AND DON’T GET COCKY: Don’t Get Cocky: Republican Election Hurdles for November.
VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. IT VERY WELL MIGHT: DNC: ‘Top Sekret Plan for Midterms’.
AND NO ONE IS ASKING THESE IN THE MSM: Migrant Caravan Mystery Questions Need Answers.
WORSE, THEY UNLEASHED MOBS OF THE MENTALLY ILL. AND THEY DON’T CARE SO LONG AS THEY GET POWER: The Democrats Threw Open Pandora’s box And Unleashed An Out Of Control Mob.
OF COURSE WHAT THEY WON IS A MASSIVE LOSS FOR THE STATE, AND MAYBE THE WHOLE NATION: Anti-Vaxxers Bully the State of Arizona and Win.
THIS IS WHY THE BABYLON BEE IS BECOMING AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: PETA Claims Milk Drinkers Are White Supremacists
TIME TRAVELERS TAKE HEED: Saturday the 13th: Tale of another failed Hitler assassination.
October 21, 2018
ROSS DOUTHAT ON European Elites And African Babies: “So why are they creeping back into the discussion? For three reasons: Because African birthrates haven’t slowed as fast as Western experts once expected, because European demographics are following Macron’s Law toward the grave, and because European leaders are no longer nearly so optimistic about assimilating immigrants as even a few short years ago. . . . This trend would have revived a certain kind of population-bomb anxiety no matter what, but the anxiety in Europe is a little more specific than that — because over the same period, Europe’s population is likely to drop by about one hundred million. (Western Europe’s leaders are a vanguard here: Neither Macron nor Angela Merkel nor Theresa May have any biological children.) In the late 1990s Europe and Africa had about the same population; a hundred years later there could be seven Africans for every European. And the experience of recent refugee crises has demonstrated to European leaders both how easily populations can move northward, and how much harder assimilation may be than they once hoped.”
COLLECTION: Leftist Attacks On Prominent Republicans.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should You Have Knee Replacement Surgery?
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Bidders cry foul after Cuomo donor lands $1B Coliseum contract.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HOPED: North Dakota women could buy marijuana-infused ‘inserts’ for menstrual pain if recreational measure passes.
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JONATHAN TURLEY: Bar Complaint Filed Against Counsel For Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Note the change: Democrat operatives used to get a way scot-free once the story dropped out of the news. Now, not so much.
LOOK UNDER THE SOFA CUSHIONS, THAT’S WHERE MINE USUALLY TURNS UP: A neuroscientist who lost her mind says it can happen to anyone.
KEVIN WILLIAMSON ON THE WITCHES OF BROOKLYN, putting hexes on Brett Kavanaugh to make him “suffer:” Emotionally healthy adults do not wish to inflict suffering on people over political disagreements.
Dakota Bracciale, owner of the shop, tells Newsweek: “We know the system is broken, and the people in charge need to be taken down by any means necessary, magical or otherwise. . . . This is basically Antifa witches — we’re coming for these people’s throats.”
Question: Does that sound like a disagreement about politics to you?
Occasionally, our friends on the left do us the favor of making plain that which conservative critics have inferred about their ranks: that they are intellectually unserious, that they are damaged, that they are high on rage, that they have made a religion of politics. Father Gary Thomas, an exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose who may be taking the Catland gang more seriously than they deserve, will be saying a special Mass to counter the proffered hex. One welcomes the efforts of a Catholic priest who takes his faith seriously enough to invite ridicule — a fool for Christ, as Paul put it. But in much the same way that it is difficult to imagine the Almighty choosing the likes of Jerry Falwell as His emissary, it is difficult to imagine the other guy choosing as his agents a couple of sad dopes in Brooklyn — not in a world in which Kim Jong-un and Taylor Swift exist.
Read the whole thing.
THE PEOPLE WHO CAST THE VOTES DECIDE NOTHING. THE PEOPLE WHO COUNT THE VOTES DECIDE EVERYTHING. The New Democrat Strategy: Win Secretary of State Elections First.
(Classical reference in headline.)
WHERE DID IT COME FROM? Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn.
THE SEARS BANKRUPTCY: A lot has been written in the last few days about how Sears’ mail order business (mostly inadvertently) helped subvert Jim Crow. But don’t forget the importance of Sears President Julius Rosenwald’s efforts to address Jim Crow head on. He used his immense wealth to fund thousands of “Rosenwald schools” to educate African Americans throughout the rural South. Just one more capitalist hero …
A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION MASQUERADING AS A POLITICAL PARTY: Two Democrats running for office from behind bars.
