Sunday, August 7, 2016

Donald Trump Campaign Reboot

He just needs to be disciplined, although not too much so, or he'll lose his signature appeal.

Mostly, though, he needs to stay focused on the key issues, hammering on the economy and Hillary Clinton-Democrat Party corruption.

But see the Wall Street Journal, "Donald Trump Tries a Campaign Reboot":
Donald Trump is trying to quickly reset his presidential campaign to address worsening poll numbers and growing isolation from influential members of the Republican Party.

At weekend rallies, the GOP nominee read from a hand-held script and offered endorsements for the re-elections of a trio of Capitol Hill Republicans whom he had toyed with rebuffing. On Monday, he will head to Detroit to deliver an economic policy address that is expected to draw contrasts with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Many in Mr. Trump’s party have been clamoring for weeks to see these kinds of adjustments. If he is to persuade Republican skeptics to buy back into his campaign, just weeks before the crucial post-Labor Day stage, the unorthodox, first-time candidate now must show he can make the changes stick.

Part of the issue for the New York businessman is that he has run his campaign much like his family business, with his grown children as his top counselors and surrogates. That has meant he hasn’t developed a strong connective tissue to party stalwarts and activists that can sustain a candidate through difficult times.

Reports of Republicans leaving the party, lining up behind Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson or even backing Mrs. Clinton gained momentum last week, after the nominee’ criticized the parents of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.

“The friendly fire within the Republican Party over the last week has been extremely counterproductive,” said veteran GOP strategist Dave Carney, who isn’t involved in the Trump campaign but says he will vote for him. “In modern presidential politics, this election is an outlier in terms of deterioration of support.”


Mr. Trump hopes for a reboot with his Detroit speech, which will talk about “the tepid economy under Obama and Clinton, versus the kind of growth economy that Mr. Trump wants to build,” Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Sunday on Fox News.

“We’re comfortable we’ll get the agenda and the narrative of the campaign back on where it belongs,” Mr. Manafort added.

Mr. Trump in his speech is expected to give broad strokes about his economic plan, particularly to underscore his support for tax cuts. He is also likely to reiterate his plan to create a single top business tax rate that would apply to corporations and to businesses that pay taxes through their owners’ individual returns.

The candidate isn’t likely to offer a detailed revision of his previously announced plan for big tax cuts. Advisers have been working on an overhaul of that plan to address criticism it would rapidly expand the federal deficit, but that revision isn’t yet ready, advisers said.

Mr. Trump has shown an ability to survive rough patches, and he and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, have stressed party unity in recent days. At a rally in New Hampshire Saturday night, Mr. Trump largely stuck to lines of attack against Mrs. Clinton that bind most Republicans together.

Still, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, both of whom are facing election challenges, didn’t appear on stage with their party’s nominee during weekend rallies in their respective states...
More.

Concessions at the Coliseum for Los Angeles Rams

Via Lindsay Thiry:


Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Cartoons."

Branco Cartoons photo Iran-Cash-600-CI_zpsmtxuoicr.jpg

And at Theo Spark's, "Cartoon Roundup..."

Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "Iranian Stimulus Package."

Studs Terkel, Hard Times

I picked up an old copy of this yesterday.

It turns out it's still in print.

A great read.

At Amazon, Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.

Dutch Cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten in Intensive Care After Monster Crash in Women's Road Race at Rio 2016 (VIDEO)

Watch, at NBC Sports, "Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten suffers a horrific crash while in the lead and nearing the end of the road race on Sunday."

And at the Mirror U.K., "Annemiek van Vleuten in intensive care with three spinal fractures after horror crash."

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And, Mary Katharine Ham, End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun).

Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South.

Still more, from Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.

Clint Romesha, Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor.

And John Nagl, Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice.

BONUS: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War.



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Saturday, August 6, 2016

WATCH: New Donald Trump Video Mocks Hillary Clinton as Malfunctioning Robot

It's good.

At Instapundit, "HEH: Trump video mocks Clinton as short-circuiting robot."

Tim Lincecum Designated for Assignment

Heh.

I called it last night, "Was That Tim Lincecum's Last Game?"

And indeed it was.

Jeff Fletcher reports, at the O.C. Register, "End of the line? Angels cut Tim Lincecum, ask him to go to minors":

SEATTLE – Tim Lincecum’s comeback attempt with the Angels -- one phase of it anyway -- is over.

The Angels designated Lincecum for assignment on Saturday, a day after his ninth start ballooned his ERA to 9.16.

“He hasn’t progressed from his first couple starts,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “He’s regressed a little bit. It’s a matter of understanding his mechanics, getting his release point more consistent. That’s really impossible to work out at the major league level.”

Presumably Lincecum will clear waivers and then he will have the option of accepting the Angels assignment to Triple-A or becoming a free agent.

“We hope he’ll go to Triple-A and work on it and see how it progresses,” Scioscia said.

Lincecum left the ballpark Saturday before reporters had the chance to talk to him, but Scioscia said that he handled the news well.

“It’s hard news to take, but Tim understands it,” Scioscia said. “He’s pragmatic. He understands the work he needs to do. Hopefully he’ll accept this challenge and use the opportunity to become a better pitcher.”

Lincecum, 32, has spent much of the past five years trying to revive his career. A two-time Cy Young winner, Lincecum has struggled since 2012, with much of his trouble because of a hip injury that altered his delivery and led to surgery last year.

The Angels signed Lincecum in May – after watching him pitch in a showcase event in Arizona – and gave him a few weeks to get ready in the minors.

His June 18 debut in an Angels uniform was encouraging. He gave up one run in six innings in a victory over the Oakland A’s.

Since then, though, he has failed to finish six innings in any of his last eight starts. He has allowed at least three runs in each start...
I haven't blogged Angels baseball as much this summer as I did last year (the Angels were heavily in the hunt then). But if you're following me on Twitter you'd have seen my comments on Lincecum. I was really pleased with his initial comeback outing in Oakland. Of course, everyone had high hopes. But good things never materialized and last night it all fell apart. I bet Scioscia was getting a lot of heat about it, and he finally made the call to cut the dude loose. It's gotta be humiliating for a former Cy Young winner, but what are you going to do? I agree with Scioscia: He needs to go back down to Triple A and grind it out for a while. Maybe he'll get another chance to play in the majors. He's only 32-years-old.

