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June 19, 2020
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Machete-Tattooed Machete Attacker Exposed.
I know I needed the break.
REMINDER: Flattening the curve always meant having higher hospitalizations now.
To recap, here are the graph features — and where we are as of June 18:
Dark black line: Hospital bed capacity, “approximately 25,000”
Red peak: The “minimal action” projection: hospitals overwhelmed by an order of magnitude, approximately 225,000 hospitalizations by the peak in late April
Orange peak: The “social distancing” projection: hospitals overwhelmed by a much smaller magnitude, approximately 90,000 hospitalizations by the peak in mid-May
Blue peak: The “stay-at-home” projection: hospitals never overwhelmed, approximately 12,000 hospitalizations by the peak in early July
June 18: Real-time data as of June 18, after recording the 10th record number of hospitalizations this month: 857 hospitalizations
These figures are for North Carolina, but it’s been more or less the same everywhere. Covid-19 has underperformed. To be fair, so has our political/journalistic class.
WHY I SIGNED “THE STATEMENT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE & THE GOSPEL:” No, I’ve not caved to the SJWs, quite the contrary. But knowing there are legions of professing Christians among Instapundit’s fine readership, many of whom are concerned about the “critical theory” turbulence currently afflicting the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention and the wider evangelical community as well, just wanted to make my position clear. Be sure and read the whole statement, as it covers the waterfront of issues that are convulsing the whole nation.
WEIRD HOW ALL THIS “ANTIRACISM” SEEMS TO COINCIDE WITH A DRAMATIC RISE IN ANTISEMITISM: Fury at Florida State University After New Student Senate President’s Antisemitic Statements Revealed. “Ahmad Daraldik — who is Palestinian-American — recently replaced a previous president of the Student Senate who was expelled for expressing conservative Catholic views.”
A BIGGER QUESTION IS HOW DID THE EXPERTS GET THE DEMAND SO WRONG? The Great Ventilator Rush: Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, engineers launched extraordinary crash programs that produced scores of ventilator designs. What will happen to them now?
BUT IT GETS A PASS BECAUSE REASONS: A Farrakhan Supporter Led the LA Black Lives Matter Rally That Became a Pogrom. “It’s no coincidence that the riots here escalated in Fairfax, the icon of the Jewish community. I saw the Watts and the Rodney King riots. They never touched a synagogue or house of prayer. The graffiti showed blatant antisemitism. It’s Kristallnacht all over again.”
THIS IS HOW THE MOVIE STARTS: Scientists use Neanderthal genes to grow tissue in a Petri dish.
WELCOME TO YEAR ZERO: Portland protesters topple statue of George Washington.
As Robert Heinlein has been quoted as saying, “A generation that doesn’t know history has no past; and no future.” And that’s just the way the “Start from zero” left likes it.
TWITTER + CNN = COMEDY GOLD: Clown World: Twitter Fact-Checks Hilarious Trump Tweet Meme on Behalf of CNN.
Sorry if you had been told there would be no math.
WEIRD, NOT MINNESOTA? Arizona, California, Texas account for bulk of heat-related deaths in U.S., CDC says.
CAN’T STAND FREE SPEECH? YOU’RE FIRED! A proposal for dealing with the young bigots now holding publishers and newspapers hostage:
So here is an idea — and I give it out there for free. One of the great moments of Ronald Reagan’s presidency was his firing of the airline traffic controllers. In August 1981, these federal employees held the public of the United States government and public hostage. Their unreasonable demands were jeopardizing the American public’s travel plans at peak holiday travel season. In one of the great stands of his presidency, Reagan overnight fired 11,000 air traffic controllers who had refused to return to work unless their demands were met. New, non-recalcitrant staff were immediately brought in to replace the deeply replaceable workers and business soon returned to normal. The President also instituted a lifetime ban on rehiring of these workers.
If publishing house after publishing house and paper after paper is going to be held hostage by the young army of bigots like the anti-Rowling brigade it is high time that somebody made an example of them. The people who cannot bear to work at a publishing house that publishes The Ickabog are a very good and agreeable place to start. There are at least 100 people at Hachette who have now identified themselves as ignorant of the tenets of a free society and utterly unsuited to the industry they have chosen to work in.
