going to accelerate. The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization that oversees implementation of the Wi-Fi standard, is launching its official Wi-Fi 6 certification program. That might sound boring, but it means the Wi-Fi 6 standard is truly ready to go, and tech companies will soon be able to advertise their products — mostly brand new ones — as certified to properly support Wi-Fi 6.

Wi-Fi 6 includes a bunch of new technologies that combine together to make Wi-Fi more efficient. This is particularly important because of just how many devices we all have these days — it’s not unusual for a family to have a dozen or more gadgets all connected to a Wi-Fi network at once. “The home scenario today looks like the dense deployment of yesterday,” says Kevin Robinson, marketing leader for the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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Moar Central Control from our Comrade Bernie. Spend, spend and control, control, control. This time housing.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has released an ambitious housing plan that stays true to the candidate's interventionist brand of democratic socialism.

In a speech to trade union members in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, Sanders laid out his vision for tackling high housing costs, homelessness, and gentrification through a mix of nationwide rent control, increased federal spending on housing vouchers and public housing construction, and higher taxes on the wealthy.

"I don't have to tell anyone in America that we have an affordable housing crisis in Nevada, in Vermont, and all over this country that must be addressed," Sanders said. "It is unacceptable to me that over 18 million families in America today are paying more than 50 percent of their limited incomes on housing."

The most radical part of Sanders' plan is his call for a nationwide cap on rental prices above one and a half times the rate of inflation, or 3 percent, whichever is higher.

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Don't f*ck with Mother Nature. Gene altered mosquitoes prove that Man isn't so superior after all.

On its surface, the plan was simple: gene-hack mosquitoes so their offspring immediately die, mix them with disease-spreading bugs in the wild, and watch the population drop off. Unfortunately, that didn't quite pan out.

The genetically-altered mosquitoes did mix with the wild population, and for a brief period the number of mosquitoes in Jacobino, Brazil did plummet, according to research published in Nature Scientific Reports last week.

But 18 months later the population bounced right back up, New Atlas reports - and even worse, the new genetic hybrids may be even more resilient to future attempts to quell their numbers.

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What should be an outrage, unfortunately happens every day.

Teen Who Shot Houston Cop Was Released Without Paying Bail After Carjacking

The gunman who shot a Houston police officer multiple times during a violent crime spree on Sept. 12 had been released from jail on his own recognizance just days before the attack.

Brandon Bell, 17, and two other teens were arrested for allegedly carjacking a woman at gunpoint at she was passing out campaign fliers on Sept. 2, KPRC reported.

“‘Get out of the car,” he said, according to victim Tina Kingshill. “I got this gun and I will shoot you.”

Bell also allegedly pointed the gun at another volunteer who was with Kingshill at the time.

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There comes a time when you need to cut the umbilical cord. Technology is delaying that.

Parents are increasingly turning to third-party gadgets to keep track of their children’s whereabouts, and Australian creators are jumping on the bandwagon.

Junior versions of smartwatches – scaled-down models of the all-in-one wristband favoured by many adults – are being fashioned for children, mostly with limited features that only exist for safety, rather than surfing the web.

Some offer the full breadth of the internet, while others restrict a child’s access to the bare minimum, like phone calls to pre-programmed numbers.

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THE ONT MUSICAL INTERLUDE

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Three Genius Award Winners

'I can see paradise by the dashboard light'. Not one but two Genius Award Winners.

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. - Deputies say a Florida couple arrested on suspicion of cycling under the influence on Friday the 13th didn't let that stop them from having sex in the back of a patrol car.

This bizarre episode unfolded about 11:40 p.m. Friday night in Fernandina Beach, according to their arrest reports. A Nassau County deputy stopped the couple after they were nearly struck by a car they cut off while crossing South Fletcher Avenue. Smelling booze, the deputy placed both under arrest.

Things took a sordid turn when the arresting deputy noticed the couple had shed their clothes and were starting to have sex in the back of his patrol car. When deputies opened the car door to intervene, the naked man knocked a deputy to the ground and took off running into the night.

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Here, hold my beer. Genius Award Winner.

A daredevil climbed a 30-foot electricity pole before accidentally shocking himself and plummeting to the ground.

Tyler Uher had been drinking before performing the high-risk stunt in front of a crowd of student outside a house party near Ohio University, Athens, on Friday night.

Footage shows the raucous crowd of students cheering as they look up at the man perched at the top of an electricity pole.

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Expecting to find a vandal, this couple finds something completely different. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
Great video.

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NYT's Maggie Haberman Brags That the NYT Already Had the Information that Leland Keyser Was Pressured by Ford's Friends;
But Then Gets Quiet When Asked, "Why Didn't the NYT Report It, Then?"

—Ace of Spades

Actually, Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino already broke this story in their book Justice on Trial, but the media is pretending that book doesn't exist and doesn't "count" for scoop purposes.

Only Liberal Reporting is Real News is the rule -- though that rule seems to have things exactly 100% backwards and wrong.

But even playing along with the media's increasingly fantastical version of alt-reality: It seems weird to brag about having a scoop which you decided to bury and suppress for purposes of book sales and partisan political advertising.

Grampy Biden: Not "To Sound Like a Wonk Here," But My Child Tax Credit Would Put "720 Million Men and Women" Back Into the Workforce

—Ace of Spades

Oh? Will we be importing the entire population of Central and South America to increase our population to over a billion?

"To be a wonk." Yeah Joe, you really wonked out on us there with your made up fantasy numbers.

Pogrebin and Kelly: It Was Totes Our Editor Who Accidentally Removed the Disclosure That The "Victim" Denies Max Stier's Claim
Also Pogrebin and Kelly: Oh Yeah, We Also "Accidentally" Forgot to Mention This In Our NPR Puff-Piece, Too

—Ace of Spades

A lot of "accidental" omissions of a key detail which makes their book much less salable, if mentioned.

And they keep on "accidentally" forgetting to mention it.

Last night on Lawrence O'Donnell, the pair threw their editors under the bus and claimed, almost certainly falsely, that the editors decided to cut the key fact that this story is all about a "victim" who denies the event ever happened.

But when they recounted this same story on NPR, they strangely also failed to note this key detail -- no clumsy editor stumbling around making accidental deletions!

Apparently they just don't think this fact helps them sell their bullshit book, so they frequently "forget" to mention it.

In fact, the omission was so significant that Gross recorded an update and inserted it into the show immediately thereafter, noting the omission and how it also had to be corrected at the New York Times.

Pogrebin and Kelly have a pattern of omitting this detail, and other key details.

Even Terry Gross of NPR thought that the omission of this fact was beyond the pale, and rushed to add in the fact herself after the interview.

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Another Whoops/Whoopsie: Kelly and Pogrebin commit another bald-faced "accident."

They claim that Brett Kavanaugh's fellow classmates were "mum" about these charges, and then claim that silence equals quiet condemnation.

But Kavanaugh's fellow classmates weren't "mum" about the claims -- they actively denied them.

Pogrebin and Kelly’s work has a pattern of omitting exculpatory evidence that supports Kavanaugh's consistent claim that he never sexually assaulted anyone. The Atlantic piece is excerpted from the book, which has the same error. Oddly, the book quotes the statement on page 140 and page 141, which they characterize as disloyal to Ramirez.

This article will be updated once The Atlantic corrects this latest error.

They keep accidentally omitting things which disprove their claim and would tank their book's sales.

This, by the way, is actual malice.

Supercut: Watch Kelly and Pegrobin spend 78 seconds first claiming that their editors made All The Mistakes and then changing their story to "it doesn't matter who did what, it's just a distraction from the real story, which is that you should buy our shit book which is a dry-hole bust so we have to constantly lie about it."

New York Times Publishes Article That Discovers New Feminist Cause for Feminist Maniacs To Rage Against. The New Cause Is (Spins Wheel) "Poop Shaming."

—Ace of Spades

I think the Times has pieces of shit like this all loaded up in the chamber, ready to crap them out when they need to change the story away from their last shit-the-bed moment.

This is embarrassing as hell, but at least the discussion here isn't about whether the New York Times engages in deliberate slander for partisan ends.

We may be living in an age where certain pockets of the corporate world are breathlessly adapting to women’s needs -- company-subsidized tampons, salary workshops, lactation rooms. But even in the world's most progressive workplace, it’s not a stretch to think that you might have an empowered female executive leading a meeting at one moment and then sneaking off to another floor to relieve herself, the next.

Poop shame is real -- and it disproportionately affects women, who suffer from higher rates of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. In other words, the patriarchy has seeped into women’s intestinal tracts. Let's call it the pootriarchy.

Girls aren't born with poo shame -- it's something they're taught.

Cokie Roberts Dies Due to Complications from Breast Cancer;
Al Sharpton Remembers Her In His Own Inimitable Way

—Ace of Spades

Dead at 75. She was a southern-fried liberal patrician mediocrity who blazed the trail for later southern-fried liberal patrician medicorities, like Kathleen Parker.

Al Sharpton took the time to remember her.

Sort of.

CBS Reports "The Real Bombshell" in the NYT Smear: That Blasey-Ford and Her Friends/Co-Conspirators Threatened to Smear Leland Keyser If She Didn't Back Up The Lie

—Ace of Spades

And Blasey-Ford actually did smear Keyser at the hearings, if you remember.

This was outrageous.

[Kavanaugh] pointed to Keyser's statements that she didn’t remember the event. "All four people allegedly at the event, including Dr. Ford’s longtime friend, Ms. Keyser, have said they recall no such event, "Kavanaugh said. "Her longtime friend, Ms. Keyser, said under penalty of felony that she does not know me and does not believe she ever saw me at a party ever."

During her testimony, Ford downplayed the fact that Keyser didn’t have any recollection of the incident. [Girlish Baby-Talk Voice ON] "Leland has significant health challenges, and I'm happy that she’s focusing on herself and getting the health treatment that she needs," Ford said. "I don't expect that P.J. and Leland would remember this evening."

This line of attack had been pre-schemed with the Beach Friends. In fact, one of the Beach Friends suggested straight-up extorting Keyser.

"Keyser later said she felt pressure by both [Ford classmate Lucy] Gonella and Ford's friend Monica McLean to change her story," Pogrebin and Kelly wrote.

"I was told behind the scenes that certain things could spread about me if I didn't comply," Keyser told the authors.

A group text recounted in the book between Ford’s friends following the hearing included discussions on how to convince Keyser to modify her story....

Another friend, a man who’d gone to Holton's brother school, suggested making Keyser's "addictive tendencies" -- the authors describe in the book her struggles with alcohol and drugs — widely known. "Perhaps it makes sense to let everyone in the public know what her condition is," the man texted.

Related:

Unrelated but Funny:

Ilhan Omar: American Immigrant Detention Centers Remind Me of African Slave Camps

—Ace of Spades

They visited a museum about the slave trade, which featured preserved dungeons used for keeping slaves.

During the speech, Omar talked about a trip that she took to Ghana, describing a visit to the slave dungeons where Africans were held as captives....

"Every time [the tour guide] gave a description, I had this sort of flashback to an image that I saw on TV in Libya where you had Africans in a small room that were now captives, and that image was from today," Omar said.

"And every time he would talk about the separation of the kids and from their parents and how they would have young girls be in the same dungeons as the women or they would have young boys be in the same dungeons as the men, I couldn’t stop seeing images of the current camps we have here our borders in the United States," Omar said.

"And so of a story that happened 400 years ago–I constantly had this reminder, this horrifying image, of many of the things that were taking place there in that dungeon now taking place, whether it is in in the shores of North Africa or in the shores of the United States."

Mass Media Marketing Effort, Take Two

—Ace

A friend says that what she's actually doing is saying, “Yeah he was a rapist who did rapey things but we couldn’t find any more fake rapes following the incidents that never happened.

Meanwhile, Max Stier is apparently taking a breather from his role of Smear Offensive Coordinator:

Seems like this should have been disclosed, no?

Funny, They Only Seemed to "Notice" Their "Oversight" When Mollie Hemingway Pointed It Out on Twitter:

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

See that headline in the link? That is our proper function in the Middle East right now. We have the intelligence-gathering capability that can assist our allies against the Iranian regime. And we have the logistical capacity to move huge quantities of whatever may be needed; whether that is resupply of armaments or oilfield and refinery equipment remains to be seen. And we have air power and anti-missile technology that Iran would find difficult, if not impossible to counter.

Notice what is missing? Troops! Aside from naval support and air power, we should not...must not...put boots on the ground in the Middle East. "No Blood For Oil" may sound like a leftist screech, but in this case it is 100% correct.

US shares info with Saudi Arabia that blames Iran for oil field attack

President Trump has said the U.S. is “locked and loaded” and able to respond to the threat but also said he wants to avoid war. Iran has denied any involvement in the attack. Ahead of UN meeting, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "there will be no talks with the US at any level," the Associated Press reported.

Sure, pump up the Saudis and their neighbors to do the heavy lifting (if they are even capable)...that is fine, and we can make clear that we stand behind them...but not in front.

Oil futures are already coming down sharply, so the hysterical media reports about oil spikes are mostly bullshit. And I will happily pay more at the pump to keep American troops out of harm's way. Besides, I have heard rumors of a newfangled American technology called "fracking."