But keep reading.


#ThirdWorldGames — Hope Solo FTW!

Well, I don't follow women's soccer that much, and I thought Hope Solo was a prima donna.

But this is a riot.

At LAT, "Solo quiets the crowd and France in record-setting 1-0 win":

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil -- Hope Solo is arguably the best goalkeeper in women’s soccer history. But she’s clearly not the most popular.

For the second time is as many games at the Rio Olympics, Solo was booed mercilessly every time she touched the ball Saturday. And for the second time Solo answered the taunts with a shutout in a 1-0 victory over France on a goal from Carli Lloyd in the 63rd minute.

With the victory the U.S., the three-time defending Olympic champion, moved a big step closer to winning its group and earning a quarterfinal date in Brasilia against a third-place team. France, on the other hand, needs at least a tie to finish second in the group and win a quarterfinal trip to Sao Paulo, where it would play the winner of Group F, likely Germany or Canada.

Both teams have one game left in group play Tuesday, the top-ranked U.S. against Colombia on the edge of the Amazon jungle in steamy Manaus and No. 3 France against New Zealand in the colonial port city of Salvador.

That picture would be far more jumbled if not for Solo, who was making the 200th appearance of her international career, the most by any goalkeeper, male or female, in history.

The Brazilian crowd was in no mood to help her celebrate the milestone. Each time she touched the ball the crowd booed loudly – or as loudly as a crowd of about 10,000 people can boo – then chanted “Zika!” each time she took a goal kick.

Last month Solo, who said she had considered skipping the Olympics because of the Zika virus, posted photos of herself on Twitter wearing an anti-mosquito mask and holding a bottle of insect repellent, angering many Brazilians.

Solo later apologized but the apology wasn’t accepted by everyone...
She apologized?

Okay, but the tweet's still up, heh. No wonder they hate her.


I'm not planning on watching that much of these games, but I'll watch kick-ass women's soccer. These women are rad!

Donald Trump's Watching the Olympics to 'See How High the Mexican Pole Vaulters Go...'

Quips the so-called "libertarian" presidential candidate Gary Johnson.

That's pretty funny, I gotta admit.

At the Hill, "Gary Johnson: Trump watching Olympics to see how high Mexican pole vaulters go."

Johnson's really a leftist who likes to smoke weed, heh. Or at least, that's what John Hawkins has been saying, but it sound about right.

And see this interview with Johnson at Reason TV, "Gary Johnson on Trump, the Presidential Election, and Life as a Pot Company CEO":
Johson recently found his "dream job" as CEO of Cannabis Sativa, a publicly traded company that markets weed products. "We want to be the Dom Perignon [of marijuana]," he explains. Johnson is also the chairman of the nonprofit Our America Initiative, which advocates for balanced budgets, defense cuts, drug policy reform, and improved ballot and debate access for third-party candidates.
And, of course, once he became the "libertarian" nominee, he had to issue the obligatory repudiations of the wacky weed. See, "Libertarian Johnson would not use marijuana as president," and "Gary Johnson: 'I've stopped using marijuana' during White House bid."

Hmm, I don't believe it, lol.

John Lott, The War on Guns [BUMPED]

From John Lott, just out this week, at Amazon, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies.

Gisele Bündchen's Legs Do the Walking at #Rio2016 Opening Ceremony (VIDEO)

I know. I blogged the boring Olympics last night.

I didn't even watch, and I'm glad.

But the world went crazy over Gisele Bündchen, it turns out. So here's a little roundup of reactions, heh.

First, watch, at NBC Sports, "Gisele Bündchen kicks off the Opening Ceremony with the final catwalk of her modeling career."

And see the hilarious reaction at BuzzFeed, "This Is Just an Appreciation Post for This Marvelous Woman Called GISELE BÜNDCHEN":
Hi guys, let’s talk about the most important part of the opening ceremony.
Also, at London's Daily Mail, "Gisele uses her final catwalk to honor Brazil at #Olympics #OpeningCeremony. Woah."

And, "Tom Brady reveals why he missed Gisele's starring role at #Rio2016 #OpeningCeremony." Well, he's married to the woman, heh.

At CBS News Boston, "Tom Brady Praises Wife Gisele’s Role In ‘Incredible’ Olympic Opening Ceremony #Rio2016."

And here's a review, at NYT, "Even on NBC, Rio's Colors Can't Be Airbrushed Out."

Sarah Palin Doubles Down on Paul Ryan Snub (VIDEO)

Heh.

Ryan's "kinda screwed his chances for the 2020 GOP bid..."

Click through to watch:


British Toddler with 'Worst Case of Chickenpox Ever Seen' Turned Away from Doctors; Mum Told Not to Worry (VIDEO)

The scariest case of chicken pox I've ever seen.

And the doctor's office told the mum, "every mother thinks their child has bad chickenpox," so stop freaking out already.

At Pajamas, "Toddler With 'Worst Case of Chickenpox EVER Seen' Turned Away from Doctors."

I had to check around to make sure the kid was okay.

Thankfully, yes.

At the Mirror U.K., "Tot with worst case of chicken pox ever entertains This Morning hosts with his bored antics."

Here's the video, "Severe Chickenpox Put My Child In Hospital - This Morning."

I had chicken pox. The itching just about kills you, but you'll survive.

But both of my sons were vaccinated, so thank goodness they didn't have to go through it.

Lucca Poni and Her Child in South Sudan

At the Los Angeles Times, letters to the editor, "The price of being a girl in South Sudan":

To the editor: On the front page of The Times this week was one of the simplest, yet most spectacular photos that I, a designer, have seen. (“What daughters are worth,” August 1)

The portrait of Lucca Poni and her child in South Sudan accompanied a fine article by Robyn Dixon on young girls’ plight in that part of the world.

