The #Friday office 🎃 pic.twitter.com/K3I0W9AzrL
— Alex Curry (@Alex_Curry) October 30, 2020
Friday, October 30, 2020
Alex Curry, Dang!
Mark Levin Absolutely Explodes
Man, I like Mark Levin, but sheesh, he needs some mood stabilizers or something.
Dang!
My appearance on Hannity TV last night pic.twitter.com/ghhC7M85bE
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 30, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Trump Gets Late Election Bounce with Florida's Democrat-Leaning Colombian Constituency
More on Florida, at Foreign Policy.
Just watch Florida next Tuesday. Florida's results should come right around at 5:00pm, and absentee ("mail-in") ballots are counted before election day. We'll know who's winning in the Sunshine State.
The rest is all fluff. Well, actually, if Trump wins both Florida and Pennsylvania ... well, it's going to be a laugh riot.
See, "In Florida, Many Colombian Americans Fear Biden Is Soft on Socialism."
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
What If Biden Loses Florida?
He's toast, says Nate Silver.
But you gotta click through, at Althouse, for the link.
Trump Up 48-to-44 in Florida?
So that's why the leftist "Latinx" journos at LAT are alarmed.
See, "For Latinos, combating disinformation about the election often starts at home."
Hmm. Florida Hispanics are Cuban. There might be some newer arrivals from other countries, but like Cubans, they're also escaping communism and tyranny. With the Democrats going so far left this year, and the anarchy of antifa and Black Lives Matter, this poll, at AoSHQ, is not surprising.
See, "American Greatness Poll: Trump Takes Four Point Lead in Florida."
Pamela Horn, Country House Society
Sunday, October 25, 2020
V-Shaped Recovery in U.S. Manufacturing
A couple eager for a kitchen upgrade sold their existing refrigerator, stove and dishwasher, planning to replace them immediately. They were shocked to find out new appliances would be out of stock for months. https://t.co/6uBdrLjchM
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 25, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
What We learned from Tony Bobulinski
From Kim Strassel, at WSJ, "The Biden ‘Family Legacy":
Here we go: https://t.co/SukHlG1zGs
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) October 22, 2020
Joe Biden has a problem, and his name is Hunter. Because the former vice president hasn’t had to answer any questions on this topic—and continued to refuse to do so in Thursday’s debate—that problem could soon become America’s.
That’s the reality now that a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s has come forward to provide the ugly details of the “family brand.” Tony Bobulinski, a Navy veteran and institutional investor, has provided the Journal emails and text messages associated with his time as CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, a venture between the Bidens and CEFC China Energy, a Shanghai-based conglomerate. That correspondence corroborates and expands on emails recently published by the New York Post, which says they come from a Hunter laptop.
In a statement, Mr. Bobulinski said he went public because he wants to clear his name, which was contained in those published emails, and because accusations that the information is fake or “Russian disinformation” are “offensive.” He attests that all the correspondence he provided is genuine, including documents that suggest Hunter was cashing in on the Biden name and that Joe Biden was involved. Mr. Bobulinski says he was also alarmed by a September report from Sen. Ron Johnson that “connected some dots” on the CEFC deal, causing him now to believe the Bidens sold out their U.S. partners.
Mr. Bobulinski’s text messages show he was recruited for the project by James Gilliar, a Hunter associate. Mr. Gilliar explains in a December 2015 text that there will be a deal between the Chinese and “one of the most prominent families from the U.S.” A month later he introduces Rob Walker, also “a partner of Biden.” In March 2016, Mr. Gilliar tells Mr. Bobulinski the Chinese entity is CEFC, which is shaping up to be “the Goldmans of China.” Mr. Gilliar promises that same month to “develop” the terms of a deal “with hunter.” Note that in 2015-16, Joe Biden was still vice president.
As the deal takes shape in 2017, Mr. Bobulinski begins to question what Hunter will contribute besides his name, and worries that he was “kicked out of US Navy for cocaine use.” Mr. Gilliar acknowledges “skill sets [sic] missing” and observes that Hunter “has a few demons.” He explains that “in brand [Hunter is] imperative but right know [sic] he’s not essential for adding input.” Mr. Bobulinski writes that he appreciates “the name/leverage being used” but thinks the economic “upside” should go to the team doing the actual work. Mr. Gilliar reminds him that those on the Chinese side “are intelligence so they understand the value added.”