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Man with a Pink Carnation
Andrea Solario

The Morning Report - 9/17/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Tuesday and the fallout from the now completely debunked smear round two of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh continues. The salient point made by Rush Limbaugh yesterday and underscored by David Harsanyi in the links below is that, to paraphrase and combine the two, the revelation that the NY Times smeared Kavanaugh and now hangs its head in shame misses the point, mostly because they are not hanging their head in shame. Far from it. Limbaugh:

... More than likely what's gonna happen here, the purpose of this is to discredit everything Kavanaugh does from this day forward on the bench. Let me explain to you how that's gonna happen. The Supreme Court has a ruling on guns, the Supreme Court has a ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court has a ruling on anything, and the majority is conservatives, and Kavanaugh joins the conservatives. Every story about Kavanaugh, "Brett Kavanaugh, US Supreme Court justice who sided with the majority here, is often accused of sexual abuse and rape over the course of his college life." That's gonna be in every story reporting on Kavanaugh's every ruling. Mission accomplished, is what this is!...

... The point is that we're not talking about journalism here, folks... We're talking about perhaps the leading edge of the spear here in the Democrat Party attack apparatus. This, I believe, is a coordinated-timeline attack. It's all part of the overriding Democrat Party strategy to get rid of Donald Trump and to punish anybody that he appointed or that he worked with for all kinds of reasons. A) to get rid of the vestige of anything to do with Trump, and to try to create a reality where Trump really never existed. "This was just some mistake. The 2016 election shouldn't have happened." They're just trying to rewrite history, and at the same time they're sending a message to any other judges that Trump might choose, "You might not want to do this, because we're waiting here to destroy you..."

And now Harsanyi:

Sure, it's about partisanship and peddling books and selling newspaper subscriptions, but in the end, Democrats' smearing of Brett Kavanaugh is also about delegitimizing the Supreme Court - the only institution that will inhibit the progressive agenda no matter who wins elections.

Conservatives justices aren't merely wrong, they're nefarious and racist and extremist, you see, so virtually anything Democrats do to try and stop them is now rationalized. In this world, the accused, rather than the accuser, bears the "burden of proof." In this world hucksters like Michael Avenatti are turned into experts and major news outlets will eagerly repeat and spread slander as news...

... Excited journalists were instead smitten by the professionalism and "principles" of The New York Times article. Headlines about "new allegations" were blasted across the media landscape even after the correction. The important thing to them is that journalists can keep framing Kavanaugh as a problematic justice and Democrats can keep using the word "illegitimate" to describe his seat...

The coup to take out candidate Trump and then President Trump is exactly the same as this, or more to the point, this is merely an extension of it. On the granular level, the courts since perhaps the time of Marbury and most definitely since the FDR administration were where the Left went to ram down our collective throat all of their insane policies that never stood a chance at the ballot box. And once ruled the law of the land, it was forever etched in stone. So now that the courts are gradually realigning themselves back towards justices who swear loyalty to the Constitution and not the Communist Manifesto, plus a detectable undercurrent of popular revulsion for the purveyors of same, there can only be one recourse for the Left: De-legitimization. And that goes hand in hand with the ongoing de-legitimization of American history, western civilization, the Scottish Enlightenment, Judeo-Christian morals and values and all that goes with it.

Whether the Left's leaders see and understand their 100-plus year slow motion hijacking of the nation is possibly slipping through their grasp or truly believe their own agitprop about the evil of America is irrelevant. The end result is still the same; a growing threat of lawlessness up to and including the use of violence to maintain the power they have and perhaps attempt a grand coup.

From shooting unarmed lawmakers at a softball field and nearly beating them to death on their front lawns to confronting them in restaurants, threatening their families and children or smearing them to such an extent as to virtually ruining their careers and livelihoods, the Left has declared war on us. And, gentle reader, they are coming for you. Masterpiece Cake Shop, Memories Pizza and now "social credit scoring" are the tip of the iceberg. They will not leave us alone. We will be made to cheer them on and woe to anyone who stops applauding first. We are all Brett Kavanaugh now. High time we wake up to that fact.

KAVANAUGH PERSECUTION 2.0
• New York Times Now Admits New Kavanaugh Accusation Is Fake News
  
• Kavanaugh Smear Authors Claim Exculpatory Evidence Was in the Kavanaugh Smear Until NY Times Editors Removed It
  
• Harsanyi: The Smearing Of Brett Kavanaugh Is An Attack On the Supreme Court
  
• Nadler on Kavanaugh Impeachment: "We Have Our Hands Full" with Trump Impeachment
  
• Trump Calls For Resignation Of NY Times Reporters Who Wrote Kavanaugh Hit Piece
  
• Spawn of the Jap Jeffrey Epstein, Maizie Hirohito, Calls For Kavanaugh Impeachment
  
• Toto: Hollywood Ignores Avalanche of Pro-Kavanaugh Facts
  
• Cleveland: Lindsey Graham, Start Fighting For Justice For Brett Kavanaugh
  
• Repubs Cheer as Dems Seize on Losing Campaign Issue of Kavanaugh Ahead of 2020

  CIVIL WAR 2.0

  Authorize the use of deadly force on anyone who attacks an ICE facility. Enough is enough, Mr. President.

• ICE Facilities To Receive Security Overhaul Following Violent Attacks

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION, BORDER SECURITY

  To the border we go where, is it my imagination or do foreigners whose illegal presence on our soil constitutes a crime have standing to sue our government for bennies, or is that just rage-inducing chutzpocrisy? Tom Homan rips Congress for not protecting our sovereignty, good news and bad news in the reduced numbers, one of Nancy Palsi's spark-of-humanity boys is anything but, and Jorge Ramos gets knocked off his elevator shoes in the last link.

• DACA Illegals Sue to Ensure They Can Use Welfare and Still Get Green Cards
  
• Former ICE Chief Homan Tells Politicians to "Stand Up and "Do Your Job" on Border Crisis
  
• Even With Numbers Falling, the Rest of the Border Crisis Is Not Being Solved
  
• Honduran Native Accused of Repeatedly Raping 6-Year-Old in Montgomery County
  
• The Micro Machismo of Jorge Ramos

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM

  Hideous trio of cunning runts booted from the Women's March.

• Report: Women's March Dropping Sarsour, Mallory, and Bland Due to Anti-Semitism Controversies

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

  Daniel Greenfield on the troubles of Tribble.

• Greenfield: How Obama's Senior Response Director Profited From Disaster in Puerto Rico

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

  Manhattan DA goes on fishing expedition, White House restricts Lewandowski testimony, ex-Comey aide spills beans on how the lanky hunk of piss set up the President, and maybe Michael Flynn is at last in the catbird seat.

• Manhattan District Attorney Subpoenas Trump's Accounting Firm for Personal, Corporate Tax Returns
  
• White House Restricts Corey Lewandowski's House Testimony
  
• Ex-Comey Aide Describes How FBI Chief Prepared For Infamous Trump Tower Meeting
  
• Michael Flynn Graymails the Government

  POLITICS

  Trump's approval surging once again as he was in New Mexico for yet another great rally, Dems set to investigate Mrs. Cocaine Mitch thanks to Peter Schwiezer's book, Trump wants them to investigate Obama for his Netflix deal, Michigan Dem silent about feelings on Rancida, Blotto O'Rourke and the 1619 Project, Joe Walsh is a joke, and Dennis Prager deciphers Democrat debate drivel from last week.

• Trump Approval Climbs, Tracks Better Than Obama At Same Point
  
• Trump New Mexico Rally: Bashes NY Times,Praises Kavanaugh, Touts Energy Independence
  
• President Trump Celebrates Latino Supporters in New Mexico: "They Want the Wall"
  
• Democrats Investigate Elaine Chao in Wake of Schweizer's Secret Empires' Bombshell
  
• Trump Suggests House Judiciary Investigation into Obama's Netflix Deal
  
• Michigan Dem Stevens Won't Say Whether She Endorses Rancida Taliban
  
• Why Blotto O'Rourke's Embrace of the 1619 Project Is Dangerous
  
• Republican Presidential Candidate Joe Walsh Call His Own Party a Cult After States Cut Primaries
  
• Prager: Do You Know What the Democrats Said at Their Debate?

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

  Right on cue as if to underscore my opening rant, Arizona high court hands big victory for religious liberty and the first amendment, on the Google threat to liberty and ripping the media over Kavanaugh et al.

• Christian Artists Can't Be Forced to Make Gay Wedding Invites, Arizona Supreme Court Rules
  
• Google and Its Pals Are Worse than Anyone Thought
  
• In the Land of No Consequence, Bad Behavior Festers

  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Sheila Jackass-Lee goes ape on gun grabbing, Arizona gun store sells out of AKs and ARs for Beto special and the irony that today is Constitution Day.

• Sheila Jackass-Lee: House Members Will Have to Start "Flooding" the Senate to Get Gun Control
  
• "Sold Out": Arizona Gun Store Offers "Beto Specials" on AR15s and AK47s
  
• Blotto's Gun Grab and Constitution Day

  ABORTION

  California mandates abortion pill access at public colleges, former PP prexy dishes on being abused by the baby-killers, Mayor Buttplug supports new clinic in South Bend from employee of dead Mengele enthusiast, and an OB/GYN tells the horrible truth.

• California Passes Bill Forcing Public Universities To Offer Abortion Pills
  
• Former Planned Parenthood President Accuses Organization Of Hypocrisy, Intimidation
  
• Update: Mayor Buttplug Supports Opening Clinic Linked to Former Employee of Disgraced Abortionist
  
• OB/GYN Testifies Before Congress: Babies That Survive Abortion Are Being Left to Die

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  The Iran situation heats up as Sec State Pompeo heads to the KSA for talks, Chris Coons talking up military action against Farsis, Tusli Coffeecake not hot to trot for that idea, the insane foreign policy mindset Trump has to untangle, head Farsicle rejects any jaw-jaw with Great Satan, and a reminder that our new number one oil status at last puts us in a good position to deal with this as it should have been ages ago. Elsewhere, Chi-Coms furious that a Hong Kong activist is coming to America and a call for the next NSA chief to end the Afghan debacle.

• President Sending Sec State Pompeo to Saudi Arabia to Discuss Oil Attacks
  
• Dem Sen. Coons: "This May Well Be the Thing That Calls for Military Action Against Iran"
  
• Iran's Supreme Leader: There Will Be No Talks with US at Any Level
  
• Tulsi Coffeecake to Trump: Having US Act as "Saudi Arabia's Bitch" Is Not "America First"
  
• Iran's Attack on Saudi Arabia Reveals Our Foreign Policy Muddle
  
• Iran Will Keep Escalating Until Trump Hits Back... Or Folds
  
• America's Oil Miracle: A Bulwark Against Iran, and No Thanks to Democrats
  
• Hong Kong Activist Headed For DC; Chi-Coms Furious
  
• Trump's Next National Security Adviser Should Focus On Ending the Afghanistan War

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

  Muslim mayor of some Jersey town infuriated for being questioned by CBP after coming back from Turkey and Raymond Ibrahim on Trump's correct assessment of Islam in 2016 vis a vis Dem pandering to Muslims ahead of 2020.

• Muslim Mayor of Prospect Park, NJ Enraged at Being Questioned by Border Patrol on Return from Turkey
  
• Trump's "Islam Hates Us" Returns

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  UAW strikes GM as union leaders under investigation, record crude oil price spike after Iranian attack, and two articles about California's war on the gig economy.

• Auto Workers Strike Against GM Comes As Union Leaders Face Corruption Investigation
  
• Crude Oil Prices Make History: Spike Most Ever After Attacks On Saudi Sites
  
• California Gags the Gig Economy
  
• New York Labor Groups Eye California's Bill That Would Recognize Uber, Lyft Drivers As Employees

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  Mostly peaceful Pakistani known for mostly peacefully urinating in massage parlors, gets life in prison for mostly peacefully stabbed masseuse to death.

• Pakistani "Pee Guy" Rohail Sarwar Gets Life Sentence for Murder (the religion of pees - jjs)

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  Your daily dose of tits, teeth and stupidity.

• Toothy McBigTits AOC: Free Public College Should Be Passed at Same Time as Student Loan Forgiveness

  HEALTHCARE

  Now vaping is to be abolished.

• A Bad Case of the Vapors

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  No need for comment.

• "Climate Change": A Leftist Excuse to Redistribute Wealth and Destroy the West

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

  Oregon's island of Dr. Moreau and a victory in of all places New York City.

• How Oregon Built A Transgender Medical-Industrial Complex On Junk Science
  
• NYC to Drop "Conversion Therapy" Ban after Jewish Therapist Mounts Legal Challenge

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  Is Major League Baseball getting a taqqiya sunrise?, more on Mugabe, an excellent rejoinder to Dean Baquet and the disgusting 1619 Project and a look at the Constitution in context to the madness of today as we celebrate its anniversary. How many more does it have? Gevalt.

• MLB's Reasons for Nixing NY Mets' 9/11 Tribute Don't Add Up
  
• Mugabe: The Death of a Dictator
  
• Hey, Dean Baquet: I Demand an "1871 Project"
  
• The Political Community of the US Constitution

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

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/16/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“A lot is happening in Washington and across this great country of ours. And it’s because we have a president who is a true leader. And I believe will be regarded as one of this country’s greatest presidents.” Lou Dobbs

Quote II

"They are not dangerous animals. They are trained. They assist me. I have PTSD because of something that happened to me, a very bad thing that happened to me a long time ago,” Texanne McBride-Teahan

Quote III

“This action cost our community many, many millions of dollars in lost commerce,” Sean Teare, a Harris County prosecutor

Quote IV

“My grandmother didn’t get here because she was forging a path for herself, but because she was thinking about other women and other men. Those who look like you, those who do not.” Lauren Secatore

Quote V

“I believe that our country has become excessively punitive and vindictive about remarks that people find offensive or racist and that we need to try and move beyond that if we can,” Presidential candidate Andrew Yang

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No Tatter commentary but still good.....................

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Do you have a sh!t ton of cash burning a hole in your pocket? Do you want to make a scene? Boy oh boy, this show is right up your alley.