I don’t know that there should be a lifetime ban on them working in the publishing industry. Some among their number might grow up. But there should certainly be a large number of much-desired job vacancies coming up at Hachette soon.
At some point, employers in a wide variety of industries are going to have to push back against all of the safetyism that has been programmed into their young employees.
ANN ALTHOUSE ARMS HERSELF. And looks delighted at the result.
NOTHING GOOD: What Happens When the Cops Have Had Enough?
PHYSICAL GYMNASTICS CANCELLED BY MENTAL GYMNASTICS: Black Man Puts Up Exercise Ropes in Oakland. Mayor Condemns ‘Nooses’ as ‘Hate Crimes.’
IT’S MUCH WORSE THAN THE 1950S MCCARTHY ERA, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE DESCENT INTO HYSTERIA: We are living through a frenzy of conformity.
CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS AS THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN: Warren was appointed by a Republican president, Eisenhower, as was Roberts, by Bush II. Kylee Zempel details the seven decisions in which Roberts appears to be intent on leading a new “Warren Revolution” on the High Court.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 87% of Students Say Online-Only Legal Ed Is Overpriced; 61% May Reconsider Legal Career Or Take A Hiatus If Law Schools Cannot Be On Ground Due To COVID-19.
SO SUDDENLY “JUNETEENTH” IS A BIG DEAL. I’ve been wishing people a happy Juneteenth for at least a decade now. And why not celebrate a holiday where a Republican president’s general ordered Democrats to free their slaves?
“SHOULD” OR NOT, ODDS ARE THEY WON’T: Americans Should Never Again Comply With Pandemic Lockdown Orders. The obvious politicization and incompetence of our public health authorities means that people won’t listen next time the way they listened this time.
THIS ISN’T THE WAY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS REPORTING IT: Trump Campaign Ad Uses Antifa Symbol, But the Symbol Has a Disgusting Backstory…
NO, MAIL-IN VOTING IS NOT THE SAME AS ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING: Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) is the Ranking Minority Member of the House Administration Committee, which oversees the daily operations of the lower chamber of Congress and oversight of federal elections. He’s been an aggressive battler of the Democrats’ mail-in voting proposals and their proxy voting system for House members.
In the following video, Davis talks with Washington state Secretary of State Kim Wyman, who, among much else, explains why and how Nancy Pelosi’s mail-in voting proposal is a far cry from using an absentee ballot. The difference is subtle but profoundly important, according to Wyman, who oversees her state’s mail-in system, which, Oh-By-The-Way, requires voter ID to vote.
JAMES LILEKS: “I have this queasy, greasy feeling in my stomach that all these signs of the growth and enthusiasms of my beloved city will end up as reminders of something we thought would continue – but stuttered and fell. There’s a lot of turbulence in the Minneapolis psyche these days. A lot of readjusting and rebalancing. Pretty sure what the end result will be, too.”
This 1965 film, created to sell Detroit as a possible host of the 1968 Olympics, looks like something out of The Last Days of Pompeii when viewed in 2020:
Related: American Cities Take Double-Barreled Hit; How Will They Look in the Future?
WHO SAYS AMERICAN INGENUITY IS DEAD? How A Filmmaker Got The #1 Movie In America During A Pandemic. “We saw an absurd loophole in the system that at any other time would be impossible to exploit and thought it would be funny. Last year, the number one film at this time was ‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’. This year, it was a $0 budget horror film made over Zoom.”
Read the whole thing.
FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ THIS POST! The Heritage Foundation was censored by YouTube, but they are fighting back, according to The Federalist.
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WOULD HAVE BOTHERED ME: Bad News Fauci: NFL Season May Not Happen.
THUS, THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Jewish Democratic Council says it won’t back Ilhan Omar, mum on endorsing her primary opponent.
YESTERDAY CAME SUDDENLY: All your childhood memories are probably racist.
Did you know that Paul McCartney once wrote a song celebrating slavery? Well, neither did he. It took about half a century after “Penny Lane” was a hit for the Beatles before historians decided that this street in Liverpool was a legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Sir Paul wrote the song as a nostalgic ode to Penny Lane as the scene of childhood happiness “beneath the blue suburban skies.” The Liverpool-born musician could not have known, while composing the cheerful tune in the mid-1960s, that scholars would one day conclude Penny Lane was probably named in honor of James Penny, a local mariner who made his fortune in the slave trade in the 1700s. Historians have not been able to prove this as a certainty, but the mere possibility was enough to inspire vandals to deface a sign in Liverpool with graffiti: “RACIST Lane.”