(Classical reference in headline.)
GREAT MOMENTS IN TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY. NPR: How Do We Talk to the Dangerous Idiots Who Disagree With Us?
OF COURSE, OBAMA GOT “SHELLACKED” IN THAT ELECTION: Trump approval jumps ahead of Obama’s midterm approval rating.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: 12 foods you can buy in bulk that will last until the end of world.
I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN-AGE MILLENNIAL.
PREDICTION: BEFORE THE CENTURY IS OUT, AETHER WILL TURN OUT TO BE A THING. The Eternal Quest for Aether, the Cosmic Stuff That Never Was.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE A REFUGEE: 500 caravan members voluntarily return to Honduras: ‘There were unruly people, I was disappointed.’
IN THE MAIL: From Frank Hauser and Russell Reich, Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director’s Chair.
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE: Hackers Launch ‘Poison Campaigns’ Targeting Search Engines Ahead of Midterms.
IS THERE A SINGLE LAME LEFTY TALKING POINT THAT THIS TWERP HASN’T HIT YET? In campus speech, David Hogg says U.S. is stolen land, justifies illegal immigration.
HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT ON ACCOUNT OF SEX: Brown University flaunts ‘Unlearning Toxic Masculinity’ guide.
WITH SAUDI HYSTERIA REPLACING “RUSSIANS UNDER MY BED!” HYSTERIA, it falls to Glenn Greenwald, of all people, to remind the news media that the U.S. has always ignored Saudi atrocities, even when The Lightworker was president:
A SHOCKING BREAK WITH MONTHS OF TRADITION: “The Trump administration is weighing a change that would require individuals to identify as male or female based on their genitalia at birth.”
PAUL BEDARD: Trump report card: Public ignores Saudi scandal, boost president to polling high.
When Saudis kill a Saudi in Turkey, it’s not hugely resonant. Sure, top American journalists care — because he was not just a journalist (the Saudis have killed plenty of those, as have the Turks, the Chinese, the Russians . . .) but one they knew personally. But hardly anyone thinks that the Saudis are nice people; they’re allies of convenience, not of sentiment. If they help us beat Iran, fine, but nobody thought they were our friends before.
MARINES COME ASHORE IN NORWAY: Assault amphibious vehicles approach the beach in Bogen, Norway. Photo snapped on Oct. 17, 2018 during Exercise Northern Screen.
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: GOP Women’s Group Attacking Trump Funded Solely by Male Democratic Donor.
Imagine the perfect political and intellectual weapon. It would disable your adversaries by preoccupying them with their own vanities and squabbles, a bit like a drug so good that users focus on the high and stop everything else they are doing.
Such a weapon exists: It is called political correctness. But it is not a weapon against white men or conservatives, as is frequently alleged; rather, it is a weapon against the American left. To put it simply, the American left has been hacked, and it is now running in a circle of its own choosing, rather than focusing on electoral victories or policy effectiveness. Too many segments of the Democratic Party are self-righteously talking about identity politics, and they are letting other priorities slip.
Of course there is a lot of racism out there, which makes political correctness all the more tempting. Yet polling data suggests that up to 80 percent of Americans are opposed to politically correct thinking in its current manifestations. Latinos and Asian-Americans are among the groups most opposed, and even 61 percent of self-professed liberals do not like political correctness.
The PC weapon reared its head again this week when Senator Elizabeth Warren made a big show of her genealogical test showing she is some small part Native American. To someone immersed in the political correctness debates, this obsession with identity might seem entirely natural. But the actual reality is more brutal.
The reality is that many Americans already think that the Democrats talk too much about identity.
Well, that’s because they do.
I’M GONNA GO WITH BY WHAT SUITS THE CURRENT MEDIA/DEMOCRATIC NARRATIVE: How Do We Define Who’s “Meddling” In Elections?
October 20, 2018
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL SEEM TO BE IMPORTANT TOOLS: How Does The Art World Live With Itself?
“PRIVILEGE” MEANS “PRIVATE LAW”: Sarah Hoyt says Demand an End to Liberal Privilege
WELL, THIS STINKS: Hospital laundering fails to kill diarrhea spores, study finds.
FUNNY, THAT WAS MY EXCUSE FOR NOT APPEARING IN ANY SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS THIS YEAR: Amy Schumer won’t appear in any Super Bowl ads in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick.