Michelle Obama must really need the extra cash to pay for that new Martha’s Vineyard mansion that she and her husband, Barack Obama, bought — ticket prices for her latest event are through the roof.

The former first lady is hosting an event called “A Moderated Conversation with Michelle Obama,” and ticket prices are as high as $4,200 each.

What insights could she give? She's nothing more than an unaccomplished individual with a chip on her shoulder.

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Vapers are quitting and going back to smoking.

E-cigarettes, long touted as a healthier way to move off the original cancer sticks, suddenly face an alarming bad rap: mysterious lung diseases; random explosions during use; a link with cancer and heart disease.

At the same time, the devices’ so-called strengths have become weaknesses. Users originally drawn to the cheap hit—you get more nicotine for less cash—now find that it’s not always ideal to be able surreptitiously suck on the sticks wherever you choose, whether in subways or school hallways.

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There could be a dangerous bias against people undergoing cancer treatment.

There Seems to Be a Big Issue When It Comes to Single People Being Treated For Cancer

When it comes to receiving cancer treatment, your marital status might make a significant difference in the level of medical care you get, according to a new study.

University of Delaware researcher Joan DelFattore suggests there's a subtle bias at work when physicians weigh up which treatments best suit their patients' needs - one that prizes a spouse's support above all others, in sickness and in health.

DelFattore, a professor emerita of English and legal studies, was inspired by her life experience as a cancer patient to delve into a close examination of literature analysing data from the US National Cancer Institute database.

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US armed forces die in part to protect every day citizens free speech rights. They even die for this worthless company, Face Book.

Mary Ann Mendoza is not a popular woman among tech companies, it seems.

Mendoza, an “angel mom” whose son was killed by a drunk driver that was illegally in this country, was suspended from Twitter in July for doing what she’s done for years: Posting about illegal immigration.

Now, according to Breitbart, Facebook has done something similar. Not only has it taken down two of her posts for violating “Community Standards on hate speech,” she says the donation button on her organization’s page has been permanently removed, according to Breitbart.

#MuhPrinicples echos the cuckservatives.

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'Then came the lawyers, then came the rules'

A Federal Judge Says Anheuser-Busch Can't Advertise MillerCoors' Use of Corn Syrup

One of the best things about the otherwise tedious Super Bowl broadcast earlier this year was the debut of a mildly amusing, medieval-themed Bud Light beer commercial that attacked rivals Miller Lite and Coors Light over the latter two's use of corn syrup as an ingredient in their respective brewing processes.

"Bud Light," one such ad closes. "Brewed with no corn syrup."

That is, by all accounts, a true statement. But it's also one that helped spur MillerCoors, which brews (as its name implies) Miller Lite and Coors Light, to file a federal lawsuit in Wisconsin against Bud Light brewer Anheuser-Busch.

The Bud Light ad, court documents state, "claims that Miller Lite and Coors Light are 'made with' or 'brewed with' corn syrup." All parties to the lawsuit agree that MillerCoors uses corn syrup as an ingredient in brewing both Miller Lite and Coors Light.

The crux of MillerCoors's claims against Anheuser-Busch, then, is that "when viewed as a whole, [the advertisements] deceive[] consumers into believing that Miller Lite and Coors Light final products actually contain corn syrup and thus are unhealthy and inferior to Bud Light."

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Something is better than nothing, even if it is less than one wanted. The makers of OxyContin file for bankruptcy after several states reject their offer of settlement.

At a time when some 130 Americans are dying every day from opioid-related overdoses, Purdue is hoping that its settlement will placate most of these plaintiffs, allowing the company to restructure and emerge from bankruptcy, likely under new ownership. Though many litigants agreed to the company's settlement proposal last week, a number of holdouts, including two dozen states, refused, insisting on more onerous terms for Purdue, the New York Times reports.

The company was the first to introduce fast-acting OxyContin to market in the 1990s, the drug that more than any other pharmaceutical has been blamed for jump-starting the opioid crisis.

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The ONT MUSICAL INTERLUDE

RIP Eddie Money

&&&

RIP Ric Ocasek

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Too drunk to fly? No problem for our Genius Award Winner.

A furious ballerina kicked a police officer in the testicles after being told she was too drunk to get on a plane.

Daiana Andreas Rivera found herself in a confrontation with cops at Heathrow airport after fellow passengers told staff she had had too much to drink.

They saw the 33-year-old being 'drunk and disorderly' in the airport Wetherspoon.

When she was approached by staff Ms Rivera kicked one in the genitals and scratched another in the face.

Officers searched her they found she had a lock knife in her possession.

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Elevated gardens. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

After Terry Garrett witnessed his ailing brother lose the ability to pursue his love of gardening, he took it upon himself to ensure that anybody—regardless of whether they are confined to a wheelchair—could keep their green thumbs in the dirt.

Garrett is the mastermind behind the Elevated Garden: a tabletop garden that has been designed specifically for people in wheelchairs. The idea for the elevated garden was born after his brother was diagnosed with Stage IV chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 9-15-2019

Top 10 commenters:
1 [558 comments] 'Insomniac' [78.33 posts/day]
2 [508 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier'
3 [450 comments] 'garrett'
4 [360 comments] 'Jane D'oh'
5 [338 comments] 'Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Endless Taco Bar'
6 [320 comments] 'Blonde Morticia'
7 [312 comments] 'Tom Servo'
8 [297 comments] 'Pig to man dreaming of lions'
9 [296 comments] 'qdpsteve'
10 [295 comments] 'Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [332 names] 'Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Endless Taco Bar' [46.61 unique names/day]
2 [53 names] 'Surfperch'
3 [45 names] 'Notorious BFD'
4 [41 names] 'Ha'
5 [28 names] 'My Pimp Shot My Dealer'
6 [25 names] 'ace'
7 [25 names] 'davidt'
8 [22 names] 'LeftCoast Dawg'
9 [21 names] 'Bertram Cabot, Jr.'
10 [20 names] 'boulder t'hobo'

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Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. Loose change, drink tokens and burner phones to petmorons at gmail dot com.

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Clinton Lawyer and Kavanaugh Smear-Whisperer Max Stier Worked With the Washington Post Since 2016, But Forgot to Mention the Brett Kavanaugh Smears Until Democrats Needed Them in 2018

—Ace of Spades

More: It turns out that Robin Pogrebin wrote the promotional tweet for her promotional article/smear promoting her book that has all the #Woke brigades up in arms.

The left is acting like this is the big scandal here -- not that this article fails to mention that the alleged victim denies any memory of this farcical allegation (which, as far as I can tell, was actually made by Clinton lawyer Max Stier, who claims he "heard" things).

This is the scandal, they're saying: that the tweet used to promote this story said something about penises being harmless. To wit:

Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken dorm party may seem like harmless fun. But when Brett Kavanaugh did it to her, Deborah Ramirez says, it confirmed that she didn’t belong at Yale in the first place.

Well, that's, whatever, not a terrific sentence but on the other hand, who cares?

I kind of think the deliberate omission of key information while making a smear for personal economic gain was the bigger sin, but that's just me.

And now, this guy now alleges that the co-author of this article, and the co-author of the book the article is intended to serve as puffery for, wrote this tweet her very own self:

Women's March Cuts Ties With Three Founding Members Accused of Anti-Semitism

—Ace of Spades

Credibly accused.

The Women’s March is cutting ties with three inaugural board members who have been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, infighting and financial mismanagement — controversies some say have slowed the organization’s progress and diminished its impact.

Co-Chairs Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour stepped down from the board July 15, though the organization has been slow to announce their departures. The Women’s March website continued to host their photos and titles as co-chairs through this week, when the group announced the board turnover.

Reminder: Communist Bernie Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, so much did he love that particular antisemitic tyranny, recently tapped Linda Sarsour to be a national spokesbigot.

Background on these antisemites here, by John Sexton.

Well, I'm sure now that they have these terrorist-sympathizers, racists, and antisemites out, it'll be smooth sailing for the Women's March from here on out.

Oh wait, breaking:

New Women’s March Board Member: US Military And ISIS Terrorists Are 'Comparably Evil'

A new board member for the left-wing activist group Women's March has repeatedly compared the U.S. and Israeli militaries to the terrorist groups ISIS and Al Qaeda.

...

She justified boycotting "Wonder Woman" in 2017 because lead actress Gail Gadot served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), writing on Facebook and Twitter: "I similarly would not watch a movie where the lead actor or actress were proud of their participation in the US military, ISIS, or Al Qaeda."

"Don't guess, I’ll just tell you, I believe all of them are comparably evil," she added.

Um, no, you boycotted because she's a Jew.

By the way, this specimen is a high-ranking toad at CAIR. So, perfect.

Ilhan Omar: When You Think About It, Didn't America Terrorize Muslims After 9/11?

—Ace of Spades

Update: Gangs of Ilhan Omar's constituents are prowling the city looking for Americans to be oppressed by.

And Now, Another Episode of "Grampa Joe's Corny Old-Timey Half-Remembered Lies"

—Ace of Spades

This is as true as it gets, friends.

A newly surfaced video clip from 2017 shows Joe Biden recounting a bizarre alleged incident in which he deftly avoided a razor-and-chain fight with a gang leader named Corn Pop, when Biden was serving as the only white lifeguard at a predominately black Delaware pool in the summer of 1962.

...

"I learned a lot. And I learned that it makes a difference," Biden said in the 2017 video clip, which documented the ceremony in which the Brown-Burton-Winchester Park was renamed the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center.

"This was the diving board area, and I was one of the guards, and they weren't allowed to -- it was a 3-meter board. And if you fell off sideways, you landed on the damn, er, darn cement over there," Biden said.

Some members of the crowd laughed, apparently at Biden correcting his language, as a small gathering of black children surrounding Biden looked ahead, seemingly disinterested.

"And Corn Pop was a bad dude. And he ran a bunch of bad boys. And back in those days -- to show how things have changed -- one of the things you had to use, if you used Pomade in your hair, you had to wear a baby cap. And so he was up on the board and wouldn't listen to me. I said, 'Hey, Esther, you! Off the board, or I'll come up and drag you off.' Well, he came off, and he said, 'I'll meet you outside.'"

Biden's comments were a reference to competitive swimmer-turned actress Esther Williams, who died in 2013.

"My car was mostly, these were all public housing behind us," Biden continued. "My car - there was a gate on here. I parked my car outside the gate. And he said, 'I'll be waiting for you. He was waiting for me with three guys with straight razors. Not a joke. There was a guy named Bill Wright the only white guy and he did all the pools. He was a mechanic. And I said, 'What am I gonna do?' And he said. 'Come down here in the basement, where all the mechanics- - where all the pool builder is.' You know the chain, there used to be a chain that went across the deep end. And he cut off a six-foot length of chain, and folded it up and he said, 'You walk out with that chain, and you walk to the car and say, 'you may cut me man, but I'm gonna wrap this chain around your head.'"

Biden continued: "I said, 'You're kidding me.'" He said, 'No if you don't, don't come back.' And he was right. So I walked out with the chain. And I walked up to my car. And in those days, you remember the straight razors, you had to bang 'em on the curb, gettin' em rusty, puttin' em in the rain barrel, gettin' em rusty? And I looked at him, but I was smart, then. I said, 'First of all,' I said, 'when I tell you to get off the board, you get off the board, and I'll kick you out again, but I shouldn't have called you Esther Williams, and I apologize for that. I apologize.' But I didn't know that apology was gonna work."

"He said, 'you apologize to me?'" Biden went on. "I said, 'I apologize but not for throwing you out, but I apologize for what I said.' He said, 'OK,' closed that straight razor, and my heart began to beat again."

News has come out that there was indeed a guy calling himself "Corn Pop" alive at that time, and there was a gang called "The Romans."

But the rest of the story seems... well, Bidenesque. This twitter user cast doubt on a lot of the story, highlighting Biden's claim that many of the blacks at the pool had never spoken to a white person before.

He points out that whites made up 73% of the county, making this claim highly dubious.

I'm not sure if I believe that Joe Biden almost had a chain and knife fight which was later defused by mutual recognition of each other's humanity.

Because I think I saw that happen in "Beat It."

Leland Keyser, Who Blasey-Ford Claimed Was a Witness to Her Fabricated Assault, Finally Speaks About Ford's Accusation: "I don't have any confidence in the story."

—Ace of Spades

Funny that the New York Times "reporters" who wrote up that silly accusation where the alleged victim denies the event chose not to publicize this bombshell.

Mollie Hemingway writes:

And then, just before the book ends, the reporters drop a bombshell:

>We spoke multiple times to Keyser, who also said that she didn’t recall that get-together or any others like it. In fact, she challenged Ford's accuracy. I don't have any confidence in the story."

This on-the-record quote is the first time that Keyser has spoken publicly about what was previously reported in detail in the new bestseller "Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court"...

The New York Times authors dismiss Keyser’s statement as the product of a bad memory, before noting that their unsuccessful efforts to corroborate Blasey Ford’s claims including desperately searching for a house that matched the description she gave. Nevertheless, their “gut” told them to believe her in the absence of facts.

The authors also acknowledge what had previously been reported in "Justice on Trial," about

A group text was formed in which friends such as Cheryl Amitay and Lulu Gonella discussed how to get her to say something more helpful to the cause. An unnamed man on the text suggested that they defame her as an addict. Keyser has been in recovery for some time, as her friends know and as has previously been reported.

Amitay answered,"Leland is a major stumbling block" While asserting she didn't want her to make anything up out of whole cloth, she offered ideas for things that could sound supportive of Ford's story, such as that she'd been in similar situations with Blasey Ford that summer.

"I was told behind the scenes that certain things could be spread about me if I didn't comply," Keyser told the reporters, a stunning admission of the pressure to which she was subjected to by Blasey Ford's allies.