I had to look twice to be sure it was not a painting.

Photographer Sara Hylton’s attention to subject matter illustrating the article, composition, light and color are worthy of Pulitzer consideration to my mind.

Marty Huyette, Dana Point
That's very nice.

The status of women in South Sudan? Not so much.

Special Rule 5 for Woodsterman!

I forgot to add Woodsterman to my morning babe blogging, now cross-posted Astute Bloggers, "GUARANTEED NOT HALAL: RULE 5 SATURDAY."

Here's Odie's entry, at Woodsterman's, "For Edutcher ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."

Theo's Hotties photo BTD2B9.jpg

WikiLeaks Trying to Hack Donald Trump's Tax Returns (VIDEO)

Julian Assange confirms he's trying to hack Donald Trump's tax returns, on Bill Maher's show.

Watch, at CNN, "Wikileaks: We are working on hacking Trump's taxes: Julian Assange told Bill Maher in an interview that Wikileaks is working on hacking into Donald Trump's tax returns. The Republican nominee has refused to release the returns, despite multiple requests from reporters."

At the clip, Scottie Nell Hughes notes that they wouldn't be hacking into Trump's files, they'd be hacking into the IRS.

Assange is wanted in Sweden anyway, and would likely be extradited here. I think a lot of folks think WikiLeaks just broke onto the scene the last couple years. But Assange and his cyber-terrorists tried to demonize and discredit the U.S. back in 2010.

These are bad people. Don't kid yourself about them. They're genuinely evil.

Shame on Bill Maher for giving him a platform.

Leftist MSM Smear Campaign Won't Stop Donald Trump (VIDEO)

Heh, at the D.C. Whispers blog, "ALERT: Democrat & Republican Leaders to Declare Donald Trump “Mentally Incompetent” (UPDATES)."

Lolz.

Declare Trump "incompetent"; say he's about to "drop out"; and allege that the entire GOP establishment has abandoned him, and you can create an almost impenetrable Orwellian bubble of lies.

That's what the left does. It's all lies.

I will concede the polls are not going Trump's way, although I'm still leery of the sampling.

We'll see, of course.

In any case, you gotta love the Alex Jones folks for keeping the faith:



Democrat Party Registration Numbers Surge Behind the Orange Curtain

The O.C.'s a polarized county.

If you get up into North Orange County, it's almost like Los Angeles and Long Beach. Totally diverse --- and leftist.

But in South Orange County --- Mission Viejo, Laguna Hills, Aliso Viejo, and Dana Point, for example --- I'm sure there's still large Republican majorities. But even there it's changing.

At the O.C. Register, "Democratic surge shrinks GOP lead":
A surge in Democratic voter registration has cut Republicans’ advantage in Orange County to less than 6 percentage points and has doubled the number of Democratic cities over the past year.

The Republican margin has been shrinking since 1990, when the GOP edge was 22 points. But in the past six months, the pace of change has been four times as fast as the 26-year average – due in part to the GOP’s controversial presidential nominee. That could hurt the local Republicans in November’s down-ticket races.

“Donald Trump has become our best marketing tool,” said Henry Vandermeir, chairman of the Democratic Party of Orange County. “He’s insulted pretty much every constituency in this county, which has helped drive Democratic registration and turnout to new highs.”

Vandermeir’s registration efforts have gotten a boost from other quarters. In addition to the county Democratic Party, at least four left-leaning groups – including MoveOn.org – have been registering voters in Orange County. County GOP Chairman Fred Whitaker said his party has gotten virtually no outside help.

Additionally, Sen. Bernie Sanders attracted young adults who might have otherwise not participated. And the competitive Democratic presidential primary in June boosted turnout, while the Republican contest was already decided....

Orange County was long touted as the nation’s most Republican county. The modern-era high point was 1990, when the GOP’s 56 percent share of the electorate translated to a 22-point advantage over Democrats. (In 1928, Republicans were at 73 percent.)

That edge has slowly dropped, to 17 percentage points in 2000 and to 11 points in 2010.

Republicans are now 39.7 percent of county voters, an all-time low. Democrats are at 34 percent, their highest since 1992. Voters with no party preference account for 22.6 percent, down from the all-time high of 23.6 percent last year.

That means Republicans’ 8-percentage point edge in February has shrunk to 5.7 points...
I grew up in Orange County. Shoot, I walked to school through the orange groves behind my postwar track housing neighborhood. It was great!

But keep reading (via Memeorandum).

If you click though, little noticed there is the surge in "no party preference" voters, at almost 23 percent (up from 10 percent in 1992). A lot of independents are extremely angry and frustrated and may well vote for Trump as the anti-establishment outsider. I think idiot Democrats ought not be counting their presidential chickens before they hatch.

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And, Mary Katharine Ham, End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun).

Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South.

Still more, from Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.

Clint Romesha, Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor.

And John Nagl, Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice.

BONUS: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War.

Kendall Jenner Steps Out in Tight Dress in Woodland Hills

At the Mirror U.K., "Kendall Jenner flashes nipples AGAIN as she steps out in tight see-through dress."

And at London's Daily Mail, "Bra-less Kendall Jenner wears VERY flimsy dress as she arrives late to family lunch and meets with survivors of gun violence."

Saturday Rule 5

I haven't done a roundup in a while, as always, because they take too dang long.

But here's a few celebrity shots and blog links, what the hell?

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First Street Journal, "Rule 5 Blogging: Totally Hot Twitter Edition."

At 90 Miles From Tyranny, "Morning Mistress."

And London's Daily Mail, "Meet Sahara Ray, the topless Australian model linked to Justin Bieber." And at Drunken Stepfather, "CENSORED SAHARA RAY TITS YOU’VE SEEN WITH CENSORED JUSTIN BIEBER YOU’VE SEEN OF THE DAY."

Still more, at the Mirror U.K., "Competing with Orlando Bloom? Justin Bieber and his girlfriend strip off during Hawaii getaway."