This dispute almost derails the deal. Hunter is hardly visible through most of the work, until final contract negotiations ramp up in mid-May. He brings in his uncle Jim Biden for a stake. (Mr. Gilliar in a text message soothes Mr. Bobulinski with a promise that Jim’s addition “strengthens our USP”—unique selling proposition—“to the Chinese as it looks like a truly family business.”) Hunter in texts and emails wants offices in three U.S. cities, “significant” travel budgets, a stipend for Jim Biden, a job for an assistant, and more-frequent distributions of any gains. As for annual pay, he explains in an email that he expects “a hell of a lot more than 850” thousand dollars a year (the amount Mr. Bobulinski, the CEO, is getting), since his ex-wife will take nearly all of it.
Mr. Bobulinksi pushes back, warning Mr. Gilliar in a text that they need to “manage” Hunter because “he thinks things are going to be his personal piggybank.” The duo worry about his “mental state,” substance abuse, and his ability to make meetings.
Hunter, in his own angry texts, makes clear that his contribution is his name...
RTWT.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories
Evelyn Taft's Thursday Forecast
It's been cool, overcast. Its' a nice break from the heat.
Here's the fabulous Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Hunter Biden's Laptop Allegedly Features Photos of 'Underage Girls'
At Big League Politics. "SHOCK CLAIM: Rudy Giuliani Says Hunter Biden Laptop Had Pictures of “Underage Girls,” Bizarre Texts."
RELATED: This is gold, Scaachi Koul, at BuzzFeed, via Memeorandum, "Jeffrey Toobin Can't Be The Only Person Masturbating On Work Zoom Calls."
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Everything is 'White Supremacist'
Big eyerolls here, but it's absolutely true.
And it's the most stupid thing. I feel bad for white people, especially meekly progressive whites who are too afraid of being labeled "racist" (and having their lives destroyed) to stand up to the bullying.
At NYT, "'White Supremacy' Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More":
"As July 4 and its barbecues arrived this year, the activist and former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick declared, “We reject your celebration of white supremacy.”THIS—>”’White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More.” The New York Times https://t.co/jhgUkDPq3H
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) October 17, 2020
The director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of New York City’s most prestigious museums, acknowledged this summer that his institution was grounded in white supremacy, while four blocks uptown, the curatorial staff of the Guggenheim decried a work culture suffused in it.
The Los Angeles Times editorial board issued an apology two weeks ago describing itself as “deeply rooted in white supremacy” for at least its first 80 years. In England, the British National Library’s Decolonising Working Group cautioned employees that a belief in “color blindness” or the view that “mankind is one human family” are examples of “covert white supremacy.”
In a time of plague and protest, two words — “white supremacy” — have poured into the rhetorical bloodstream with force and power. With President Trump’s overt use of racist rhetoric, a spate of police killings of Black people, and the rise of far-right extremist groups, many see the phrase as a more accurate way to describe today’s racial realities, with older descriptions like “bigotry” or “prejudice” considered too tame for such a raw moment.
News aggregators show a vast increase in the use of the term “white supremacy” (or “white supremacist”) compared with 10 years ago. The New York Times itself used the term fewer than 75 times in 2010, but nearly 700 times since the first of this year alone. Type the term into Twitter’s search engine and it pops up six, eight or 10 times each minute.
The meaning of the words has expanded, too. Ten years ago, white supremacy frequently described the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, the neo-Nazi politician from Louisiana. Now it cuts a swath through the culture, describing an array of subjects: the mortgage lending policies of banks; a university’s reliance on SAT scores as a factor for admissions decisions; programs that teach poor people better nutrition; and a police department’s enforcement policies.
Yet the phrase is deeply contentious. Influential writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, a Boston University professor, have embraced it, seeing in white supremacy an explanatory power that cuts through layers of euphemism to the core of American history and culture. It speaks to the reality, they say, of a nation built on slavery. To examine many aspects of American life once broadly seen as race neutral — such as mortgage lending or college faculty hiring — is to find a bedrock of white supremacy.
“It is not hyperbole to say that white supremacy is resting at the heart of American politics,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor of Princeton, a socialist activist and professor of African-American studies, said in a speech in 2017.
But some Black scholars, businessmen and activists — on the right and the left — balk at the phrase. They hear in those words a sledgehammer that shocks and accuses, rather than explains. When so much is described as white supremacy, when the Ku Klux Klan and a museum art collection take the same descriptor, they say, the power of the phrase is lost.
Prof. Orlando Patterson, a sociologist at Harvard University who has written magisterial works on the nature of slavery and freedom, including about his native Jamaica, said it was too reminiscent of the phrases used to describe apartheid and Nazi Germany.