Beach friends need to get their asses sued into bankruptcy.

Or maybe some investigation for the lies that we know some "accusers" told. Why are the false accusers being let off the hook, as usual?

Democrats Write Off the White Working Class, Figuring They Couldn't Possibly Do Worse With Them Than They Did in 2016.
They're Wrong.

—Ace of Spades

An editor for the Cook Politico Report tweeted this morning that the Democrats are whistling past the graveyard when they run against the white working class.

Here's why the "let's win without working-class whites" mentality doesn't hold water for Dems. That demog comprises 45% of all eligible U.S. voters, but:

61% in Wisconsin
61% in New Hampshire
56% in Michigan
56% in Minnesota
56% in Pennsylvania
47% in North Carolina

Good luck.

Dems' backslide w/ these voters is the main reason IA (66%) and OH (60%) have already exited stage right off the EC battleground, and why a Dem nominee who performs even worse w/ them could risk losses in ME (66%), NH (61%) or MN (56%).

Dems' path to beating Trump absolutely depends on retaining the gains they made in diverse, college-educated burbs - the kinds we saw in 2018 & #NC09.

But even a slight drop among white non-college voters could negate all of it, given the demog's size & geographic distribution.

Much of the analysis I'm seeing on this site assumes there's no more room for Dems to fall w/ white non-college voters, who are simply a "lost cause."

In fact, Dems have an awful lot more room to fall w/ them, and that's especially true in many of the most critical EC states.

Moreover, the notion that voting behavior is polarized to the point that there aren't any swing/persuadable voters left isn't based in reality.

Not only did we see above-average swings from '12 to '16, Dems wouldn't have gone +40 in '18 without converting lots of '16 R voters.

The bottom line: Dems don't need to win a higher % of the WWC than in '16 b/c 1) it's declining as a % of voters and 2) Dems have made robust gains among college whites.

But Dems *can't* afford to backslide much further & hope to win MI/PA/WI etc. And avoiding that isn't simple.

The Democrats think they can make up for losses in the White Working Class with gains in the White #WokeAF Class.

But real-life isn't Twitter. I keep trying to tell these lunatics that, but they don't believe me.

Last month Politico had a similar story about a demographic with some overlap with the white working class-- the rural vote, which Hillary Clinton lost 2-1 in 2016, and which the Democrats just might lose worse in 2020.

"Right now, no one is building those bridges," Mellman continued. But "if you can move rural voters, even a few points, it becomes possible to win in states you can’t otherwise win."

...

Jeff Link, an Iowa-based consultant who is advising Focus on Rural America, the progressive group that paid for the plane circling the Iowa State Fair, said that if candidates are "talking about who is using what bathroom, we’re not going to get there with rural voters..."

Last week, polling showed that the Democrats had completely lost their 2018 advantage in favorability:

Mika Brzezinsky of the Conspiracy-Addled MSNBC: Say, Maybe Barron Trump Isn't Actually Donald Trump's Son

—Ace of Spades

People who went to (mediocre) colleges, and only as a legacy enrollee to boot, are just better at thinking than the general public.

"Morning Joe' co-host Mika Brzezinski floated the idea Friday that President Donald Trump might not really be Barron’s father.

During a segment recapping Thursday evening's Democratic primary debate, Brzezinski made the suggestion and then pressed the issue when her co-host and husband Joe Scarborough tried to change the subject.

...

"Maybe it is Melania's son," Brzezinski chimed in.

"It is Melania's son," Scarborough repeated.

"That's what he was saying, it was just her son," Brzezinski pressed. "That's just what he said."

"Let me get back to Biden because I don't know what you’re saying," Scarborough tried to change the subject.

"He didn't remember Barron's name or --" Brzezinski continued.

"Just stop," Scarborough persisted.

New York Times Runs Yet Another Smear Against Brett Kavanaugh; Alleged Newspaper Forgets to Mention 1, the Alleged Victim Denies Any Memory of This Silly Tale, and 2, The Person Claiming He Remembers Hearing About It Is... A Clinton Lawyer

—Ace of Spades

What a fusion of common backgrounds, common social circles, and common political agendas.

The authors then bring forth a new allegation that they suggest bolsters her claim. They say that a former Clinton attorney named Max Stier told the senators and F.B.I. that he witnessed Kavanaugh, pants-down, at a party where a group of guys pushed the hand of a female student onto him.

What they neglected to mention, however, was that the Senate Judiciary Committee was not notified of this claim, according to counsel Mike Davis. Democratic Senate offices turned over several claims against Kavanaugh, some of them leading to criminal referrals for false statements. There were claims of a nationwide crime spree undertaken by Kavanaugh, although no evidence was found in support of any of the claims.

More importantly than the procedural issue, however, is that several friends of the alleged victim in question say she has zero recollection of such incident.

That salient detail was omitted by the reporters.

NYT Reporters’ essay about a supposed second Yale incident omitted their own book reporting that completely undercuts it: alleged victim denies any memory of it. Journalistically indefensible, though gullible additional reporters are spreading it of course.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 15, 2019

A correction was added to the end of the article late Sunday night, after a full day of histrionic media coverage: It reads:

Editors' Note: Sept. 15, 2019

An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book’s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.

Howard Kurtz calls this "journalistic malpractice," and "black and white" as far as violations of so-called journalistic standards.

More:

Washington Post Express Shuts Down, Laying Off 20 "Journalists"

—Ace of Spades

The free commuter paper was put out of business due to a lack of public interest in something free.

Even at zero dollars and zero cents, it did not have enough customers.

The whiny babies blamed the public's complete lack of interest in anything they did on smart phones.

"Add Express to the list of print publications done in by mobile technology," the editors wrote. "Sadly, this is our final edition."

The Post announced the shuttering of its Express publication just a day earlier, ending the 16-year run of the publication handed out to riders on D.C.'s Metro rail system.

About 20 journalists have been laid off as a result of the publication's closure. The Washington Post Guild, which did not represent the Express's writers, slammed the decision and in particular the short notice given to employees, some of whom found out from media reports.

"This announcement came the day before operations ceased, with no advance warning," the union said Wednesday.

"These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

"Journalists" call this bitchy, whiny cover "perfect."

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Therefore, in 1962, nobody could've appropriated the nickname 'Corn Pop' from a breakfast cereal since the cereal wasn't known by that name at the time. So either the name came from some totally different source or Joe is just making stuff up. He may not even be doing it intentionally. We all know that he's basically losing his mind, which is starting to resemble the the moldy old attic of a hoarder, full of yellowing magazines, rusty old toys, bits of string, maybe a broken chair or two, and chests of rotting, out-of-fashion clothes. So, in order to appeal to African-American voters, he probably reached up there, brushed aside the cobwebs, and pulled who-knows-what random elements from who-knows-what dark corners of his memory to piece together this story, and, as I said, he probably sincerely believes it happened.

"And the media has shown itself to be quite incurious about Biden's psychological condition. They'll discuss the inner workings of Trump's mental processes for days on end (always finding them wanting, of course), but ignore the obvious fact that one of the major candidates for president on the Democratic side is sliding into dementia in real time. I suspect this is because they think Biden is the strongest contender to unseat the hated Orange Man. But I predict that if they ever determine that another Dem candidate is stronger, the media will turn on Biden, and it will look like those child-like beryllium miners in the movie 'Galaxy Quest' suddenly displaying their fangs and devouring their wounded brother."

Corn Pops Then & Now:

True

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes:

Australian YouTube & Instagram couple, who made it a goal to travel to countries that get a “bad rep in the media,” revealed to have been imprisoned in Iran for past ten weeks. https://t.co/VtcOtTBKGy

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 12, 2019

Of Course, the Irony Here Is That Pretty Much Everything She's Wearing Is A Petroleum Product:

BREAKING: We're in Houston shutting down the largest oil export channel in the country to resist Trump & the oil industry for fueling this #ClimateCrisis.

It's time to end the age of oil. #PeopleVsOil pic.twitter.com/iFfDuz5dQY

— Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) September 12, 2019

Who Dis:

(click for bigger)Here's another photo. She has a very appealing smile.

For the 'Ettes:

(click for bigger)Another photo.

Friday's celebs: Bollywood stars Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, who, as it turns out, are married. Or, at least they were back in 2018. Hopefully, they still are.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Steak With Red Wine Mushroom Sauce:

(Click for bigger steak)

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Portrait Of Ramon Casas
Santiago Rusinol

The Morning Report - 9/16/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Let me start off a new week by stating I am so sick and fucking tired of the Democrat-Left-Media Complex. I mean, Brett Kavanaugh? Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh? Again? Really? Just go fuck yourselves. I guess I could end my column right there and be done with it but there's a lot going on and in point of fact despite blood shooting out of my eyes like the paste-eating waste-of-space goniffing hair-sniffing kiddy-diddler, this insanity is, to put it mildly, not going to help their cause. But still, they persist.

Look, I get the fact that they have gone completely insane, as everything they have thrown at President Trump to destroy him before and after the fact of his election has failed, and spectacularly so. But to now revisit one of their most catastrophic failures to call for Justice Kavanaugh's impeachment based on a 100% debunked lie is really the bitter end. This comes barely 48 hours after Jerry "the Hutt" Nadless saw the shadow cast by his tadger of a schvantz and started the impeachment process against the President. Although now he is trying to do some sort of backtrack because all he wanted was to give the impression of starting the process to appease his base. Yes, he too is a big fat target of the so-called "Justice Democrats." But was double-dog dared and went a bit too far, because impeachment is a distinct turn-off to a very large majority of the electorate. More on this garbage in a moment,

In any case, from what I have seen, every major big-mouth big-wig in the Democrat party including the presidential candidates is now calling for Kavanaugh to be impeached. Plus, I see that Maxine "Mikvah" Waters belched up that we might as well throw Trump in for good measure. Fine. Go for it, schmucks. Because all during the initial attempt to both high- and low-tech lynch Kavanaugh, the public immediately saw through it as such even before all of the so-called "evidence" and "witnesses" were debunked. After he was sworn in, many of us thought because of his first few decisions on the bench that he might be willing to go Left just to stay in with the in crowd and keep himself and his family away from the slings and arrows, figurative and literal these days. But by doing this, with his ass firmly planted on that bench, I would think he's not going to take kindly to this and is going to be motivated to move a bit closer to Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch.

Also, they're not exactly endearing themselves to Cocaine Mitch vis a vis the next vacancy or vacancies that might crop up in the next 14 months. By the way, last week the President's 150th judicial nominee was confirmed, and this disgusting, infantile display is not going to exactly convince McConnell to slow the pace.

Well done, Democrats. Keep fucking that chicken. Hmm, my mood seems to be improving.

KAVANAUGH PERSECUTION 2.0
• Democrats Call for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to Be "Impeached"
• Trump Says Kavanaugh Allegations Deserve Libel Lawsuits
• Cocaine Mitch Isn't Buying the Latest Allegations Against Kavanaugh
• Debra Katz Strikes Again
• New Book: Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Leland Keyser Doesn't Believe Her
• Alleged Victim In New York Times Kavanaugh Story Denies Any Recollection Of Incident

  CIVIL WAR 2.0

  Well, my mood was improving up until the point that I bring you the news of civil war and rumors of civil war. With all the blood-libeling of ICE and the Border Patrol it's no wonder that one of them was shot at during a traffic stop near a smuggling route. No wonder morale at the agencies is plummeting. Also, a suspect has been nabbed for beating up an elderly Jew in Brooklyn, anti-vaccine protester somehow gets into California senate and it's bloody awful while the transgender freak psycho barista who verbally abused a customer gets fired for her troubles. Surprised, as they usually get Nobel Peace Prizes for such actions.

• Border Patrol Agent Wounded, Suspect Killed in Traffic Stop Shooting
  
• Brooklyn Man Arrested, Charged With Hate Crime in Attack on Elderly Jewish Man
• Menstrual Blood Tossed During California Senate Session, Allegedly by Anti-Vaccine Protester
  
• Transgender Freak Coffee Shop Employee Shouts At Conservative Customer, Gets Fired>

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION, BORDER SECURITY

  Trump administration fighting back against false accusations of malfeasance on human trafficking, suddenly Eric Holder is warning Dems about open borders which is laughable considering he and his boss' lawlessness, and yes the sanctuary city madness is the perfect place for the GOP to take a stand in the budget wars. But they most likely will cave because, GOP.

• Trump Admin Pushes Back On Report Claiming Slow Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking
  
• Steadman Holder: Democrats "Have To Understand" That "Borders Mean Something"
  
• Related: The House Eric Holder Built...
  
• Republicans Would Be Dumb Not to Pick a Budget Fight Over Sanctuary Cities

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM

  Will someone tell this clit-less criminal dragon lady that we've had a peace process now for like 45 years.

• Bro-Fo Omar: BDS Movement Will Lead to Peace Process

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

  Ex-NFL player stages revival of the Juicy Galore Show, and Bro-Fo Omar stands by her offensive remarks and claims that she was a victim of 9/11.

• Juicy Galore 2.0: Former NFL Player Accused of Vandalizing His Own Business with "MAGA" and Racist Slurs
  
• Bro-Fo Omar Suggests She Was a Victim of 9/11, Refuses To Acknowledge Her Remarks Were Offensive

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

  Grahaminator does the tick-tock-tick-tock schtick with Steele, this Nadler impeachment fiasco has got Ol' Yeller Levin hot and bothered, and will McCabe name names if he gets pinched?

• Lindsey Graham Teases Bombshell Revelations About Christopher Steele's Credibility
  
• DoJ Uses Impeachment Confusion Against House Democrats In Dispute Over Mueller Grand Jury Material
  
• Ol' Yeller Levin: Jerry Nadler Just "Perverted the Impeachment Process"
  
• Will McCabe Bring the FBI Down with Him?