At YOLO Selfie, "Nude Selfie Breastroom."

More, at DListed, "Open Post: Britney Spears' New Video for “Make Me”."

The Hostages, "Big Boob Friday, "BBF – National Underwear Day Edition."

And Proof Positive, "Friday Night Babe: Chase Kennedy!"

Theo Spark, "Victoria’s Secret – Easy Collection Commercial Featuring Lily Aldridge (VIDEO)."

From Izismile, "Every Girl with Cute Tushie Should Wear Such Jeans (8 Pics)," and "Hot Women from '70s Sure Had Some Style (24 Pics)."

Bob Belvedere Flashback, "Rule 5 News: 08 June 2013 A.D. - Featuring Famke Janssen."

Check Pirate's Cove, "If All You See……is a terrible waste of water for fun when climate change will destroy all water, you might just be a Warmist."

Ms. EBL, "White Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter...Rule 5."

At Wirecutter's, "Your Good Morning Girl."

BONUS: At the Rule 5 blogfather's blog, the Other McCain, "Rule 5 Sunday: I Never Would Have Guessed."

Drop me a link in the comments to be added. I don't do these that much anymore, so I'm out of shape, heh.

Machete Suspect Screams 'Allahu Akbar' in Latest Belgian Jihad Attack (VIDEO)

The daily jihad attacks are back.

Watch, at Euronews, "Two policewomen wounded in machete attack in Belgium."

And at the Telegraph U.K., "Belgian police officers injured in machete attack."

BONUS: Flashback, "Postcard from a Failed State? Attacks Cast Light on Belgium's State Crisis."

'Reparations' Website Exploits Guilt-Ridden White to Provide 'Free' Services to Black Americans

Blazing Cat Fur has the story, "Website Invites the Liberal-Guilted to Give Free Stuff In Exchange for 'White Privilege Offsets'."

I think it's despicable.

I saw this at the Los Angeles Times yesterday, "Artist launches Reparations website and 'social experiment' on white privilege":
As an interior designer relatively new to the business, Christy Lynn Abram lacked the connections that could make her start-up a success. Then a friend recommended Reparations, a new Internet site that allows ethnic minorities to request help or services from a white person who would fulfill them free of charge.

"I was kind of drawn to it," said Abram, who is black. "My thought wasn't that someone owed me anything. It was more about opening myself up to having someone help me."

Launched as a modest project on Facebook in mid-July but soon expanded to a standalone website, Reparations is starting to draw international attention for its brazen approach to race relations. It is provoking strong reaction, including condemnation from those who see it as a racially divisive tool that exploits white liberal guilt.

But Seattle-based conceptual artist Natasha Marin, who created the project, defended her site as a social experiment intended to explore "white privilege."

"There are people across the political spectrum who don't understand that they have privilege,” she said. “So in many ways the site lets you cash in your whiteness to help other people."

The site has drawn more than 1,000 visitors per day since launching, estimated Marin, who said that her site analytics shut down because traffic exceeded capacity. She said the project has received more than 1,000 requests and offerings.

In a modern news era when social media reaction can amplify a relatively small number of voices into a national or even global conversation, Reparations has spurred coverage by outlets including the Washington Post and the Guardian, as well as several conservative sites such as the Daily Caller and Breitbart, which have taken a more critical approach to the project.

As word of the site has spread, offers and requests have come in from all over the U.S. as well as countries including Britain, New Zealand and Zambia — including one offer of a night’s shelter and a meal to a person of color traveling near Paparoa, New Zealand.

Marin, 37, is black and hails from Trinidad. She said that she has received a barrage of negative online feedback, including death threats, racial slurs and messages calling her a "whore."

She said she was surprised by some of the vitriol.

"You can tell the whole world that I was that naive," she said. "I don't feel like I deserve the hatred I've been getting out of this."

The artist said that requests are moderated and that she tries to facilitate exchanges.

Abram, the interior designer, said she received several responses that were helpful, including one from a man in Montreal who gave her career advice via Skype. But she also received "nasty” messages, including one that said white people didn't owe her anything and another that called her a "bloodsucker."

The concept of reparations has been controversial, especially when referring to the notion that black individuals in the U.S. should be compensated for the legacy of slavery.

On Monday leaders affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement published a political platform calling for slavery reparations.

"The government, responsible corporations and other institutions that have profited off of the harm they have inflicted on black people — from colonialism to slavery through food and housing redlining, mass incarceration, and surveillance — must repair the harm done," said the Movement for Black Lives, an umbrella group that includes Black Lives Matter...
Black leftists have created a recipe for mutual hatred and recrimination. No wonder race relations are worse today than they've been in decades.

Keep reading.

Gold Star Mom Karen Vaughn Goes 'On the Record' (VIDEO)

Following-up from yesterday, "Gold Star Mom Karen Vaughn Says Obama Used Son's Casket as 'Photo Op' (VIDEO)."

She's a good lady.

From Greta's show yesterday afternoon:



Russia and America: Destined for Conflict?

From Dimitri K. Simes, at the National Interest:
THE NEXT American president will face the most serious challenge from Russia since the end of the Cold War or, for that matter, since the early 1980s, when the United States and Yuri Andropov’s Soviet Union actively confronted one another around the globe. Russia today is increasingly an angry, nationalist, elective monarchy, and while it is still open for business with America and its allies, its leaders often assume the worst about Western intentions and view the United States as the “main enemy”—indeed, a new poll finds that 72 percent of Russians consider the United States the country most hostile to Russia. Worse, Moscow has been prepared to put its money where its mouth is in proceeding with a massive military modernization. The Russian government is simultaneously tightening domestic political and police controls and seeking new alliances to balance pressures from the United States and its allies and partners.

It is important not to oversimplify this situation. It is not a reenactment of the Cold War; history rarely repeats itself so precisely. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is not a superpower and its top officials are realistic about their country’s military, geopolitical and economic limitations. Russia does not have a universal ideology predicated on the West as an enemy. In fact, Putin and his associates regularly profess interest in resuming cooperation with the United States and its allies—on terms acceptable to the Kremlin. The Russian government is eager to obtain foreign investment and access to Western technology, which requires normalcy in relations with the West.

