This is a trip, because I've been drinking Elysian Brewing Company's Space Dust IPA, which come to find out, is really produced by Anheuser-Busch, which bought 10 Barrel Brewing a couple of years ago.
Actually, I'm against the protest. I'm for the free market to determine the winners and losers. If 10 Barrel's beers are no good, people won't drink them.
At the San Diego Union-Tribune, "East Village's 10 Barrel Brewing prepares for a party and a protest."
And at ABC News 10 San Diego:
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Here We Go Again with the 'Special Counsel'
Ha!
This is great.
Following-up from yesterday, "Robert Mueller Named Special Counsel in Russia Investigation," where I wrote: "If memory serves, past special prosecutions have been a joke."
Well, yeah.
I think the editors at the Wall Street Journal have been reading my blog.
See, "The Special Counsel Mistake" (via Memeorandum and InfoWars):
This is great.
Following-up from yesterday, "Robert Mueller Named Special Counsel in Russia Investigation," where I wrote: "If memory serves, past special prosecutions have been a joke."
Well, yeah.
I think the editors at the Wall Street Journal have been reading my blog.
See, "The Special Counsel Mistake" (via Memeorandum and InfoWars):
The special counsel mistake: Rosenstein bends to political pressure, and here we go again. https://t.co/N6vgc24swr— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) May 18, 2017
Democrats and their media allies finally got their man. After weeks of political pressure, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein blinked late Wednesday and announced that he has named a special counsel to investigate Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. These expeditions rarely end well for anyone, and Democrats are hoping this one will bedevil the Trump Administration for the next four years.RTWT.
“My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted,” said Mr. Rosenstein, which is nice but irrelevant. With Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused from the Russia probe, Mr. Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller III, who will now have unlimited time and resources to investigate more or less anything and anyone he wants.
While the decision will provide some short-term political relief, not least for Mr. Rosenstein, it also opens up years of political risk to the Trump Administration with no guarantee that the public will end up with any better understanding of what really happened.
The problem with special counsels, as we’ve learned time and again, is that they are by definition all but politically unaccountable...
Bella Thorne Flashes Pierced Nipple on Snapchat
I thought Disney was sending these girls back to school?
I guess that's for the up-and-coming stars. Ms. Bella's hit bottom and past redemption, I guess.
She's crazier than ever.
At Taxi Driver, "Bella Thorne Shows Us Her Piercing."
I guess that's for the up-and-coming stars. Ms. Bella's hit bottom and past redemption, I guess.
She's crazier than ever.
At Taxi Driver, "Bella Thorne Shows Us Her Piercing."
The Left's Assault on President Trump is the Greatest Threat to the U.S. Today
It's Professor Stephen Cohen, who's married to Katrina Katrina vanden Heuvel, the publisher and editor of the Nation.
This is really interesting.
This is really interesting.
"What’s the number one threat to the United States today? The Assault on President Trump." - Stephen Cohen#Tucker #ComeyMemo #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/1QVnrmNgvX
— Vote Trump Pics (@VoteTrumpPics) May 17, 2017
Stephen Cohen on "assault" on @POTUS: "This is beyond belief now, and has become...a national security threat to us in itself." #Tucker pic.twitter.com/T3SJDYbDVa
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 17, 2017
Will Republicans Stick with Trump?
Not if their own material interests are threatened by the president's difficulties and inexperience, writes Josh Kraushaar, at National Journal:
Biggest political question: will R voters stick w Trump? Yes, in short term. But this is beginning of end https://t.co/Xp9K4PY8x3
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) May 17, 2017
Trump's Statements Are Not an Obstruction of Justice
A great piece, from Elizabeth Price Foley, via Instapundit:
Principled objections to Mr. Trump’s policies and leadership style should not blind opponents to the dangers of repeated, knee-jerk calls for criminal prosecution of the president of the United States. Let the evidence unfold, and reserve serious charges if and when the evidence warrants it. Crying wolf undermines the credibility of the opposition, further divides an already deeply divided country and breeds cynicism about American institutions that is as dangerous to our republic, if not more, than outside meddling.A great piece. RTWT.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Danielle Gersh's Warm-Up Forecast
It was still cloudy and cool today, but as noted by Ms. Evelyn last night, a high pressure system is moving in by the end of the week, and with it warmer temperatures.
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle:
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle:
The Most Important Book for College Graduates to Read
According to Bill Gates, it's Steven Pinker's, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
I've been meaning to read it, actually.
I've been meaning to read it, actually.
Bill Gates says this is the most important book for college grads to read https://t.co/XsKtlp1tGf via @qz— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) May 18, 2017
Shop Today
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
Especially, Military and Tactical Boots.
And, Save on the Hoover FloorMate Deluxe Hard Floor Cleaner.
Also, Esbit CS585HA 3-Piece Lightweight Camping Cook Set for Use with Solid Fuel Tablets.
Plus, Save on Fire Tablets.
More, Lasko 1827 Adjustable Elegance and Performance Pedestal Fan, 18-Inch, Black.
BONUS: Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939.
At Amazon, Today's Deals.
Especially, Military and Tactical Boots.
And, Save on the Hoover FloorMate Deluxe Hard Floor Cleaner.
Also, Esbit CS585HA 3-Piece Lightweight Camping Cook Set for Use with Solid Fuel Tablets.
Plus, Save on Fire Tablets.
More, Lasko 1827 Adjustable Elegance and Performance Pedestal Fan, 18-Inch, Black.
BONUS: Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939.
Robert Mueller Named Special Counsel in Russia Investigation
I guess it was inevitable, although I don't see this as a victory for anyone.
If memory serves, past special prosecutions have been a joke.
If memory serves, past special prosecutions have been a joke.