  POLITICS

  In the wake of the Houston debate fiasco wherein Julian Castro beat up on Joe Bidet, a Texas Dem has pulled his support from the twin son of the La Raza racialist and given it to the teeny-bopper groper, the latter is in hot water about some confrontation with some thug named "Corn Pop," yet another Kennedy ditched by Toothy McBigTits who instead supports Ed Markey, another look at reparations, Liz Cheney rips into Luap the Lesser, and the great Victor Davis Hanson on the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.

• Texas Democrat Pulls Julian Castro Endorsement and Switches to Joe Bidet
  
• Third Democrat Presidential Debate Produces Fireworks but Little Light
  
• The Root Writer Blasts Joe Bidet's "Negro Summer Safari Adventure" With "Corn Pop the Gansgta"
  
• Tough Luck for Joe Kennedy: Dem Kingmaker Toothy McBigTits AOC Endorses Ed Markey for Senate
  
• Plenty of Candidates, But No Stars
  
• Reparations or Liberty?
  
• Cheney: When Given the Opportunity, Rand Paul Blames America First (well, he is Luap the Lesser - jjs)
  
• V.D. Hanson: Trumped Out (...that our OrangeManBad was still there... - jjs)

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

  I'm shocked! The Slimes left out exculpatory evidence in the latest Kavanaugh smear (I guess it wouldn't be a smear if they didn't, right?), Trump rips the media over this, more on Big Tech Brother, more on that CNN Jim Sciutto fable about Trump and spies in Russia, and this social credit crap is a huge key to our undoing and must be stopped.

• NY TimesLeft Out Exculpatory Evidence From Brett Kavanaugh Story
  
• Trump Accuses Democrats and "LameStream Media" of Being Behind New Kavanaugh Smear
  
• The Surveillance State: Have Americans Unwittingly Opted In?
  
• CNN Goes Kamikaze... Again!
  
• The Invisible Shackles of America's Social Credit System

  SECOND AMENDMENT

  Blotto O'Rourke goes gun crazy and the Dems want the no-shot loser to shut his pie-hole. Too late; the adverts are already being cut. Two about Teh Ted in which he warns the GOP to stand firm and Cookie Milano seems to crumble in his presence, red flag laws should make you see red and two excellent links that lay out the plain truth of the madness in any attempt to disarm Americans.

• Blotto O'Rourke: My Gun Confiscation Plan Is "Constitutionally Sound" (zombie George Mason sez go fuck yourself - jjs)
  
• Mayor Buttplug:: Blotto O'Rourke Went Too Far on Gun Stance
  
• Teh Ted Warns GOP Not To "Abandon" the Second Amendment
  
• Cookie Milano Has Nice Things To Say About Ted Cruz After Meeting
  
• Red Flags About "Red Flag Laws"
  
• It's Not the NRA Stopping Gun Control, It's America's 100 Million Gun Owners
  
• Liberals Want to Grab Guns... But Who Will Do the Grabbing?

  ABORTION

  Dear Lord I hope this fiend is roasting in Hell. Turns out he had a clinic in South Bend, Indiana; why does that ring a bell? Oh, yeah. Mayor Buttplug, the apostate homosexual who is an expert on all things Biblical. Well, Adolph Eichmann learned Hebrew and visited Israel before the war and became a "Jewish expert," so I guess it's a parallel. Also, the population bomb is just that - a big dud.

• Over 2,000 Fetal Remains Found On Late Abortion Doctor's Property, Sheriff's Office Says
  
• Why Has the Overpopulation Myth Remained So Persistent When It's So Easily Disproven?
  
• Abortion Dogma Lives Loudly in Mayor Buttplug

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  Iran backed Houthis have succeeded in disrupting about half of KSA's oil infrastructure using drones. Trump and Pompeo are not pleased, and some analysis about the situation vis a vis the Saudi's response and potential nuking up there and elsewhere as a result. Also, US Navy cruises close to disputed Chi-Com islands off the Philippines, Joe Bidet has a brain fart on Afghanistan, Pam Geller wants to know what the hell are we still doing there, and there are going to be a lot of canoe accidents in Kiwi-land.

• Trump Signals Military Action Over Attack On Saudi Oil Sites: "Locked And Loaded"
  
• Pompeo Blames Iran for Drone Strike on Saudi Oil Facilities
  
• Iran Keeps Asking for It
  
• What Have the Houthis Wrought?
  
• Navy Destroyer Tests China's Claim to Disputed S. China Sea Islands
  
• Joe Bidet: Afghanistan is "Three Different Countries," "Cannot be Put Together"
  
• Geller: Why We Are Bogged Down in Afghanistan
  
• New Zealand to Create National Gun Owner Registry, Tighten Firearms Laws

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

  Nike continues to go nuts and Daniel Greenfield with a warning about al Queens-da.

• Nike Creates Toronto Raptors-Branded Hijab (what about a Besty Ross hijab? - jjs)
  
• Greenfield: Queens-istan: A Big Islamic Terror Problem in Trump's Old Neighborhood

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION

  Chicago circles the drain, a look at real solutions to the housing crisis, on the fight to check judicial supremacy, two on California's tyrannical economy-killing laws and Federal spending breaks record (yay, bipartisanship!!).

• Will Chicago Be the Largest US City to Declare Bankruptcy?
  
• The Housing Solution Democrats Are Missing
  
• Why Conservatives Must Fight Judicial Supremacism... and Not Hang Their Hopes on John Roberts
  
• California's New Rent Control Law Will Please Homeowners While Setting Back Housing Construction and Affordability
  
• For-Hire Backfire (California screwing over Lyft and Uber and their economy - jjs)
  
• $4,155,323,000,000: Federal Spending Sets Record Through August (but it really doesn't mean anything, right? - jjs)

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  Of course the economy was never mentioned in the Dem debate, because it is a winning issue for Trump and they know it, despite the propaganda to talk it down, and after the "Fight for $15" De Bolshevik sez "hold my beer" and goes all in for the insanity of two weeks paid vacation for everyone.

• In Third Democratic Debate, Candidates Avoid Talking About the Economy Even As They Claim a Recession Looms
  
• DeBolshevik's Next "Gift" for Workers is Murder for Mom-and-Pop Shops

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION

  What the commies can't do, Qatar will vis a vis brainwashing our kids, more on anti-white, Christian and American propaganda, Harvard's prexy is a raging douchenozzle, and the great Walter Williams with context on it all.

• Qatar-Funded Group Engages In "Propagandistic Activities" While Divvying Out Millions To US Schools, Experts Say
  
• Scapegoating a Young Minority
  
• Harvard's President Publishes Politicized, Phony Welcome Letter
  
• Williams: Academic Stupidity and Brainwashing

  HEALTHCARE

  Dutch case brings assisted suicide to the fore and Purdue Pharma goes chapter 11 over oxycontin.

• Dutch Euthanasia Case Ignites Assisted Suicide Debate
  
• Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy Protection

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM

  Toothy McBigTits shrieks at sky, gets guano on face.

• Toothy McBigTits AOC Predicts Miami Won't Exist "In a Few Years" Without the Green New Deal

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

  Three good links on the transgender psychosis sweeping the globe.

• UK Gender Clinic to Offer Sex Change to Kids as Young as 3... Online
  
• Piers Morgan Rips BBC For Making Films That Teach Kids There Are 100 Genders
  
• Transgender Surgery Is the Lobotomy of the 21st Century

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON

  Christian Toto on Eastwood's latest getting short schrift while this Hustlers dreck gets all the glory, Nike's Colonic Kaepernick advert gets an award, nice rant about so-called "smart" appliances, and two about the hijacking of Christianity in order to destroy it.

• Toto: Film Critics Cancel Clint, Cheer Criminal Hustlers
  
• Nike Commercial Starring Colonic Kaepernick Wins Emmy Award
  
• Buy Dumb!
  
• The Left Hopes to Destroy Christianity by Changing It
  
• Marianne Williamson and Mayor Buttplug Are the New Proselytizers of Politicized Religion

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

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

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/15/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“Hey, I’m brown! Talk to me! I’m a brown lady. I care about my brown kids!” Michelle Malkin

Quote II

“While NJ Transit opposed the reinstatement of Mr. Gallagher, we are required to comply with the legal decision made by the arbitrator. Under provisions clearly defined in that decision, NJ TRANSIT can and will restrict his duty to non-passenger trains,” Nancy Snyder

Quote III

"I think 25% of schools will fail in the next two decades. They're going to close, they're going to merge, some will declare some form of bankruptcy to reinvent themselves. It's going to be brutal across American higher education."Michael Horn

Quote IV

“I don’t think a majority of the Senate or the country is going to embrace mandatory buybacks. We need to focus on what we can get done.” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)

Quote V

"I honestly think that the big three email providers (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google) added this feature because of me." Kyle Milliken

Quote VI

“Every human life is precious, and every woman and baby deserves care and respect. This tragic case shows why abortion providers must be held to strict guidelines and face rigorous oversight. I will be looking into federal legislation to ensure the remains of aborted babies are always treated with dignity, including in the case of chemical abortions."U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski (R-IN)

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RIP, Ric Ocasek of The Cars

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Even pets now identify as transgendered. Good bye Spot, hello Spork.

PORTLAND, OR—LGBTQ+ activists are praising Spot, as Spot is the world's first genderfluid dog. Spot came to the realization he's genderfluid after his owner announced they would be going to the vet to get neutered.

"Neutered? What's that? Oh boy! Sounds fun! Ball!" Spot said. But then he came across some promotional material for the vet's services his owner had left on the coffee table, and Spot was horrified. "No more ball! No more ball!"

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There is animosity between California's two US Senators.

Kamala Harris has always been known for her lean and hungry, pushy, grabby, ambition, which includes a willingness to sleep her way to the top to get what she wants. Her political start began as a social mountaineer with San Francisco's old-money Pacific Heights set dating from her 20s and then just moved onward and upward.

That's not sitting well with California's lizardy old-money senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who knows that establishment well.

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Another staged hate crime gone wrong.

“Jussie Smollett, the Sequel” was stopped by police in Georgia last week before the plot ever reached the big screen. Former NFL player Edawn Coughman was arrested for staging a hate crime in a half-baked scheme that involved trashing his own restaurants for insurance money.

“It appears as though Edawn conjured a premeditated plan to damage his own property, attempt to make it appear as a hate crime, file a claim with his insurance company, and sell off the undamaged appliances and electronics,” a Gwinnett County police statement said.

Police were tipped off by a witness reporting a break-in and burglary-in-progress at Create and Bake Restaurant and Coughman’s Creamery in Lawrenceville at 9:30pm Wednesday. When police responded, they found damage to seating, mirrors, the surveillance system, and missing televisions.

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Anonymity has its rewards.

TULSA, Oklahoma – A Tulsa Police officer who just graduated from the academy a month ago is out of a job because of questionable posts on Facebook.

The department received a complaint about Officer Wayne Brown’s Facebook posts Wednesday morning. The decision to release him didn’t take long. He was fired an hour later, News 9 reported.

According to police, he goes by Duke Brown on his Facebook page. A community action group found the posts dating back to 2013 and took screen shots of them. Tulsa Police called most of the memes posted as questionable.

Six year old comments?

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More "common sense" gun control is being discussed and debated. Red flag laws are neither common sense and erode at our rights as Americans.

Gun control advocates are spending a lot of time and energy to pass red flag laws without acknowledging that the data suggest they are largely ineffective at actually reducing homicides.

Two Yale-trained researchers recently dug into this question, reviewing 22 unique gun policies across the country. Although mental health reporting laws were found to be “weakly associated with lower suicide rates,” their research uncovered “no correlation with homicide rates.”

John Lott and Carlisle Moody found similar results in a fixed regression model for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. “Red flag laws had no significant effect on murder, suicide, the number of people killed in mass public shootings, robbery, aggravated assault, or burglary,” they reported. However, “there is some evidence that rape rates rise.”

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The most expensive cities in the world to live.

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Inside the most brutal dictatorship you’ve never heard of"

Burundi in East Africa is one of the world’s poorest countries – and perhaps the most ignored. The scene of historic ethnic conflict, its messianic president offers stability to an international community terrified of another genocide in the region. But the police state he has finessed now tortures, rapes and kills with near impunity. Saying the wrong thing can be fatal and the search for justice is laced with danger. GQ met those who have fallen victim to laws with no courts and men with no law

One stuffy Friday night in spring 2017, Thierry Hakizimana, a driver for a Catholic diocese in northern Burundi, stopped by a bar near his home after work to take the edge off. Around 9.30pm, reports say, three men herded him outside. Neither friends nor family heard from him that weekend. On the Monday, when Thierry didn’t show for work, his boss stopped by. Thierry’s house was empty and the doors were locked. His boss called Celine, Thierry’s sister, a quiet but tenaciously devout nun in Bujumbura, the country’s then-capital city. She left on a bus headed north to his small, low-slung city.

Celine called Thierry’s phone throughout the three-hour journey. No answer. She wondered why anybody would hurt him. Their family was Tutsi, a group accustomed to swift gruesome bloodletting, whether in Burundi or its northern neighbour Rwanda.

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Looking for an adventure? My recommendation? Avoid deep sea fishing on commercial vessels.

The battered, 74 metre ship was long past its prime. The average age for distant-water fishing boats in the South Korean fleet was 29, and the Oyang 70 was 38 years old. Port captains called it “tender” – a euphemism for unstable. A month before it set sail, a New Zealand inspector ranked the ship as “high risk”, citing more than a dozen safety violations, including the fact that one of the ship’s main doors below deck was not watertight. The inspector later cleared the ship to sail after its operator claimed that all problems had been fixed.