History is a horror show for liberals, who only look to the past in search of grievances they can exploit in their remorseless quest for political power. The liberal has a quasi-religious faith in Progress, which means that yesterday — another McCartney song title — was self-evidently worse than today. The past was a bad time, according to liberals, who see nothing there but oppression. Your nostalgia for the pleasant memories of childhood is almost certainly racist, and probably also sexist and homophobic. Now that I think about it, didn’t McCartney’s lyrics in “Get Back” mock someone who “thought she was a woman, but she was another man”? Isn’t this the textbook definition of transphobic hate speech?
Even the Beatles may not be immune from The Great Forgetting:
As the Who suit up for what I suppose will be their final tour (“Who’s Left”?), Chuck Klosterman points out in his book But What if We’re Wrong? that whole forms die out. He compares rock to 19th-century marching music: nothing left of the latter except John Philip Sousa. That’s it. And Sousa himself is barely remembered. In 100 years rock might be gone too, Klosterman guesses. Maybe we’ll remember one rock act. Who will it be? Maybe none of the obvious answers. It certainly wasn’t obvious at the time of Fitzgerald’s death that The Great Gatsby would be the best-remembered novel he or anyone else wrote in the first half of the 20th century. As for the novels of the second half of the 20th century, the clock is ticking on them. The Catcher in the Rye is moribund. Generation X was the last to revere that book. Teaching it to young people today would get you ridiculed. To Kill a Mockingbird? It had a good run but it’s now being labeled a “white savior” story by the grandchildren of those who revered it. Soon schools and teachers will be shunning it.
To Kill a Mockingbird? Atticus Finch is literature’s most celebrated rape apologist!
DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF ORPHANED OIL WELLS IN THE U.S.? Me neither until I read this thoughtful analysis from the Institute for Energy Research. Turns out there is some creative, free-market thinking and doing on the problem.
I ALSO CALLED BIDEN AND WITHDREW MY NAME LAST NIGHT: Amy Klobuchar drops out of Biden VP contention. After all, I had about as much chance as she did at that point.
JUDGE QUESTIONS $30 MILLION TRIAL LAWYER FEE: Trial lawyers who won the huge ($117.5 million)Yahoo Breach MDL settlement claim they should get $30 million. The judge in the case says she has a few questions about how they arrived at that preposterous figure.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD AGAINST RACISM: Support grows for UCLA prof suspended for not giving preferential treatment to black students.
NOTHING SAYS COMMITMENT LIKE ADDING ANOTHER ADMINISTRATIVE LINE: FSU professors demand VP of ‘Anti-Racism.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Polls Are Getting Worse for Trump, Which Probably Means He Wins in a Landslide. “In a Briefing last month, I wondered whether anyone believed the polls even though I knew the question was largely rhetorical for devoted readers here. Well, maybe not for our regular trolls, but they believed the polls in 2016 too and that’s a big part of what made election night so delicious. That’s why we keep the trolls around, for moments like that. And for the clicks.”
AS THIS DRAGS ON, IT WILL QUICKLY BECOME MORE DAMAGING AND PAINFUL TO CORNELL LAW SCHOOL THAN TO ITS VICTIM: Prof. Jacobson: “How long it goes on, I don’t know. I’m certainly not going to quit.”
A LOOK AT HOW ANTIFA OPERATES. They’re well organized.
DANIEL HOROWITZ: Atlanta shooting exposes the lie of BLM.
BLM: Blood libels matter.
They matter because when a dangerous lie criminalizing all police and victimizing every black criminal is allowed to metastasize, it turns America into a violent, lawless nation, harming the very people that movement purports to champion. The new rioting over what appears to be an act of self-defense on the part of an Atlanta cop demonstrates that this movement was never about justice for George Floyd.
The reason why the video showing the killing of George Floyd sparked so much outrage is precisely because it was so anomalous in police encounters. The video appears to show Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin kneeling, presumably with a lot of pressure, on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, in a contained situation long after Floyd had been subdued.