“It comes from anger and hopelessness and alienates rather than converts,” he said.
The label also discourages white and Black people from finding commonalities of experience that could move society forward,
Professor Patterson and others said. “It racializes a lot of problems that a lot of people face, even when race is not the answer,” Professor Patterson said.
Glenn C. Loury, a conservative-leaning economics professor at Brown University, hears in the term an attempt to spin a mythic narrative about a fallen America.
“So we declare structures of our country are implacably racist,” Professor Loury said. “On the other hand, we make appeals to have a conversation with that country which is mired in white supremacy? The logic escapes me.”
Then there are those whose cultural signposts are found outside the Black-white divide. The essayist Wesley Yang, the son of Korean immigrants and the author of “The Souls of Yellow Folk,” often examines racial identity and has found himself watching the debate over these words as if through a side window. Did this thing called white supremacy really so neatly define the lives of Black people and Latinos and Asians?
“The phrase is destructive of discourse,” he said. “Once you define it as something that has a ghostly essence, it’s nowhere and everywhere”..."
Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party Wins Landslide Election
This is not good.
Have you paid attention to this woman? She's a budding leftist totalitarian, and New Zealand voters handed her at least three more years of power. Remember, she forced a major gun confiscation program following the Christchurch massacre in 2019, and New Zealand's coronavirus crackdown this year is perhaps the most draconian of any democracy on earth.
And she's a creepy "Karen" type of woman who assumes she knows what's best for you. "Cringe" is only putting it mildly.
At the New Zealand Herald, "Election results 2020: Labour's Jacinda Ardern wins second term, crushes National's Judith Collins; Winston Peters and NZ First out; Act's David Seymour and Greens' James Shaw and Marama Davidson get 10 MPs each."
The Sydney Morning Herald, "Victory an endorsement for Jacinda's steady hand in unsteady times."
And the Guardian U.K., "New Zealand election 2020: Jacinda Ardern to govern New Zealand for second term after historic victory -- New Zealanders give Labour more votes than at any other election in past five decades."
Friday, October 16, 2020
Peter Schweizer, Profiles in Corruption
Due out January 21, 2021, at Amazon, Peter Schweizer, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Big Tech Censors Blockbuster Hunter Biden Exposé
Definitely got the Streisand Effect going on here.
Twitter made this an even bigger story by trying to block readers from sharing it.
At WSJ, via Memeorandum, "Facebook, Twitter Limit Sharing of New York Post Articles That Biden Disputes."
And at today's New York Post, via Memeorandum, "Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm."
This is big. We'll see how things play out.
Also, at Instapundit, "AS THEY SHOULD: Twitter, Facebook face blowback after stopping circulation of NY Post story."
And Hot Air, "Biden Campaign Lashes Out at New York Post."
Washing Up
Well, Twitter does have its uses.
#RT if you like her big boobs! @BbtElle #tits #boobs pic.twitter.com/jGhoZ5o5te
— Big Breast Pics (@BigBreastPics) October 14, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Viral Ocean Spray 'Dreams' Star Nathan Apodaca
Jennifer Delacruz's Thursday Forecast
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Celebrities Strip Down for Voter Registration Campaign
this seems exceedingly desperate. https://t.co/BaIEX7aR8b
— Apollycalypse (@PollySpin) October 7, 2020
Monday, October 5, 2020
Jumbo's Clown Room
At LAT, "How out-of-work strippers made their show virtual and are ‘taking the power back’."
When the pandemic hit, a group of dancers from the East Hollywood strip club Jumbo’s Clown Room realized no one was coming to save them.
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) October 5, 2020
So, they got creative💃💃💃: https://t.co/6wur5v85oW
Friday, October 2, 2020
Trump Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Say a prayer for the president and his wife. Hope Hicks too.
It's been nonstop bombshell news for days now, some of it genuine news (and most of it propaganda from the leftist media complex --- here's looking at you New York Times).
Check Memeorandum for all the headlines.
And at LAT, "President Trump and first lady test positive for the coronavirus."
The media's descended into hysteria. On CNN a little while ago, Dana Bash, Kaitlan Collins, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta all looked like they'd just woken up or hadn't been to sleep. Brian Stelter declared an international emergency. Oh brother. It's four in the morning back east. What a nightmare. And to think, I watched baseball all day yesterday, then streamed "Big Brother" with my wife, and then the news hit. Unfortunately, there's just one MLB playoff game until Monday. The Cubs and Marlins are making up a rained out game later today, and after that I'll just stream some shows I guess.
This election's killing me lol.
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