One of the Oyang’s unsolved problems was the man at the helm. Shin had replaced the previous captain, who fell overboard in a drunken stupor and drowned. When the ship cast its first net that day, Shin had been at the helm for nine months. Former crew members referred to him as an “angry man” – sullen, prone to screaming and almost always carrying around a bottle of clear liquid. Deckhands debated whether it was water or grain alcohol. None was reckless enough to ask.

Shin drove his men hard. As the first net was pulled that night, they sorted the squirming, oily mound on the aft deck, quickly heaving the fish down a chute to the ship’s interior to make space for the next haul.

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I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is that Iran is responsible for attacking Saudi oil processing facility. The good news is that John Bolton is no longer in the White House.

In a sharp, if perhaps not unexpected, escalation, US Secretary of State - now without John Bolton by his side - tweeted at 4pm on Saturday, that contrary to earlier reports, "there is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen" and instead accused Iran of launching today's "unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply" which has now indefinitely taken offline as much as 5mmb/d in Saudi crude production.

In a follow up tweet, Pompeo said that he calls "on all nations to publicly and unequivocally condemn Iran’s attacks" which is odd as not even Saudi Arabia accused Iran of today's aggression (which many speculated could have been a Saudi false flag in hopes of sending the price of oil soaring ahead of the Aramco IPO). Pompeo concluded that "the United States will work with our partners and allies to ensure that energy markets remain well supplied and Iran is held accountable for its aggression."

Will this pivot away from Houthis to Iran as the "origin" of the attack be sufficient grounds to re-inflame tensions between the US and Iran, especially following last week's news that one of the reasons Bolton was fired was due to his hard-line stance on Iran even as Trump was willing to sit down with the Tehran regime for negotiations. Since the deep state stands to make much more money from war rather than peace, our guess is that the answer is a resounding "yes"

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I will never be hired at Vox. Why you might ask. Because I am not completely lacking a brain or any reasoning skills.

In just over a year, American citizens will have a chance to cast their ballot for the next president. Except for the 75 million Americans barred by state and local laws from registering to vote, that is.

Are there really that many American citizens legally barred from voting? The answer is yes: our kids.

Around the world, almost every country bars people under 18 from voting. The reasons vary — they won’t be informed enough, they don’t pay taxes yet, they can’t serve in the military yet, they tend too liberal, they tend too rebellious — but the rule persists, even in the face of a generation of passionate, smart, and informed teenage activists, and even as it becomes obvious that our current political system is failing our children.

In the last year, there’ve been encouraging signs that we might rethink this. Democratic candidate Andrew Yang has argued for a voting age of 16, and a bill proposing a voting age of 16 died in the US House in March with a majority of Democratic representatives supporting it.

Well, let’s do them one better: The United States should consider eradicating the voting age entirely and letting every American citizen who can successfully fill out a ballot be counted in our local, state, and national elections (and yes, this goes for felons too).

Perhaps they can fill out a ballot. But what is their stance on Tide pods?

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Life in prison, means life in prison. Except if you are in California.

Twenty-one inmates, including a number convicted in killings, saw their sentences commuted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Newsom’s office announced the commutations on Sept. 13.

Jacoby Felix, Crystal Jones, Andrew Crater, Maurice Nails, Luis Alberto Velez, and Marcus McJimpson were among those convicted in killings and serving life sentences in prison.

McJimpson was 21 when he shot dead two men during an argument in 1988, reported The Fresno Bee. McJimpson will be eligible for a parole hearing thanks to the commutation, with the parole board making the final determination as to whether to release him, as with the cases of the other inmates.

Just thinking out loud, wonder if Newsome has any children in Felix's classroom.

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How to make friend and influence people? Don't hurl menstrual blood. OK?

Anti-vaccine protesters on Friday hurled what authorities believed to be blood onto the Senate floor at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, leading to an evacuation of the building on the final day of the legislative calendar.

A video of the incident was posted on social media, which shows a woman telling California Highway Patrol officers, "My menstrual blood is all over the Senate floor." The woman was subsequently detained, and posts from her Twitter account are connected to anti-vaccine demonstrations that occurred at the Capitol earlier that day.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

On this day: 15 Sep 2004
Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. Founding member of The Ramones, major influence on many punk and 90’s bands. Scored the 1977 hit single 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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"I aint no bad person. Oh yes you are and a Genius Award Winner.

Dunn reportedly told police that Davis “got mad” about the burgers and “grabbed the Springfield handgun and began waving it around towards the drive thru window.” Davis, Dunn said, “waved the firearm above the driver side window so it could be seen.” Dunn, who was in the front passenger seat, added that he “pulled out his BB gun approximately two times but kept it down by his lap.”

Davis, cops reported, told them he “pulled the black gun out from under the driver’s seat and began waving the gun around.”

A search of the car turned up a stolen handgun, a BB gun, and some marijuana (for which Dunn claimed ownership). Dunn told cops, “I ain’t no bad person” as he was being placed in the rear of a police cruiser.

Pictured above, Davis (top) and Dunn were arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon--and other assorted felony and misdemeanor charges--and booked into the county jail. Davis is being held in lieu of $13,000 bond, while Dunn will need to post $10,500 to secure his release.

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Adoption. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Not all mistakes turn out bad. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

A text message sent to the wrong number led to an unexpected act of kindness by a total stranger.

Abby Fink thought she was texting a family friend, but she mistyped the number.

"Hey Brother Jakeman, this is Sister Fink, we are bringing you dinner tomorrow, I was wondering what time would be a good time to bring it over," Fink sent in the message.

On the other end of the text was a man named Bill.

"Oooh! What are you bringing me?" Bill replied, knowing that the message was not meant for him.

Fink explained that the text was meant for a family friend whose 4-year-old son, Noah, was fighting to stay alive.

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Gun Thread: Maybe You Just Suck [Weasel]

—Open Blogger

Something has been on my mind for a while and I think it's time we talked about it. What is it you ask? Well, it mostly has to do with training, expectations and improving your shooting. Let's find out more below, shall we?

Shooting, Sucking and You
Here's a wisdom packed short article sent in by our pal redc1c4 touching on a topic I've felt strongly about for some time. If you aren't getting the results you want in your shooting, or anything else in life for that matter, perhaps the first thing to do is just admit that you suck. I mean this sincerely. On a good day I am a half-way competent shooter, but I sure as hell didn't start out that way. When I first started, I sucked, bigly, boldly and badly. After making a lot of random holes in targets at embarrassingly close distances, I sat down and had a talk with myself and we both agreed that I just sucked at shooting. It turns out that shooting, at least shooting consistently well, is one of those things that is harder than it looks. But what to do about it? Should I simply lower my expectations or should I decide to improve? How about being happy with the status quo?

Just because you suck today doesn't mean you have to suck forever, and improving mostly involves starting with good fundamentals rather than spending a fortune on gear.

It's important to set your expectations and work towards the standard you set for yourself as a goal. I went along for a while and then decided to try and stop sucking by developing some skills which meant a) training and 2) practice, practice, practice. I joined a range and spent an hour or two there every week over a number of years practicing the fundamentals of handgun shooting. Rifle shooting represented a different sickness altogether; I found one of best rifle instructors in the country and spent a countless number of days on a 600 acre hay farm learning to shoot at long-range. Later, I entered as many long range matches as possible over a period of years to practice what I'd learned. Beginning to get the point? It's much more about learning the fundamentals and practicing them, than it is about having the newest, shiniest and expensivest gear on the range. I have had my ass absolutely kicked around a rifle range by old experienced guys and gals with goofy looking vintage gear, because they knew how to shoot. Having ultra high-end equipment only begins to make a difference at the very top end of the performance curve.

When I began coaching long-range rifle teams I frequently worked with new shooters and noticed a tendency for many to believe a new scope or another piece of gear was the quick answer to whatever their problemo du jour seemed to be. They were convinced that moving from a basic stock rifle to a very expensive custom made rifle would place them squarely in the winner's circle on match day. BAM! Imagine their confusion and bitter, bitter sadness when the big day arrives and their brand new rifle doesn't seem to shoot any better than the previous one they were convinced had been holding them back all along. Hey! This new rifle is defective too!

So here are some WeaselRules on shooting, training and practice. These are good not only for new shooters, but also maybe for those who have reached a plateau and are looking to up their game. These are the same points I would gently, and sometimes not so gently, make to the dejected shooter toeing the dirt after a train wreck in a match, but they apply to all shooters sooner or later I think.

Don't Read the Internet
The internet is great for cat videos, exiled Nigerian banking official outreach, and our favorite blog, but can be a dangerous place for anyone with just a little bit of knowledge. It's natural for a new shooter to want to immerse themselves in their latest passion, but it's possible to pick up someone else's bad habits, too. Be very careful what and who you believe online, especially anything from a guy you don't know calling himself Weasel. The best way to begin gaining knowledge you can trust is to find someone who does the kind of shooting you like, and who does it very well, and become their best friend.

Talk Less and Listen More
If you are being coached or are paying for lessons, listen to the instructor and refrain from explaining to them how much of an expert you already are. Shooters are a friendly bunch so if you're learning on your own, find the good shooters, ask questions and listen to the answers. Again, listening does not mean blabbering about how much you know from reading an internet discussion forum the night before.

Set Goals, Measure Progress and Manage Expectations
Always have a plan. Even if you're headed to the range for some plain ol' recreational shooting, have some sort of training objective in mind. You don't need to make a big production out of things, but take the time to focus on fundamentals or one particular aspect of shooting for at least a few minutes. Be willing to invest your time but spend it wisely and adopt some method of measuring your progress. Finally, do not become discouraged when you don't become a champion overnight. It takes time, and there's nothing you can do about that other than, well, investing an amount of time directly proportional to the skill level you want to achieve. There is nothing in the world wrong with being new at something and sucking at it, just be determined to improve if that's what you want to do. If your goal is to shoot six inch groups at 7 yards, then be happy shooting six inch groups at 7 yards.

Everyone Has a Bad Day
No shit. And I mean everyone. Don't compound a problem you might have had earlier by acting like a baby and beating yourself up for the rest of the day. I like to tell the story of a very good friend who is one of the top long range shooters in the country who, in the first three relays of a national match, dropped a total of three points and was in 54th place at the end of day one. Did he get mad and quit? No. That day simply wasn't his day. If you make an errant shot, stop and think about what happened. Try to determine what went wrong and don't do that thing anymore. Have a mental checklist beginnning with your setup, stance and grip mechanics; and progressing through target acquisition, trigger squeeze and follow-up, and assess your performance at each step. There is a time to shoot quickly and a time to shoot s-l-o-w-l-y. Learn from your mistakes and when it's your turn to be the loser, don't be a bad one.

Consider Competitive Shooting for Practice
I am a lazy mo-fo, no two ways about it. After I had been shooting and training for a while, I got to a point where I was excusing my often less than stellar performance as good enough. I'd just barely miss a target at say, 800 yards, and would make up all sorts of reasons to myself why it was justified and understandable. After all, it's a teensy little target a long way away! I was definitely at the point where I'd accomplished my goal of learning how to shoot and was then just being lazy in the execution. So I decided to start entering matches knowing that I could measure good days vs bad ones by my scores, and it worked. You cannot hide from a poorly executed shot when the target comes up and your scorer records the results. You do not have to go all bananas and turn it into a semi-career like I did, but consider match shooting as a training tool. It is a whole lot of fun and you will meet some incredibly nice and like-minded people along the way. You won't know what you're doing the first time, but just suck it up. Every single person on the range had a first day, too. Tell the Match Director it's your first match and ask to be squadded with an experienced shooter who can show you the ropes, then come back and tell me at the end of the day it wasn't fun and worthwhile.

Sorry, It Probably Isn't the Gun
Self-explanatory. 'Nuff said.

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So what do you think? Do you need more practice or do you "need" a new gun or some other gear to improve? Believe me, buying guns is mucho fun-o especially if your objective is owning lots of guns, but if you want to progress with your shooting it takes time, a willingness to learn, and practice. Admitting there is always something to work on is the first step towards being a more consistent shooter. Learn how to shoot before you start throwing new and fancier gear at the problem, and for Pete's sake, always remember it's supposed to be fun!

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Link-O-Rama
NRA: Firearm Training
NRA: Competitive Shooting the very best way to practice - Weasel
USA Shooting: Match Finder
Sig Sauer Acaademy: Shooting Classes and Training
SGAmmo - another excellent online ammo resource
AmmoSeek: Online Ammo Shopping Search Tool

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Last week in the comments our pal freaked mentioned he had a long gun he wanted to ID and here 'tis:

Maybe the horde can help me identify this rifle I inherited from my Grandfather who lived in Frederick Md and was originally from that area. It looks like it might have started off as a flintlock and was converted to cap, and it might have said “Baltimore” at one time. I have examined it with a magnifying glass but you can’t really see any more than what is in the pictures. That area is worn smooth.

Man, is that cooler than shit, or what? C'mon guys - help a brother out and help identify the rifle!

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

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Food Thread: Corks And Bunnies

—CBD

Corks are great, and have worked reasonably well for a very, very long time. But there is nothing magical about them, in spite of being "natural." They don't really breathe, so the idea that corks allow wine to age gracefully is mostly a fiction. And besides, the amount of air that can pass through the cork and then permeate the wine is vanishingly small. What really ages the wine is time, which allows the wine's components (sugars and acids and all sorts of aromatic compounds) to play together and hopefully improve.

And there are big downsides to cork: it is a natural product and can vary tremendously, and it is also associated with the tainting of wine with a chemical called TCA (trichloroanisole), which can impart an unpleasant taste and aroma that I perceive as wet cardboard. That's not a flavor I vigorously pursue in my booze, and I doubt many people enjoy it much.