We cannot be sure how Putin and his associates would respond if the United States and its allies were prepared to reshape their policy towards Russia by defining their interests more narrowly, being less categorical about Russian domestic practices, putting a premium on avoiding confrontation and, when possible, even engaging in cooperation with Russia. All that can be said at this point is that Russia’s trajectory is alarming, but probably not yet irreversible...
Keep reading.

Trump's Movement Could Destroy America

Following-up, "Here's That Sarah Kendzior Piece Mentioned the Other Day."

I think Sarah Kenzior's amping on methamphetamine.

At Quartz, "Donald Trump and his followers could destroy America even if he loses":

Donald Trump’s erratic behavior over the past week has led to speculation that he is purposefully trying to sabotage his own campaign.

Since Aug. 2, Trump has feuded with a baby, repeatedly insulted the Muslim parents of a deceased veteran, claimed he “always wanted a Purple Heart,” insisted the election will be “rigged,” reignited past campaign controversies like his mockery of a disabled reporter and his comments over Megan Kelly’s menstrual cycle, falsely claimed he was given state secrets about Iran and then announced those “secrets” to the public, and inspired several Republicans to endorse Hillary Clinton.

This is clearly not a winning strategy. But there is no reason to believe Trump is purposefully trying to lose. In January, Trump boasted that he “could stand in the middle of [New York City’s] 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

What he is doing now is merely the rhetorical equivalent. Trump’s current behavior should concern Americans–not simply because of the hatred and intolerance his campaign has normalized, but because the leaders who might inherit Trump’s voter base could be even worse.

From its infancy, Trump’s campaign has been about testing the limits of his fans’ loyalty and public tolerance for bigotry, threats, and lies. The Republican Party and the media have repeatedly failed this test. GOP leaders have criticized him but most refuse to retract their endorsements. Some journalists have apologized for their role in promoting Trump during the primaries, and many now critique him harshly, but you can still find his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski spouting racist birther theories as a paid commentator on CNN. And despite a phenomenal meltdown, Trump still maintains his fan base as well as institutional support.

That said, it is looking more likely that Trump will lose. Though polls are not a reliable predictor of what will happen in November, several recent surveys indicate an unprecedented drop in his approval ratings. According to Gallup, Trump is the first candidate in US history to lose support after his party’s convention.

Although victory is still possible—in this election, anything is possible—it is prudent to examine what will happen should Hillary Clinton win. Over the past year, Trump has built an impressive cult of personality. What happens to the cult if the personality is defeated?

To answer this question, we need to evaluate Trump’s version of patriotism. Trump has promoted himself as the “real” American candidate, the one who will put “America first” (as the old fascist slogan goes) and who cares about the “forgotten Americans.” He has made it clear that he does not care very much about the welfare of Muslims, Mexicans, or other Americans who are not part of his white Christian base. But it is not clear that Trump cares about his white Christian base either, or about the stability and prosperity of America as a whole. Consider this excerpt from an explosive February 2014 interview on Fox News:
“You know what solves it?” he said of America’s sorry state. “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you’ll have a [chuckles], you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.”

Trump does not want to make America great again. He wants to destroy America so that he, alone, can rebuild it.

He wants to destroy America so that he, alone, can rebuild it and subsume it under his control. As he said in his GOP convention speech, “I alone can fix it.” Trump’s stance is not unique: Dictators throughout history have created chaos in order to justify the use of force. But Trump’s ability to carry out this plan relies on him getting elected. With that option off the table, what comes next?

Here are two possibilities. The first is that a charismatic successor will come along who will maintain Trump’s political positions but behave in a more emotionally controlled way. This successor would presumably run for office, as Trump did, but learn from Trump’s mistakes and gain a broader base of support. Given that part of Trump’s appeal rests on an “anti-establishment” persona, this individual will likely not come from within the GOP, but from the fringe movements that Trump has helped push closer to the mainstream. It could be Donald Trump Jr, who could ride the wave of the Trump brand. Or it could be a popular and polished white supremacist, someone like Matthew Heimbach, who has attracted a large following with more explicitly racist rhetoric than Trump’s. Whoever it is will likely be younger than Trump and will tap into the youthful and bigoted “alt-right,” which has supported Trump throughout his campaign.

The second possibility is that Trump’s base may shift its focus from entering the government to annihilating it. In this scenario, his supporters might join militias and white secessionist movements, the ranks and popularity of which have grown exponentially since Obama took office.

As the US becomes less white and the Democratic Party increasingly reflects this diversity, Trump’s base would battle their perceived enemies head on. Picture the Bundy family standoff on a national level, with assorted militias and hate groups united behind the Trump banner, avenging his loss. Trump’s campaign has redefined what counts as “extremism”: Militia and white supremacist groups are enjoying increasingly mainstream appeal, especially as white Americans in a worsening economy feel they have little to lose by joining them...
This reminds me of the piece I wrote shortly after Obama came to office, in February 2009, "Worst Case Scenario? Preparing for Anarchy in America."

It's prophetic.

But keep reading Kendzior, heh.

She's totally amped.

Friday, August 5, 2016

Angela Merkel's Popularity Plunges After Wave of Jihad Attacks in Germany — Unexpectedly!

Well, this is a total surprise.

At the Wall Street Journal, "Merkel’s Popularity Plunges After July Attacks":

BERLIN — Mounting concerns about terrorism, migration and relations with Turkey are eroding support among German voters for Europe’s long-dominant leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, as she decides whether to run for a fourth term.

A poll released late Thursday showed Ms. Merkel’s approval rating plummeting 12 points in the space of a month and confidence in her handling of refugee policy at a new low.

It was conducted Monday and Tuesday, following a wave of violence in southern Germany in late July that included two terrorist acts by migrants, allegedly linked to Islamic State, that injured 20 people.