Well, now we know that the outrage was not over that anomalous act. What the latest blood libel in Atlanta demonstrates is that those pushing the lie seek to criminalize basic police work and lionize career criminals who needlessly escalate arrests into violent altercations, often killing others.
If the goal is to increase lawlessness until people willingly give up their liberties in exchange for (illusory) safety, then it all makes sense.
DON’T TRUST CHINA, CHINA IS ASSHOLE: China develops weapons to fry US electric grid, eyes high-tech ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack.
STEPMOTHER OF EX-ATLANTA OFFICER WHO SHOT RAYSHARD BROOKS FIRED FROM JOB:
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported the stepmother of the former Atlanta police officer charged with fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks last week has been fired from her job.
Carlson said a “source familiar with the matter” told his show that Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of Garrett Rolfe, was let go from an Atlanta-based company called Equity Prime Mortgage, where she had been human resources director.
“Rolfe was promised that her job was safe, but today she was told, and we’re quoting, ‘We have to terminate our relationship with you.’ No other explanation was offered,” he said.
Carlson said, “apparently,” her “only crime was being officer Rolfe’s stepmother.” He noted that Rolfe has been scrubbed from the company’s website.
The Washington Examiner checked, and she does not appear on the website’s leadership page. But, using the Wayback Machine, the Washington Examiner did find her listed as recently as May.
Related: “Among the most shocking of North Korea’s human rights abuses is the ‘three generations of punishment’ rule. If one person is found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison camp, so too will their entire family, and the subsequent two generations born at the camp must remain there for life.”
WELL, YES: ‘Naive’ Europe must snub China if it refuses market access, says ex-Nato chief.
But he called on Europe to prepare to take a stronger stance and move parts of its supply chains from China to “stable and reliable” alternatives if China failed to offer reciprocity for the European Union.
“Europeans have been too naive for too long,” said Rasmussen, a former prime minister of Denmark who led Nato, the transatlantic security alliance, from 2009 to 2014.
“We had all hoped that we could live harmoniously and that over time engaging with China would lead to it being more like Hong Kong. Unfortunately, under [Chinese President] Xi Jinping it is Hong Kong that has become more like China.”
The EU tends to act mercantilist when negotiating with the US, but too often bends the knee for China.
Unchecked executive authority was just one of the many abuses the Founders tried to guard against, but I guess certain justices missed that day in conlaw.
STREISAND EFFECT: Revealed: The British NBC journalist and anti-cyber bullying charity ‘behind’ Google’s decision to demonetize Zero Hedge and threaten The Federalist. “Adele-Momoko Fraser is a British journalist with two years of experience.”
Journalist? You spelled Democratic Party activist with a byline incorrectly.
WHICH HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE, RELIGION OR ATHEISM: The answer may not be what you think, regardless which side you go with. And please play nice in the comments!
OH: Google’s Go-To ‘Conservative’ Influencer List Who Claim ‘Big Tech Bias Is a Good Thing.’ “The list (at the bottom of this article) includes key conservative influencers from major think tanks and publications – some of whom are believed to be beneficiaries of large Google donations.”
BAN ALL THE BREAKFASTS! Cream of Wheat launches ‘immediate review’ of brand’s packaging.
Related: Aunt Jemima’s Great-Grandson Enraged Her Legacy Will Be Erased.
WATCHING? I HOPE HE’S SWEATING: Intelligence Analyst Is Going to Prison for Leaking Classified Intel to NBC. Is Comey Watching?
ANALYSIS: TRUE. If You Can Go to the Grocery Store, You Can Go to the Polls.
June 18, 2020
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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Wait. The Florida Gaters’ ‘Gator Bait’ Chant is Racist Now?!
The family of Andrew Chatfield gesture after Chatfield signed with the University of Florida on national signing day in Plantation, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. From left are Candy Diggs, Tiaunte Diggs and Lamont Green. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
As the destruction of the George Floyd riots has largely subsided, leftists have launched a new coordinated Cancel Culture. A soccer player got fired for his wife’s tweet, a church lost its lease over a pastor “liking” supposedly insensitive tweets, and New York Times op-ed editor James Bennet stepped down amid outrage that he published an op-ed by a U.S. senator, among many other examples. Some have even targeted black celebrities for refusing to toe the line when it comes to the institutional racism narrative.