WELL, THIS SHOULD BOOST ITS BOX OFFICE IN FLYOVER COUNTRY: First Man star Claire Foy calls Donald Trump ‘the giant penis of America.’
So much for the left portraying Trump as a uniquely vulgar individual.
Related: Friday Box Office: ‘Star Is Born’ Tops ‘Venom’ And ‘First Man’ Drops 57%.
THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: The Right Finds the Perfect Weapon Against the Left — Conservatives are using identity politics to destroy liberalism from within.
Saul Alinsky smiles.
THE KIND OF LEARNING YOU’D JUST AS SOON SKIP: Advice From Health Care’s Power Users.
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: “We obtained an email sent by [Kyrsten Sinema] among many crazy conspiracies, she accuses the then President Bush of: ‘Putting arsenic in our water.’ ‘Crowning himself King of the World for Life.’ ‘Stealing all of our civil liberties.’”
Additional emails show that Sinema “was behind a protest to free José Padilla, also known as Muhajir Abdullah, who was convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists. Padilla was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, on suspicion of plotting a radiological bomb attack.”
Related: “Population Connection, formerly known as Zero Population Growth, describes itself as ‘America’s voice for population stabilization’ and has said that families should be ‘taxed to the hilt’ for ‘irresponsible breeding.’ Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show the fringe group’s political arm, Population Connection Action Fund, has donated to six Democratic Senate candidates this election cycle: Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Jon Tester of Montana, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.”
WHAT IS THE ‘NPC’ MEME? LIBERALS RAGE AT CARTOONS MOCKING THEIR SCRIPTED THOUGHTS.
IF YOU CAN HEAR THE WHISTLE, YOU’RE THE DOG: NBC’s John Harwood says that President Donald Tump has added to his secret lexicon of racist dog whistles – the new addition is “mob.”
Well, it’s Democratic operative with a byline John Harwood after he was issued his talking points from 2018’s equivalent to the Journolist, so what did you expect? But how would NBC rate “mob” as a dog whistle up against “golf” and “Chicago,” which were spotted by NBC’s Bletchley Park-level racial decoder equipment in 2012?
Earlier: The Left Had No Problem Labeling the Tea Party a ‘Mob.’
(Classical reference in headline.)
THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW; Biohackers Are Implanting Everything From Magnets to Sex Toys.
MISSION OF MERCY: Teen drives seven hours round trip to deliver pizza to a dying man.
WELL, THAT’S ITS JOB: The Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is Spectacular.
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STANDING UP AGAINST MADNESS: Diners Confront Mitch McConnell at Restaurant, Get Told To “Leave Him Alone” by Others.
SKYNET SAYS RELAX, DON’T WORRY: Former Head of Google China Foresees an AI Crisis—and Proposes a Solution.
SURELY THERE MUST BE A WAY TO DRAG TRUMP INTO THIS: Jerry Wolkowitz, a freelance photographer who prosecutors say was brutally beaten and assaulted because of his race, has died six months after the attack in the parking lot of his apartment.
“The investigation determined that the defendant targeted the victim because of his race,” Swendeman said at the time, adding that Hubbard, who is black, and Wolkowitz, who is white, did not know each other.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: China Wants to Replace Streetlights With a Trio of Artifical Moons.
WAS THERE NOTHING IT COULDN’T DO? Sears’ ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogs subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow.
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Oldest Working Man In Texas Turns 101, Still Drinks Two Dr. Peppers A Day.
STRANGE WOMEN LYING IN PONDS DISTRIBUTING SWORDS IS NO BASIS FOR A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake — people are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur.
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU’RE SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS. Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It.
THE BRINK’S ROBBERY/TRIPLE MURDER WAS ON THIS DAY IN 1981: Please keep in your thoughts Brink’s guard Peter Paige and Nyack police officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown (who was Nyack’s first African-American officer). All three were murdered in the course of the 1981 Brink’s heist. Also remember Brink’s guard Joseph Trombino, who was seriously wounded, but survived, only to be killed twenty years later on 9/11.