“Of course we can do it. The country won’t collapse,” said Karl-Georg Wellmann, a lawmaker with Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democrats, referring to the chancellor’s slogan regarding the recent wave of around a million migrants.

“But people don’t want to hear this anymore,” he said. “They want to hear that we have things under control.”


The poll conducted by Infratest Dimap found Ms. Merkel’s approval rating at 47%, down from 59% a month before. Nearly two thirds said they disapproved of her refugee policy, the highest level since the pollster started asking the question last fall. The poll had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

In addition to terrorism fears, recent polls register deep discomfort with Ms. Merkel’s bid to keep working closely with Turkey to stem the tide of migrants and refugees trekking to Europe, especially in the wake of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown on domestic opponents after last month’s failed military coup.

Germans follow events in Turkey closely, in part because of worries that tensions there could spill over into Germany’s large Turkish community.

In the latest poll, 88% said the German government should be more assertive in confronting Turkey.

“The German people clearly believe that Germany should be tougher towards Mr. Erdogan,” said Oskar Niedermayer, professor of political science at Berlin’s Free University. “If Mr. Erdogan moves even more towards dictatorship than he is already doing,” and possibly calls the migration deal with the European Union into question, “this would of course be a very difficult situation for Ms. Merkel,” he said.

A top aide to Ms. Merkel said neither the attacks in Germany nor events in Turkey would affect the basics of the government’s migration policy...
I guess the German government's never heard of the first rule of holes.

More.

Boring Brazil Olympics — #ThirdWorldGames

Heh.

I didn't watch.

Gisele Bündchen's really cool, though.


And at People Magazine, "Gisele Bündchen Dances Like Everyone's Watching at Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony."

Phyllis Schlafly et al., The Conservative Case for Trump [BUMPED]

Out on September 6th.

At Amazon, Phyllis Schlafly et al., The Conservative Case for Trump.
From Phyllis Schlafly, the woman whose celebrated classic A Choice Not An Echo (over 3 million copies sold) upended the 1964 Republican Convention, comes a persuasive new argument for a surprising conservative choice: Donald Trump.

For the first time since 1980, a significant number of Republicans are considering abandoning their party’s nominee. This is a grave mistake, Schlafly says—because a Donald Trump “radical redirection” could actually set America back on the path of Reagan’s conservative revolution.


Was That Tim Lincecum's Last Game?

I don't think Mike Scioscia's got anyone else to fill in the rotation.

But Lincecum's gotta go.

At the O.C. Register, "Final: Tim Lincecum roughed up again in Angels' loss to the Mariners."


Deadly Tour Bus Crash on California's Highway 99 (VIDEO)

This wasn't too far north of Fresno.

At the Los Angeles Times, "'Catastrophic' charter bus crash leaves five dead, L.A. driver seriously injured":

At least five people were killed and numerous people seriously injured early Tuesday when a violent crash tore a charter bus down the middle on Highway 99 in Merced County, the California Highway Patrol said.

The northbound bus struck the support pole for a sign marking the Hammatt Avenue exit near the town of Livingston, CHP Officer Moises Onsurez told The Times. The crash occurred about 3:35 a.m., authorities said.

The pole split the white bus down the middle, tearing through it as it kept moving forward after impact, Onsurez said. Video images from the Merced Sun-Star showed firefighters climbing through windows in the early morning darkness, and a road lined with ambulances.

“This collision is a catastrophic event,” Onsurez said.

About 30 passengers were aboard the vehicle, and some suffered major injuries, Onsurez said. About five injured people were flown to hospitals, officials said. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Northbound Highway 99 was closed in the area throughout the day.

Authorities have identified the bus driver as 57-year-old Mario David Vasquez from Los Angeles, Onsurez said. Vasquez “sustained major injuries” and was hospitalized Tuesday morning, he said.

The bus originated in Mexico and had stopped in Los Angeles on Monday night, Onsurez said. It made a stop in Livingston and was headed to Pasco, Wash., Onsurez said...
Keep reading.

Two Muslim Women Booted Off American Airlines Flight in Miami; Flight Attendant Prevents Another Possible Terrorist Attack

Following-up, "Hero Delta Airlines Flight Attendant Prevents Possible Terrorist Attack by Getting Two Islamists Booted from Paris to Cincinnati Flight."

I guess this is getting to be a thing now.

Seen just now on Twitter:


Hard leftist Xena Jardin has a huge write-up, at Boing Boing, "2 Muslim women kicked off American Airlines flight in Miami."

One of the Muslims is Niala Mohammed Khalil. I'm surprised she's not wearing the hijab.


Update Not Watching the Olympics — #ThirdWorldGames

Following-up, "Not Watching the Olympics — #ThirdWorldGames."

Via Twitter:


Shop Trending Headphones

Heh.

At Amazon, MEE audio Sport-Fi M6 Noise Isolating In-Ear Headphones with Memory Wire (Orange).

Xenophobia and Islamophobia on the Rise in Great Britain

Actually, they're not. It's just that leftists have nothing left in the quiver to push back against righteous populist nationalism.

But see Zaheer Kazmi, at Foreign Affairs, FWIW, "Islamophobia and the New Britishness: How Brexit Revealed the Conservative Establishment's Intolerance."

Frankly, this guy Zaheer's recycling a lot of lies surrounding the Brexit debate, but this is what passes for "informed comment" on the left.

Pathetic.


Hillary Clinton, Queen of War

Very possibly our next president.


Not Watching the Olympics — #ThirdWorldGames

Oh, I'll tune in for gymnastics, swimming, and track and field, etc.

I'm just not watching the opening ceremonies. They're so politically correct it's like pulling teeth. And the show's not even live.

More, from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "NEWS YOU CAN ABUSE: An Incomplete List of Why Nobody Really Gives a Shit About the Olympics Anymore."

Donald Trump Endorses Paul Ryan in Wisconsin (VIDEO)

Trump goes back and forth: He gets in hot water with the press, establishment hacks come down on him hard, then he plays nice, doing something unconventional to get back in good graces.