Yet the “Gator Bait” cancelation may be among the worst and most petty. [University of Florida President Kent Fuchs] did not explain the “horrific racist imagery” supposedly associated with the chant. It seems he merely sought out an excuse to make an absurd gesture. In doing so, he is robbing UF’s culture to appease an angry mob. It seems far more likely this decision will incite an angry mob … of Gators.
Fuchs is praying that he’ll be eaten by the, err, gators last.
JIM TREACHER: The Good Place Producer Megan Amram Grovels for Forgiveness Over Bad Tweets. “Uh-oh. Looks like somebody’s got some bad tweets in her closet, and some complete rando dug ’em out to humiliate her and get her canceled. So you know what that means: Time to grovel!”
WE MUST STOP THE GREAT UNRAVELING:
There is one way to stop the unraveling: Refuse the mob. We have seen again and again that the mob comes only for those who hope to please it. And when it does, no amount of apology will save you. We stand against the mob and all its aims. We stand against the chaos and violence, the silencing of debate, the purging of heretics, the rewriting of history, and the destruction of the greatest country in the world. We will defend the most majestic achievement of humankind, the United States of America, against the most ignoble impulse in human history, to tear down that which is good.
Read the whole thing.
RECOVERING FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Romania Passes Law Banning Gender Studies, Following Hungary and Poland.
FLORIDA MACHETE MAN: Man with machete tattoo on face accused of machete attack.
WELL, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF A REUSABLE SPACECRAFT: NASA says SpaceX can reuse Crew Dragon capsules and rockets on astronaut missions.
RIP: Dame Vera Lynn, Singer Of Timeless Classics In WWII-Era Britain, Dies At 103.
At the suggestion of Peter Sellers, Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” was used “with savage irony,” the Grauniad notes, for the closing orgy of mushroom clouds at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove:
FIRE THEM, AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE OTHERS: Publishing Staff Threatens To Strike If Company Keeps J.K. Rowling’s Book.
BABYLON BERLIN: Report: German Officials Placed Children with Known Paedophiles For 30 Years.
The director of adult education at Pedagogical Centre was Helmut Kentler (1928-2008), a social scientist, who argued that sex between adults and children was a crucial part to healthy sexual development, saying that “in some cases almost something like a gentler form of social work”.
A popular figure in Germany’s sexual revolution in the 1960s, Kentler often authored ‘expert’ reports for the Berlin Senate and his books on ‘sexual liberation’ were bestsellers at the time. Indeed, Deutsche Welle notes how the change in attitudes towards child sexuality in Germany at this time was part of the 1968 revolution that swept Europe and worked to throw aside all tradition and conventional wisdom, including the idea that children should not have sex with adults.
Deutsche Welle notes the era, which spawned these ideas, was a “dark legacy of all that 1968 stood for.”
1968, eh? Flashback: France’s Gabriel Matzneff Flap is a Cautionary Tale for Cultural Aristocrats.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: AOC Takes Vow Of Silence To End Racism, Immediately Gains Bipartisan Support.
IF THE RIOTS AND OTHER CRAZINESS ARE GETTING YOU DOWN, read Kurt Schlichter’s column. I think he’s basically right here.
CRASHING THE ECONOMY DIDN’T WORK, WHICH IS WHY THEY’RE TRYING RIOTS: 53% of Americans now describe their personal finances as excellent or good: Gallup poll. Only 14% say there personal finances are poor.
WE SHOULD REALLY SEPARATE RACE AND STATE, BUT MEANWHILE HERE’S THE STORY OF How People from India Almost Became White.
I THINK WE NEED SOME NEW TORT LAW TO DEAL WITH OUR CULTURE OF MOBBING AND SNITCHING: When Your Private Dinner Conversation Becomes Your Waiter’s Facebook Post. Though I wonder if existing doctrines couldn’t reach some of this stuff. Even a few lawsuits would probably discourage the worst misbehavior.
ROGER SIMON: Segregation: It’s Bad and It’s Back.
The second not-so-hidden intention in all this on the part of both parties—the black separatists and their white social justice acolytes—is, for purposes of their own power, to create racism where it doesn’t exist.
Trying to convince people who aren’t racist that they are is one of the best and most efficient ways imaginable to make them one.
Racism is being manufactured before our eyes across America, indeed across the world.
Segregation is the handmaiden of racism. It makes it go. Keep the races apart and keep them hating each other.