So why use cork at all? Tradition and snobbery is pretty much the only answer I can come up with. The cost of metal closures is on par with cork, and they don't impart any flavors at all.

When I go shopping for wine, in particular everyday drinking wine, I give bonus points to wines with screw-tops. It's more convenient, the bottles fit in the refrigerator more easily, and even ignoring the risk of TCA contamination, there is much less risk of failure. Everyone has seen crumbly corks and corks that broke off halfway out of the bottle, and that just doesn't happen with screw-tops.

The Aussies use screw-tops a lot, and I am seeing it more and more on American wines, and even Froggy and Spanish wines! I haven't seen any on Portuguese wines, mostly because I rarely drink them and have very little experience. But Portugal's greatest wines are Ports, and it can be a huge problem pulling the corks on old bottles. I wonder whether they will finally figure out that screw-tops are the way to go? I doubt it will happen any time soon, because Port drinkers love the ritual and pomp and circumstance of opening a 50 or 60-year-old bottle, and the breathless anticipation of whether the cork is total crap adds to the experience.

Personally I think that is dumb, because the bottles are expensive and rare, and why risk anything when the whole point is the pleasure of drinking what's inside?

By the way, the bottle on the left is a five-year-old Aussie Shiraz, and it was quite good. The bottle on the right is 29-years-old, and waiting patiently for a crisp autumn weekend and a meal of braised short ribs. I just hope the cork has survived!

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Anyone like rabbit? I sure do, especially grilled with a mustard glaze. I wonder whether the rabbits that live in my yard are tasty?

Don't worry, I probably won't trap one and grill it.

Probably.

My local poultry farm also carries rabbit, so I will try them before I resort to suburban trapping. As I have mentioned before, the only rabbit I ever saw when I was a kid was stuff from a biological products company called "Pel Freez." Yeah, rabbits figured prominently in their manufacturing, but I really, really hope that the food rabbits and the bio rabbits were separate.

[Hat Tip JT, who asks whether this could be Bluebell in retirement in 30 or 40 years...]
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This is market economics in action. An invasive species that government can't eradicate, but the market has an instant solution. Eat the damned things!

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Aaron Franklin is a bit of a loon, but he is exactly the kind of nut-job who makes the world a better place. These three videos will take you through the entire process of smoking brisket, and you will be a better person after you watch them. Cooking shouldn't be mystical and special and reserved for the elites....And this guy is happy to share his secrets with you.

The Brisket

The Cook

The Payoff

Fun stuff, and his other videos are great as well.

I wonder whether he will approve of my plans to sous vide a brisket?

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This looks good. Breakfast Casserole In The 18th Century? - Egg And Bacon Pie

Wow. An appliance designed to cook food. Who would have thought that it was appropriate to use to..you know...cook food? I replaced my oven with a waffle maker, and you should too. Okay, but can you branch out a bit and suggest things that aren't waffles? Because I can imagine cooking a bunch of other foods without any problems. I'll start with chicken pounded thin and dredged in a light batter. Crunch the waffle maker down hard, and the texture will be fun.
[Hat Tips: Curmudgeon]

There are too many food and cooking sites, because far too many of them produce dreck like this. besides listing all of the bagels in the world, they don't actually rank them, they just blather on about how good each flavor is. Besides, cinnamon-raisin is not a real bagel flavor. That's a sop to wimps who can't handle real bagels.

What's next...pumpkin-spice bagels?

All the Best Bagel Flavors, Ranked

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I keep telling you people; any food can be improved with the addition of fat. If you don't like chickpeas but seem to think that you should eat them because they are healthful or some other virtue-signalling crap, then fry 'em up and serve them as a side. Or just fry them up and serve them on the side because they taste good when they are crispy.

crisped chickpeas with herbs and garlic yogurt

I might hold the yogurt and use sour cream or creme fraiche instead. Or even better...use the chickpeas as a garnish for grilled pork chops. Or toss them into a stir-fry.

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Speaking of fat. Fried crab and avocado can't possibly be bad. Avocado Crab Bomb sounds like something I would absolutely order in a restaurant, but maybe not ever try to make it at home. It seems like too much work, when the deconstructed dish would probably be even better. Crab on an avocado with some crispy fries? That sounds good to me.

But if you want to make this and invite me over, I will happily come, and bring booze too.

[Hat Tip: artisanal'ette]

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Food and cooking tips, Castelvetrano olives with a sprinkle of chili flakes, young wild pigs, crisp bacon (although I am moving toward less crisp), thick and fluffy pita, and good tomatoes that aren't square, pale pink and covered with Mestizo E.coli: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Any advocacy of French Toast with syrup will result in disciplinary action up to and including being nuked from orbit. And yes, shaking a Manhattan is blasphemy...it's in the Bible!

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What Color Is The Sky In Their World? The (Il)Logic Behind Progressive Policies

—CBD

We love to make fun of the liberals and progressives because they believe in the perfectibility of Man, and are willing to suspend belief in immutable laws of economics in furtherance of their goals. Many of us have first-hand knowledge of the destruction wrought by rent control and minimum wage laws, and here is a concise explanation of the (lack of) mindset that allows otherwise minimally intelligent people to believe in things that just aren't so.

What If All Reality Were Optional?

Take, for example, support for rent control. Having the state keep the monetary prices of rental units below the values that would arise in free markets is believed by many pols and pundits – and by nearly all “Progressives” – to effectively keep the actual market values of rental units at whatever low prices the state sets. In this reality-is-optional world, when the state pushes down nominal rental prices, the quantity of rental units supplied not only does not fall, it increases to match the increase in the quantity of rental units demanded.

Want more housing for folks with modest incomes? No problem! We’ll just push the rental prices lower to increase ordinary folks’ access to housing. See, the world is such a simple place!

Similar reality-is-optional ‘solutions’ are minimum-wage statutes (for increasing the pay of low-skilled workers) and mandated paid-leave (for increasing the welfare of all workers).

Of course the hard Left uses these dupes as fodder, and they care not a whit that unemployment will rise and housing will grow both more scarce and less habitable, because that is the goal, and not an unintended consequence.

Importing Chinese Consumer Goods Is One Thing...Importing Their Authoritarian "Social Credit System" Is Something Entirely Different

—CBD

It's actually too late, as we have seen over the past several years. Curiously, debits seem to fall primarily in the conservative thoughts and behaviors column. Funny, that...

The Invisible Shackles of America's Social Credit System

There are hundreds of examples that have been prominently discussed in the right-of-center world. The Oberlin College vs. Gibson's Bakery is a excellent example with a happy ending, but far too many of these censorious events slip past the media and become embedded in the default behaviors of regular folk.

And it's censorship, plain and simple. And yes, I know what censorship really is, but when the internet police, with their monopoly on most communication decide to censor, it is indistinguishable from government action. And when banks (with government licenses!) limit speech and behavior and commerce to leftist-approved businesses, how does it differ from government's jack-booted thugs shutting down a legal business?

Social media platforms are the modern “town square,” a place where everyone comes to discover and share information and weigh-in with opinions. Everyone, regardless of their politics, class, or creed, should have access to this marketplace of ideas.

Sunday Morning Book Thread 09-15-2019

—OregonMuse

The REAL Hearst Castle Library

Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes, wine moms, frat bros, crétins sans pantalon (who are technically breaking the rules), maniacs, egomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, dipsomaniacs, nymphomaniacs, megalomaniacs, and, naturally, bibliomaniacs. 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 pants, which, to tell you the truth, I'm not sure if they're pants or some crazy weird undiagnosed skin disease.

Pic Note:

345 [Last week's library pic] is NOT the Hearst Castle library. It is the Gothic Study. The Castle's library looks completely different.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at September 08, 2019 12:50 PM (/OqVH)

Quite right. I should've been more careful. Today's pic shows the actual library.

Update: Thanks to Chi-Town Jerry, here is a much larger, zoomable version of the library. So you can really examine all of the ornate stuff up close.

It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®

(click for larger image)

(h/t The French History Podcast for the graphic, which I think is fascinating)

Free Speech For Me -- And For Thee

Somebody must be slipping up at the Guardian, because it published a review of a conservative (actually, libertarian) book that is not sneeringly dismissive. In fact, it's actually sympathetic:

When a member of the American Nazi party spoke at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, he did so at the invitation of a leftwing student group. As a stunt to promote the event – part of a series which also featured Malcolm X, the conservative William F Buckley, communists and a member of the fringe rightwing John Birch Society – the students wore Nazi uniforms.

All such guests were “greeted politely”, according to the feminist scholar Jo Freeman, and no one tried to stop them speaking. Debates about what the speakers had said, not whether they should have been allowed to say it, “dominated student bull sessions for days”.

The book is Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave who writes for Reason.com. Yeah, I know. But he did good work helping to expose that UVA rape hoax, so I'll give him that.

Since the 2016 election, college campuses have erupted in violent protests, demands for safe spaces, and the silencing of views that activist groups find disagreeable. Who are the leaders behind these protests, and what do they want? In Panic Attack, libertarian journalist Robby Soave answers these questions by profiling young radicals from across the political spectrum...The result is a faithful cross-section of today's radical youth, which will appeal to libertarians, conservatives, centrist liberals, and anyone who is alarmed by the trampling of free speech and due process in the name of social justice.

The Guardian review calls Soave's book "a wake-up call that the woke won't read." Again, I don't know how this got published. Maybe the Guardian's hard-line commie editors were called in to a marathon struggle session that day.

Who Dis:

Moron Recommendations

58 Just finished A Little Rebellion, third in the Crimson World Series. Jay Allen.

Great Heinlein-esque space opera. The only problem is that I got to the end and see that there are six, count 'em, six more books in the series! I'm not sure I can stay with it that long.Seems to me a story can be told in a trilogy.

For those of us with shorter attention spans.

Posted by: RI Red at August 18, 2019 09:33 AM (RqZyu)

I'm finding it difficult to read even the 2nd book of any series I've started lately. But if your attention span is long enough you can get the first three Crimson World books in this collection, the second three in this collection, and the last three in this collection.

But while we're on the subject, this is an advert that appeared on the Book Series in Order site:

If you’re a fan of standalone thrillers then be sure to read any of the standalones by Brad Parks. The guy is a master! I’ve read over 50 different authors of standalone thrillers in the last year and no-one stands out like Brad.

Parks has 3 standalones:

Say Nothing
Closer Than You Know
The Last Act

Let's look at the blurb for one of them, Closer Than You Know:

It was a lesson Melanie Barrick learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she’s survived into adulthood—with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex—she thought that turmoil was behind her.

Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he’s been removed by Social Services. And no one will say why. It’s a terrifying scenario for any parent, but doubly so for Melanie, who knows the unintended horrors of what everyone coldly calls “the system.”

Her nightmare grows worse when she arrives home to learn her house has been raided by sheriff’s deputies, who have found enough cocaine to send Melanie to prison for years. The evidence against her is overwhelming, and if Melanie can’t prove her innocence, she’ll lose Alex forever.

I used to have nightmare about scenarios like this when my kids were growing up. Not that somebody would plant bricks of cocaine throughout my house when I wasn't looking, but having the child protection services show up at my door and take my kids away for some bogus reason. I felt that all it would take would be one anonymous phone call from some malefactor claiming that OregonMuse abused his children and then it would be my responsibility to prove to CPS that I do NOT abuse my children and how can I prove a negative?

Fortunately, that never happened.

The Kindle edition of Closer Than You Know is $4.99, not a bad price.

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Anyone up for nordic crime thrillers? A lurking moron (Jimbro from the Hostages group blog) recommended the novels of the bestselling Norwegian author Jo Nesbø:

I recently read The Redbreast which was fantastic. The initial plot jumps around between the present (circa 2000’s) and the events of a specific WW2 campaign which directly ties in to the current story. It was a little confusing at first and the action takes place in Denmark so I wasn’t familiar with the geography. It’s the 3rd of 12 novels but stands alone with only a few notable callbacks.

The Amazon blurb is quite effusive, moreso than Amazon blurbs usually are:

The Redbreast is a fabulous installment in Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design—winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway’s book clubs—The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation’s shadowy past. Vogue magazine says that “nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than a Scandinavian thriller writer”…and nobody does it better than Jo Nesbø! James Patterson fans should also take note.

Nesbø himself sounds like quite a man: his Amazon author's page says that in addition to writing crime novels, he is also a musician, songwriter, and an economist.

The Kindle edition of The Redbreast is a reasonable $7.49. And if you like it, there are 11 other installments. in the series.

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'Ette Secret Square recommends an old classic:

The book I am currently reading is a Penguin Classics edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". So far I have been pleasantly surprised at how good it is... and how well it explains exactly what people were really thinking about the slavery issue in the early 1850s. I know it gets a bad rap for being racist and overly sentimental, and it is in parts, but it is IMO way better than its reputation and deserves to be read now more than ever. Some of the moral dilemmas and justifications that the slave owners in the book face (not all of them are portrayed as being bad people, by the way; Stowe's treatment of the slaves and their owners is much more evenhanded than one would think) could very easily be applied to issues of today like abortion and illegal immigration.

Posted by: Secret Square at September 08, 2019 09:15 AM (9WuX0)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (free on Kindle, also Gutenberg) was a runaway bestseller in its day. There were a number of versions adapted for the stage and the travelling "Tom shows" were very popular. Not all of them were faithful to the book, and the wiki entry says that some even turned it around and made it pro-slavery(!)