Whatever.

Perhaps the idiot Khizr Khantroversy's blown over by now, and media hacks can momentarily train their fire on Hillary Clinton.

Or, I wish.

In any case, at Politico, "Donald Trump endorses Paul Ryan, John McCain."



Hero Delta Airlines Flight Attendant Prevents Possible Terrorist Attack by Getting Two Islamists Booted from Paris to Cincinnati Flight

Heh.

That should be the headline, but of course the two Muslims went straight to unindicted CAIR, who then turned it into a national civil rights crisis.

Rinse and repeat.

At USA Today, "Muslim couple removed from Delta flight: 'It was humiliating'."

Alessandra Ambrosio in Brazil

Well, she's Brazilian, so why not chill for the games?

(Actually, I'd rather chill in L.A., but what that heck. She's a local down there as well.)

At Egotastic!, "Alessandra Ambrosio Daisy Dukes In Brazil."

Also, "Alessandra Ambrosio Bikini Dip In Brazil."


London Attacker Zakaria Bulhan 'Recently Read the Koran...'

Jeez, we'll never find the motive.

Following-up from yesterday, "Zakaria Bulhan: London Somali Attack Suspect Identified as 19-Year-Old Who Was 'Bullied at School...'"

At Jihad Watch, "UK knifeman recently read Qur’an, life of Muhammad; cops search for motive."

ADDED: From Louise Mensch, at Heat Street, "EXCLUSIVE: CONFIRMED: ‘Mentally Ill’ Suspect Of Somali Descent In UK Attack Studied Jihad before Killing American."

Gold Star Mom Karen Vaughn Says Obama Used Son's Casket as 'Photo Op' (VIDEO)

She's a good lady.

From CNN this morning, "Gold Star Mom Says Obama Used Son's Casket as Photo Op When She Asked Him Not To."

If the Democrats didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all. *SMH*

Donald Trump Expected to Endorse Paul Ryan (VIDEO)

Trump's supposed to endorse Ryan tonight at a rally in Wisconsin.

CNN reports.

Also at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, "Trump plans to endorse Ryan, according to sources."

James Piereson, Shattered Consensus

This one's looking more relevant than ever.

At Amazon, James Piereson, Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order.

Here's Jackie Johnson's Forecast from Last Night

I've been slackin' on my Ms. Jackie blogging. She was on vacation for a while and they've had a platoon of meteorologists working the forecasts.

That's cool. But Ms. Jackie's my favorite.

At CBS 2 Los Angeles:



'Shocker: alumni donations drop when colleges reinvent themselves as Orwellian daycare centers...'

Lolz.

That's Iowahawk on Twitter, snarking about this piece:


It's good.

Bill Only Got a Blowjob ... I'm Gonna F*ck the Whole Country...

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Samantha Hoopes Summer of Swim Beach Body Workout (VIDEO)

She's a cool chick.

Watch, at Sports Illustrated, "SI Swimsuit bombshell Samantha Hoopes teaches us that it's never too late to get a rocking Summer of Swim beach body."

BONUS: At the Blemish, "Samantha Hoopes — Breasts So Big They Don’t Fit Into This Pic." And on Twitter, "Samantha Hoopes topless see through Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2016."

You Can Rip My Cargo Shorts Off My Cold Dead Booty!

I don't care about freakin' fashion trends. I've got about five pairs of cargo shorts and they're not going anywhere. My wife loves 'em. I've got a big black booty that doesn't look good in skinny-dude Bermuda shorts.

That's just not gonna fly.

And now here comes a "debate" on the fashion-ability of the genre? Get out of here!

From Nicole Hong, at WSJ, "What Happened After I Wrote That Cargo Shorts Story."

Here's the earlier piece that kicked off the debate, "Nice Cargo Shorts! You’re Sleeping on the Sofa."

More, at Galore, "WHAT TO DO IF YOUR BOYFRIEND STILL WEARS CARGO SHORTS."

Even PC political scientist Dan Drezner weighs in, "A Very Important Post about … cargo shorts."

Vote Trump: Finally a Candidate with Some Balls!

In case you missed it, vulgar t-shirts at the video from yesterday, "WATCH: New York Times 'Uncensored' Video of 'Voices' from Donald Trump's Rallies."

All of a sudden things got real and raw in American politics, and the leftist media's gone nuts.

I do like that slogan though, heh.


Cara Delevingne for Esquire

Kurt Loder slammed Cara Delevingne as "out of her depth" in "Suicide Squad," but the young lady is still fine as an icon of the fashion runways.

At Esquire, "CHANGELING: The chameleonic Cara Delevingne is more than just a series of pretty faces."

And at London's Daily Mail, "Cara Delevingne poses naked for stunning magazine shoot.

#ThirdWorldGames

Heh, I gotta get #ThirdWorldGames trending.


Great Piece from the Globe and Mail's Mark MacKinnon

Just click through and read it all at the link. It's quite perceptive, with a nice personal touch.


Here's That Sarah Kendzior Piece Mentioned the Other Day

Louise Mensch was riffing about how we need to stop the Trump movement once and for all (just like the Democrats), so I tweeted Sarah Kendzior's piece to her.


Kendzior is wrong about a couple of things --- Corey Lewandowski did not "assault" Michelle Fields, for one thing --- but it's otherwise an interesting essay.

'Why the fuck does ESPN think men are tuning in to hear their priests-with-no-gods sermonizing? ...'

Heh.

A great piece, from Ace at AoSHQ, "Hardcore Social Justice Warrior Advocacy Channel With Occasional Highlight Reels of Home Runs Hemmorhaging Subscribers, For Some Reason."

Also, at Instapundit, "ESPN BECAME AIR AMERICA GRADUALLY, BUT PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED: ESPN Loses 4 Million Subscribers In Past Year."

New York Yankees Throw in the Towel Mid-Season

That's fine with me. I hate the Yankees.