Some of us who were involved in the original civil rights movement remember “Black and white together, we shall not be moved…”. That is no more.
Now it should be written “Black power advocates and SJWs together, we shall overcome some day.” Make that: “We have overcome!”
George Wallace has gotten his wish.
Related: What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it.
THE PARTY OF COMPASSION, TOLERANCE, AND CARING ABOUT THE CHILDREN: Liberals React to Rep. Matt Gaetz’s Announcement About Adopted Son Nestor With Disgusting Homophobic Tweets.
FAKE NEWS ON FILM: Finally, a Dramatic Film Tackles Walter Duranty’s Lies in the New York Times.
Once in Moscow, Jones realizes that Stalin’s collectivization is a fraud perpetrated by a criminal government and propped up by sympathetic journalists from the West. These include one Walter Duranty, the oleaginous, established correspondent for The New York Times. Duranty is played to slimy effect by Peter Sarsgaard, who coincidentally also played Charles Lane, the editor of the exposed New Republic fabulist Stephen Glass, in Shattered Glass (2003). Duranty strikes entire pages of copy that don’t uphold the official Soviet view. The journalist Joseph Alsop once called Duranty a “fashionable prostitute” for the Bolsheviks, and to British writer Malcolm Muggeridge, who was blackballed by many British newspapers after reporting the truth from Russia, Duranty was “the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in fifty years of journalism.” But the Soviet sympathizer won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his exclusive interviews with Stalin. To defend everything from mass starvation to the show trials of 1928, 1934, and 1936, Duranty had a simple response, parroting Robespierre: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
A hedonist who walked with a cane after losing a leg in a train accident, Duranty is shown throwing parties filled with jazz, opium, and lots of naked bodies. One of the funniest and most unsettling scenes in Mr. Jones comes when Jones is confronted by a naked Duranty at one such bacchanal. Duranty, irritated that Jones keeps asking the wrong questions and isn’t interested in sleeping with one of the women at the party, calls him a nobody. “I must be somebody,” Jones retorts. “I’m standing in front of the naked Moscow correspondent of The New York Times.” Director Holland conveys claustrophobic environments well, whether in a parlor-room party or a train packed with starving Ukrainians.
Read the whole thing. Further thoughts from Christian Toto, with a video assist from PJM co-founder Roger Simon.
Mr. Jones is available for streaming starting tomorrow from The Loft Cinema. Hopefully it will eventually be available in other formats and/or platforms.
With Mr. Jones, and the 2017 black comedy The Death of Stalin (currently available on Netflix), a few of Hollywood’s missing movies are finally being tackled.
THE DEMAND FOR HATE IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: ‘Nooses’ In Oakland Park Were Exercise Aids, Man Says:
The Police Department provided five photographs of trees, some of which showed knotted ropes and one that appeared to have a piece of plastic pipe attached to a rope, hanging from tree limbs.
They have been removed by city officials.
Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.
“Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create,” Sengbe said.
“It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to have a good time got misinterpreted into something so heinous,” he told the station.
Flashback: Facebook friends each reported nooses at different colleges. One was a damaged power cable.
HE WAS HONEST ON TEN OCCASIONS? 10 Times Barack Obama Acknowledged That DACA Was Unconstitutional.
People who think silence is violence have never experienced actual violence. They should hope to remain so ignorant and sheltered in the future.
Plus, from the comments: “So my tactic of telling these petty tyrants ‘Fuck off’ isn’t violence, at least.” Well, it’s not silence, so . . .
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC 1926! Trump Campaign Investigates Ancient Origins of Joe Biden’s ‘Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier’ Gaffe (Video):
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: 3-D Metal Printing Gaining Traction.
I’M STARTING TO DETECT A PATTERN:
It’s almost as if Republicans and conservatives aren’t the problem.
DECOUPLING: US wants undersea data cable to skip Hong Kong.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING, PART DEUX: Mexican-American Accused of Making ‘White Power’ Sign by Overzealous SJW is Fired. “Cafferty is Mexican-American and says he comes from a diverse family of all races. He says he’s proud of SDG&E for taking any allegations of racism seriously, but he wants his job back…Cafferty is just another casualty of an overzealous social justice warrior. He should file a wrongful termination lawsuit against SDG&E.”
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