And Uncle Tom really wasn't an "Uncle Tom". I'd like to know how that stereotype ever got started. I like this comment:

The edition I'm reading was published in the early 80s and comes with an introduction by a lady professor of feminist bent, who says that people who criticize Uncle Tom for being too submissive and deferential to "Mas'r" are overlooking the fact that Stowe intends for him to be a Christ figure and not an ordinary man. The whole book is very much immersed in a religious sensibility that, for obvious reasons, today's snowflakes have trouble grasping. There are also instances in which Uncle Tom stands up for himself and his beliefs even (ultimately) at the cost of his own life. Additionally, there are other slave characters in the book who are quite militant about gaining their freedom by any means necessary.

Posted by: Secret Square at September 08, 2019 09:25 AM (9WuX0)

If someone is compiling a "Books Every American Should Read" list, Uncle Tom's Cabin should be at or near the top.

Books By Morons

Moron author Max Cossack (author of the political thrillers Khaybar, Minnesota and Zarah's Fire) has just published a brand new novel. Morons especially may get a kick out of it. It's a satire of political correctness called Simple Grifts: A Comedy of Social Justice.

Professor Soren Pafko has made a life and career out of lying, conniving, manipulating, and abusing everyone in his path. So far, it’s working great: he’s Chair of his College’s Department of Comparative Literature; he’s leader of the local chapter of the Democratic Communists of America; and when he wants to cheat on his wife, he’s got his pick of women who think he’s the second coming of Che Guevara. In short, his life is peachy. But when he flunks local yokel Gus Dropo’s teenage son for a politically incorrect classroom comment, everything in Professor Pafko’s world begins to go hilariously wrong.

And the price is right: just $2.99 for the eBook, $12.99 for the paperback. H/t to the lurking moron who tipped me to this. ___________

Erstwhile moron 'Mastiff' is the editor on a fantasy anthology I mentioned awhile back. The Wand that Rocks the Cradle has just been published. It's all about family:

Warm, heartbreaking, tender, poignant—eight fantasy stories of the family.

Family is filled with magic. It can be the warm magic of love, with bonds that can never be broken; it can be the bitter magic of old resentments and keen disappointments. It can be achingly beautiful or terrifyingly cruel.

Explore the hidden depths of family in this anthology of stories from celebrated and award-winning authors. Transport yourself to dazzling settings like an isolated lake cottage watched over by a mysterious protector, a reality-TV show about a family of witches, a world besieged by dragon-wielding terrorists, an oddly relaxing coffee shop, and New Orleans after the rise of the unquiet dead.

Experience the wonder and magic of family.

One of the stories in this anthology is by a moron most of you probably know, Wolfus Aurelius (as 'P.L. Sundeson').

The Wand that Rocks the Cradle: Magical Stories of Family, is available on Kindle for $4.99. It's also out in paperback.

Incidentally, several of Wolfus' other stories have wound up on a free site called Beneath the Rainbow, here and here.

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Lurking (mostly) moron River Cat, author of the novel The Book of Cain, which I pimped some months ago, has just published a novella called The Relic: A Sea Story

Chickamauga Antietam Charles, otherwise known as Chick, is an old man living in the Safe Haven homeless shelter. Lame and destitute, his only valuables are cached away in a secret pocket of his ancient pea coat. It is Christmas. He awakes to find he has been given a present by a stranger who passed through in the wee hours of the morning when all were asleep, save for one little girl who insists it was Santa. The gift is a lottery ticket. And when it hits, the others want him to share the wealth, but he has only one goal, and it obsesses him to his very marrow. He must go to Spain. To retrieve what was taken from him so many years ago—a theft that made him into the wreck he has been ever since. But to do it he must relive the sea story that started it all.

The Kindle price is $3.00.

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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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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (9/14/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

A friend told me about his trip out with his grandson. This is what he said. "Last week, I took my grandchildren to a restaurant. My 6 year-old grandson asked if he could say grace."

Kinda brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it! H/T Legally Sufficient

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There could be a newly named arena in Miami. The BBC?

The American Airlines Arena, aka The AAA, has been the home of Miami Heat since its construction in 1999. The times are changing, though, and American Airlines last year announced it was no longer looking to renew its sponsorship of the venue. A bidding war has begun, as companies jostle to become synonymous with the arena. If things go a certain online porn site's way, the Heat could soon be playing basketball games in The BangBros Center.

BangBros, a Miami-based porn site, said it has bid $10 million for 10 years of naming rights. The company said via tweet that it wishes to call the venue the BangBros Center, or BBC. You may need to UrbanDictionary what that acronym means, because the company definitely isn't alluding to the British Broadcast Corporation.

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McDonalds is looking towards using AI in the drive-thru.

McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice-based technology in its US drive-throughs.

The fast-food chain hopes the AI technology will make the ordering process more efficient.

McDonald's is implementing the technology with the help of start-up Apprente, which it acquired this week.

The move comes amid concern about workers whose jobs may become obsolete as a result of automation and new technologies.

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Tojo, the rum loving US "Airman".

Back in April 1943, in the depths of the Second World War, an American B-17 crash landed in the seaside town of Clonakilty, County Cork, southern Ireland.

Local Irish residents were astonished to find that one of the crew members who had landed in their midst wasn’t actually an American or, in fact, a human being at all.

Rather, he was a small monkey called Tojo who’d been taken from his home in Morocco and placed aboard an American war plane which went by the name of “T’ain’t a Bird”.

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How to do back flips - NOT.

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Why does one eat plant based burgers? Virtue signaling? They certainly don't sound overly healthy.

The title question is being asked by Kate Bernot at The Takeout, and it’s a good one. Before anyone starts imagining a totally meatless future (speaking of horror shows), we should figure out why so many people are flocking to plant-based “meat” like the Impossible Whopper and its cousins. Since experts are quickly concluding that these products are no healthier for you (or for the environment) than their traditional animal-based counterparts, what’s the attraction making these offerings sustainable?

(Insert record scratch sound effect here.) Whoa! Hold on one second. Did someone just say that these “impossible” foods aren’t any better for you? Wasn’t that supposed to be the whole idea? As it turns out, they’re not. So the people peddling them had better figure out another market hook if they want their businesses to continue booming.

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Once again, The ONT Is Looking Out For You ^TM

A new research, based on data collected from some 3,500 people living in Switzerland, was published Monday in the journal Heart. The research found new evidence that daytime naps may be related towards a lower risk of heart attack or stroke. There’s a catch, however: the naps should only be limited to a few times a week.

Research lead author Nadine Häusler, an internist at the University Hospital of Lausanne, stated that they looked into the lives of healthy adults. They found out that “people who take occasional naps — once or twice a week — had a lower risk for cardiovascular disease compared to people who were not napping at all.

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It has taken many years. But, it has finally happened, Bob Ross art makes it to the Smithsonian.

In 1994, Bob Ross told talk show host Phil Donahue that his paintings would likely never hang in the Smithsonian, but it looks like the famous PBS painter may have spoken too soon.

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. acquired four authentic Bob Ross paintings in March along with his original easel made from a step stool, paint brushes, and the palette used on The Joy of Painting, the now-classic public television show he hosted from 1983 to 1994, says Sarah Strohl, executive assistant at Bob Ross Inc., the company started by Ross that now manages his brand. When Strohl stumbled upon Ross’s quote about his work never hanging in the Smithsonian, she was inspired to land at least one of his paintings there. “It was through a love of Bob and also being like, ‘No Bob, you’re wrong. You need to be in the Smithsonian.”

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It now costs $350,000 a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in a big city—here’s a sad breakdown of why

Here’s a sad reality: In order to raise a family in an expensive coastal city like San Francisco or New York, you’ve now got to make $350,000 or more a year.

You can certainly live on less, but it won’t be easy if your goal is to raise a family, save for your children’s education, save for your own home and save for retirement (so you can actually retire by a reasonable age).

A middle-class lifestyle is a reasonable ask. But thanks to inflation, it has gotten a lot more expensive if you want to have children. The median wealth of middle-income Americans has stayed flat for years, at about $87,140, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances. Yet, prices for things such as housing and college tuition have risen tremendously.

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Time to put your big boy pants on.

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Any Morons participate in Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing?

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Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one. Guess orange wine is a no-go for the upper crust of New York.

Over the weekend, the New Yorker published a weird story that attempts to, once and for all, stop Big Orange Wine. In it, the author talks about visiting the land where this strange beverage has become de rigueur: an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, where (gasp!) the children’s menu has cheese older than some of its audience and all the wines are natural. And what was learned on this journey? That, uh, orange wine is not really about tasting good so much as it is about challenging your taste buds.

The story reads like one long troll, with the author describing his unpleasant experiences of drinking orange wines. He finds “undertones of acid reflux” in one, saying drinking it was “a test of stamina.” He identifies what might’ve been “a hint of Goodyear rubber” in a Sicilian wine. In talking about an orange wine he actually likes, the 2017 Domaine Glinavos Paleokerisio, he notes that some orange wine geeks actually don’t like it because of “its extreme pleasantness” and determines that orange wine mania is a trend driven by the “fervor of ideologues.” Ultimately, orange wine is just another style of fermented grape juice but “an especially dramatic example of aggressions against taste buds.” (Grub Street, for our part, likens orange wine to Bon Iver: Maybe it’s not to everyone’s taste, but there are many moments of joy to be found for the people who do like it.)

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Spilling coffee is a no-no in my book. Spilling coffee on the control panel of a jet: Genius Award Winner.

A passenger aircraft with 337 people on board was forced to divert in February after the pilot spilled coffee on the controls panel, UK investigators say.

The Airbus A330-243 from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cancun, Mexico, had to land in Shannon, Ireland, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) reports .

This was because the pilots' audio control panels (ACP) started melting and there was smoke in the cockpit.

The pilots had to use oxygen masks. There were no injuries.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Weekend Projects.

Notice: Posted with permission from someone at the Ace Media Empire. No one from AceCorp, LLC was located. No permission, no problem, eh?

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The Occasional Fishing and Hunting Thread [Bandersnatch]

—CBD

Welcome Piscators and Piscatrixes - and this time Nimrods and Nimrettes -- to the current installment of the occasional fishing and hunting thread. In fact, we may broaden this to camping, hiking, orienteering, and other worthwhile pursuits of the rugged outdoors. (If you talk about playing your PS4 in the woods, though, you're banned.).

This is Bonefish Bradley, or so he called himself. He's a guide on Andros in the Bahamas. Or was. Who knows what Dorian did. Anyway, I wanted to use this as a jumping off point to talk about guides and guiding. Guides are whores.

Huh. I guess that’s all there is to say about that.

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I have a friend from fishing circles who has moved on to wildlife photography, which has some interesting overlaps with fishing and hunting. Here's a picture he took of a wolf Eastern coyote.

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So, this guy - his name is Doug Burgess but he doesn't do self promotion so don't look for a website - has been taking fantastic pictures of critters from mostly the North Shore of Massachusetts. You get wild dogs, owls of various sorts (the way owls match their coloring to the bark of the trees they hole up in is uncanny), unusual looking fox kits, herons spearing unfortunate frogs, and sundry other fauna.

What reminds me of fishing is the tension between the desire to share and the danger of burning the spots. He'll find a litter of foxen and follow them and then people will get enough context clues (or someone he trusted will blab) and then the secret is ruined.

So, hunting...

I have done some hunting but only as much as I could figure out on my own, and that's not enough. I have paddled through marshes with a shotgun across my lap attempting to murder waterfowl. It worked sometimes. What's frustrating is that animals know hunting regs cold. Deer disappear on opening day. Up in the marsh when your kayak rounds a bend a duck will take off in terror from 50 yards away. Back at the dock next to the road a dozen mallard dinners will swim about and scoff at you.

During my fowling years I had a friend who is a chef and I'd bring her things, fish or fowl, and she'd try to figure out how to cook them. Some were successful and some less so. P.J. O'Rourke wrote something like "ducks that eat vegetation are delicious, ducks that eat fish taste like fish that's been eaten by a duck." He was on to something. Even a Cordon Bleu trained chef could not make sea ducks with teeth edible. I also made my own attempt at cooking the couple of grouse I kilt, but they're small and dry.

What I really want to do is kill Bambi. And I want to kill Bambi with my father's deer rifle. Massachusetts (where I was) is shotgun only, so I tried New Hampshire. Again, deer are freaking Einstein about hunting seasons and public land. Connecticut (where I next was) was shotgun only except on private land with landowner's permission. Which would mean knowing landowners out there where deer are. Not really me.

The thing about fishing is that it's easy to get someone to take you. It's usually a day trip, it's not much inconvenience, and if you're interested in getting started it's not hard to find someone to show you the ropes. Hunting is this weird tribal thing. People go to deer camp with their grandfather or their uncles every year. You're not going to get invited to someone's deer camp. They're drinking bourbon over a fire and reminiscing about things that are none of your business.

I still want to figure out deer hunting on my own.

Here's some quick camping content:

See that #2? That means they think it's a two man tent. Tent designers are odd people. For two people to share that tent they'd have to love each other awfully much, and if they did there isn't enough room to do anything about it. Likewise, a 3 man tent is the perfect size for two people.

Now for the fish brag pics. I was neglectful in begging for reader submissions, so this week's are scant.

Remember how we've had a couple of sturgeon pics and I've called them dinosaurs? Well, Mark Y came up with spoonbills:

Dunno if this fish has ever been discussed. Primitive. Cartilaginous. Generally tasty. Stiff enough flesh to grill. Can only snag them in Mo.waters, so it's a chore, but the payoff is huge.

Old pic, but son#2 about 20 years ago.
The female went 85#, and was full of roe.

…and then…

My son pointed out the first pic was of the smaller spoonbill! He thinks 45-50#. The attached was the big one... 85#. I'd forgotten probably because it wasn't me that caught them. Same week, I believe.

Next time I want one of you Morons to submit a coelacanth.

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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