The perpetrators were six members of the Black Liberation Army and four former members of Weather Underground who had since formed the May 19th Communist Organization.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the trial of the first three defendants (one from the BLA and two from the M19CO):
Gilbert, Weems, and Clark were the first of the Brink’s robbers to go to trial. Because the BLA was known for attempting to break their members out of prison … massive security precautions were undertaken, turning the courthouse … into a heavily armed compound. … All three defendants declined assistance from defense lawyers and chose to represent themselves. Their contention was that since they did not recognize the authority of the United States, the government had no right to put them on trial. Throughout the trial, they repeatedly disrupted the proceedings by shouting anti-US slogans, proclaiming to be “at war” with the government and refusing to respect any aspect of the US legal system. They called the robbery an “expropriation” of funds that were needed to form a new country in a few select southern states that ideally would be populated only by African Americans.
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Rockland County D.A. Kenneth Gribetz told reporters: “Our goal is to see that these people, who have contempt for society and have shown no remorse, will never see the streets of society again!” Judge Ritter apparently agreed. On October 6, 1983, he sentenced each defendant to three consecutive twenty-five year-to-life sentences, making them eligible for parole in the year 2058. After the trial, Weems claimed, “As to the seventy five years in prison, I am not really worried, not only because I am in the habit of not completing sentences or waiting on parole or any of that nonsense but also because the State simply isn’t going to last seventy five or even fifty years.” He died in prison from AIDS in 1986. Gilbert and Clark remain in prison. In September 2006, Clark was granted a new trial by a judge … in a district court on grounds that she had no representation at trial. On January 3, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a unanimous decision, reversed the district court’s judgment granting a new trial. The Second Circuit panel noted that she chose to represent herself and defaulted any claim by failing to appeal until after the time for appeals had expired. In December 2016, Gov. Andrew Cuomo commuted Clark’s sentence to 35 years, citing “exceptional strides in self-development,” Clark is eligible for parole as of 2017.
M19CO member Kathy Boudin was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years to life. She was paroled in 2003 and later hired by Columbia University, where she is now an assistant professor and co-founder/co-director of Columbia’s Center for Justice. Peter Paige, Edward O’Grady, and Waverly Brown could not be reached for comment.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: After Tucson, will media tone it down?
—Headline, CNN.com, January 17, 2011.
● Chaser: HOLY S*IT: New editorial cartoon shows Kyrsten Sinema shooting down ex-combat pilot Martha McSally.
—Twitchy, last night.
In this superheated political environment, I eagerly await Paul Krugman’s condemnation of an illustration that goes “far beyond politics as usual.”
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Occasional Cortex*: We Must Use the Blueprint From Defeating the Nazis to Defeat Global Warming.
Describing global warming as the moral equivalent of WWII? How new and original!
* Hat tip, Sarah Hoyt.
GOOD. SMUG SJW VIRTUE-SIGNALLING SHOULD NOT BE INDULGED: Swedish student who grounded deportation flight faces prosecution. She’s a bad person, not any sort of hero.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NEEDS MORE ADULT SUPERVISION: SD House of Representatives Majority Leader Lee Qualm (R) sent the state’s Board of Regents 19 questions aimed to help lawmakers craft legislation that would promote free speech on campus.
ROMANIAN PUMA: An armed Romanian IAR 330 Puma Socat helicopter provides air support for Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division and Romanian tank crews during an exercise in Smardan, Romania,
WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES. Plot Twist: It looks urine might take down a politician in 2018, but it’s not the one Dems were hoping for. “Fox News is reporting that Sen. Claire McCaskill’s husband, Joseph Shepard, was accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife… And it gets worse. According to the report, Shepard verbally abused her, punched her in the chest and … wait for it … peed on her.”
Why is the Democratic party such a cesspit of violence and abuse?
(Classical reference in headline.)
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FESTERING INTELLECTUAL POISON: Cultural Marxism Is the Main Source of Modern Confusion—and It’s Spreading.
It’s all Gramscian Damage. And by the way, if you’ve never followed the link and actually read the Gramscian Damage piece, you really should. It explains so much.
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Attacked ‘Bullshit’ Stay-At-Home Moms For ‘Leeching Off Their Husbands.’
Related: From the “Republicans Pounce!” School Of Journalism: Kyrsten Sinema’s Hilary Rosen Moment, and Her Persistent Verbal Flubbery.
They’re not “flubs” or botched jokes — the quotes from Sinema are what she honestly believed at the time she uttered them, and likely still does. As Michael Kinsley famous said, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” Or at least his or her personal “truth,” to borrow from former NJ governor Jim McGreevy.
POLITICO STARTS COOLING THE MARKS: Mueller report PSA: Prepare for disappointment.