But see the Wall Street Journal, "A New Yankees Tradition: Being Totally OK With Losing":
Eric Morris picked up his allegiance to the New York Yankees in the 1990s when the team began throttling the rest of baseball, winning four World Series titles in five seasons. He remembers the roar of the crowd, the champagne showers, the ticker-tape parades.

This season, Mr. Morris says he has fallen in love with the Yankees all over again, but for an entirely different reason—because they decided to trade away all of their best players and give up.

“I’ve been rooting for this for a few years now,” he said.

The imperial Yankees, the team that has come to define the aggressive, relentless pursuit of excellence in American sports, have finally looked down the barrel of a mediocre season and chosen to surrender.

On Sunday, the team announced it was trading pitcher Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians for a quartet of anonymous young prospects. The following day, it sent Carlos Beltran to the Texas Rangers. Those moves followed a July 25 trade that sent star pitcher Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs.

The Yankees aren’t the first proud, old American business, or even the first baseball team, to bow to the chorus of actuarial nagging. Baseball’s modern conventional wisdom teaches that the best way to build a winner is to take advantage of the lean years by trading your best players to contending teams in exchange for promising young talent.

But for years, the Yankees resisted that idea. The team’s brass found the idea of capitulation abhorrent. They preferred to stand pat, or to open their checkbooks to sign expensive stars who might help them stay competitive. Though they have only won the World Series once since 2001, they haven’t posted a losing record since 1992...
Meh.

I think it was the 1990s when I really began to loathe the Yankees, heh.

I'd rather watch the Mets.

And thank goodness the Angels didn't throw in the towel. There was talk of trading Mike Trout for a platoon of prospects, but that didn't happen. Phew.

Still more.

Thursday, August 4, 2016

In the Mail: Karen Greenberg, Rogue Justice [BUMPED]

I was on campus yesterday, starting my syllabus prep for the fall semester, and I picked this up from my mailbox.

At Amazon, Karen J. Greenberg, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.

Aly Raisman

This young lady's looking good.


Amy Walter at Cook Political Report: Election 2016? It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

As I mentioned this morning, I'm bearish on the Trump campaign at this point. And just as much as anyone else, I know that it's a long season and lots can happen between now and November. And I also know that there's a lot of unknown variables that make predicting outcomes extremely risky, especially those based on current polling trends. What's mostly gotten to me is the leftist media's relentless attack strategy, which is so one-sided it's literally sickening. No, it's not Trump's fault, with his gaffes or whatever, that the press isn't covering Hillary and the administration's massive failures, scandals, and cover-ups. It's just what they do, and I'm reminding myself of how hard Andrew Breitbart used to hit the "Democrat Media Complex" for its corruption. Indeed, I was almost shocked at the practically extreme and brutal tirade he launched at the press corps during Sarah Palin's campaign rally in Anaheim in 2010. I wrote at the time, "Breitbart brought the crowd to cheering roars when he went straight at the press corps on top of the media stand beyond the crowd..."

So, I'm extremely skeptical of Donald Trump's chances right now and I'm almost given over to throwing in the towel. This morning I was just making light of all the polls on Twitter, engaging Louise Mensch, who's now trying to get me to retract my support for the Manhattan mogul. (And see, from earlier, "Donald Trump '24-Hours of Disaster' Screencap.")

But I'm not there yet.

Meanwhile, here's Amy Walter, at the Cook Political Report, "The 2016 Race Is Not Over."

Walter's a leftist, but she's an empirical numbers lady. I've always thought she was pretty fair overall. She apparently loathes Trump (if her Twitter feed is any evidence), but she's not ready to join the collective beat down announcing the Trump implosion.


I'll have more, as always.

WATCH: New York Times 'Uncensored' Video of 'Voices' from Donald Trump's Rallies

I saw this at the NYT homepage at least a week ago, and rolled my eyes.

And according to Truth Revolt, for good reason.

See, "New York Times Edits Video of Trump Supporters Only Being ‘Angry, Provocative’."

NYT should make a video of anti-Trump voices and see how that turns out. Costa Mesa alone was enough to shock the nation. And then you had Sacramento, which was in some ways even more vicious.

FWIW, here's the video on YouTube, "Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump's Crowds - The New York Times."

Britney Spears Flaunts Bikini Body in Hawaii

She's keeping in good shape.

At London's Daily Mail, "Beach bum! Britney Spears shows off her enviable figure in a red bikini as she enjoys bonding day with family."

Israel Charges World Vision's Gaza Director of Funneling Cash to Hamas

Shoot, we might as well open up Western banks for terrorists and their state-sponsor to walk in and clean house.

We're talking millions of dollars funneled to Hamas through so-called "humanitarian" NGOs.

I'd say it's a bloody joke, but it's much too deadly serious. It's Murder Inc.

At London's Daily Mail, "Israel alleges Gaza World Vision head sent millions to Hamas."

And at the Times of Israel, "Israel charges senior Gaza aid worker with funneling tens of millions to Hamas: Muhammad Halabi indicted in Israeli court."



Zakaria Bulhan: London Somali Attack Suspect Identified as 19-Year-Old Who Was 'Bullied at School...'

Saw this just now, at London's Daily Mail. It always takes them forever to release the name of the suspect when it's a Islamic jihad attack.

See, "Somali Russell Square knifeman, 19, was 'a quiet shy pupil who was bullied at his London secondary school'..."

Also, at the Mirror U.K., "Teenage Russell Square attack suspect named after American killed and five others stabbed."

PREVIOUSLY: "'Mentally Ill Norwegian-Somalian' Somehow Creates 'Knife Bloodbath' in London's Russell Square," and "Yovel Levkowski, Beautiful Young Israeli, Stabbed by 'Norwegian-Somalian' in London Russell Square Attack."

Australian Cartoonist Bill Leak Accused of Racism

Heh.

I think it's a funny cartoon.

You needed a WHITE cop to be really racist, lol.

The drawing ran at the Australian, which is Murdoch-owned, hence the outrage.

At the Guardian U.K., "Bill Leak accused of racism in 'insulting' cartoon on Indigenous parenting."