Robert S. Mueller III named special prosecutor, dramatically raising stakes for Trump in Russia investigations https://t.co/wiouaQfHVV
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 17, 2017
Just ask Hillary: The appointment of a special counsel gives Trump short-term relief--and a big long-term risk. https://t.co/sD3RKe9oH0
— Susan Page (@SusanPage) May 18, 2017
Iryna Ivanova in Red Bikini
At Your Daily Girl, "Iryna Ivanova for Knockerz Magazine."
Also at the Daily Star, "Who is Iryna Ivanova? Ukranian Playboy model says ‘boobies’ are the key to success."
Also at the Daily Star, "Who is Iryna Ivanova? Ukranian Playboy model says ‘boobies’ are the key to success."
Intelligence Leaks Wound America
From James Dobbins, at USA Today:
#Russia intelligence leaks aim at #DonaldTrump, but wound America: https://t.co/WphFv2QMCU
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 17, 2017
#PresidentTrump's Fans Shrug Off Oval Office Leak.
I'm shrugging, although I'd expect folks at the White House to get their stuff together, and fast. It's a little too exciting over there.
At Politico:
At Politico:
Trump's fans shrug off Oval Office leak https://t.co/cJRfVOZ71M via @POLITICOMag pic.twitter.com/9rhdsV9MWp
— POLITICO (@politico) May 16, 2017
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Eric Hinderaker, At the Edge of Empire
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Eric Hinderaker, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.
At Amazon, Eric Hinderaker, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.
Evelyn Taft's Warming Weather Forecast
Sunny but mild all day today. You could've worn a light jacket and been perfectly comfortable.
I prefer it a little warmer myself, but not bad. Not bad.
Here's the lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
I prefer it a little warmer myself, but not bad. Not bad.
Here's the lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Trump Administration's Tempers Flare
It's a little off message these days, I'll admit.
It's not what you want, actually.
But, who're you gonna trust?
FWIW, at the New York Times, "At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls":
It's not what you want, actually.
But, who're you gonna trust?
FWIW, at the New York Times, "At a Besieged White House, Tempers Flare and Confusion Swirls":
One other thing to bear in mind - Trump is dreading the overseas trip https://t.co/FoEfQGlOrZ— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 16, 2017
WASHINGTON — The disclosure that President Trump divulged classified intelligence to two high-ranking Russian officials was a new blow to an already dispirited and besieged White House staff still recovering from the uproar and recriminations from the president’s firing of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director.
Mr. Trump’s appetite for chaos, coupled with his disregard for the self-protective conventions of the presidency, have left his staff confused and squabbling. And his own mood, according to two advisers who spoke on the condition of anonymity, has become sour and dark, turning against most of his aides — even his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — and describing them in a fury as “incompetent,” according to one of those advisers.
Even before the latest bombshell dropped, reports swirled in the White House that the president was about to embark on a major shake-up, probably starting with the dismissal or reassignment of Sean Spicer, the press secretary.
Mr. Trump’s rattled staff kept close tabs on a meeting early Monday in which the president summoned Mr. Spicer; the deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders; and the communications director, Michael Dubke, to lecture them on the need “to get on the same page,” according to a person briefed on the meeting. Even as Mr. Trump reassured advisers like Mr. Spicer that their jobs were safe at the morning meeting, he told other advisers he knew he needed to make big changes but did not know which direction to go in, or whom to select.
Later, reporters could hear senior aides shouting from behind closed doors as they discussed a defense after Washington Post reporters informed them of an article they were writing that first reported the news about the president’s divulging of intelligence.
As they struggled to limit the fallout on Monday, Mr. Spicer and other Trump aides decided to send Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, to serve as a surrogate.
They realized that selecting such a high official would in some ways validate the story, but they wanted to establish a credible witness account exonerating the president from wrongdoing — before the barrage of Twitter posts they knew would be coming from Mr. Trump on Tuesday morning.
The White House counsel’s office worked with the Army general on framing language, producing a clipped sound bite: “The story that came out tonight as reported is false.”
As he was working on his statement, General McMaster — a former combat commander who appeared uncomfortable in a civilian suit and black-framed glasses — nearly ran into reporters staking out Mr. Spicer’s office.
“This is the last place in the world I wanted to be,” he said, perhaps in jest.
As the general approached microphones on the blacktop in front of the West Wing, one of his deputies responsible for coping with the fallout, Dina Powell, could be seen peering behind the reporter pack to see how her boss’s statement was being received.
On Capitol Hill, there were signs that Republicans, who mostly held the line after Mr. Comey’s ouster, were growing alarmed by and impatient with Mr. Trump’s White House operation.
“There need to be serious changes at the White House, immediately,” said Senator Patrick J. Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican who wants Mr. Trump to appoint a Democrat to head the F.B.I. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, called on Mr. Trump to operate with “less drama” on Tuesday....
*****
There is a growing sense that Mr. Trump seems unwilling or unable to do the things necessary to keep himself out of trouble, and that the presidency has done little to tame a shoot-from-the-hip-into-his-own-foot style that characterized his campaign.
There is a fear among some of Mr. Trump’s senior advisers about leaving him alone in meetings with foreign leaders out of concern he might speak out of turn. General McMaster, in particular, has tried to insert caveats or gentle corrections into conversations when he believes the president is straying off topic or onto boggy diplomatic ground.
This has, at times, chafed the president, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation. Mr. Trump, who still openly laments having to dismiss his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, has groused that General McMaster talks too much in meetings, and the president has referred to him as “a pain,” according to one of the officials...
Alexa Chung for Vogue U.K. June 2017
Click through for the photos:
Say it with stripes: @Alexa_Chung sports #MichaelKorsCollection on the June cover of @BritishVogue. 📸: @MarioTestino pic.twitter.com/1rHMta4GIN
— Michael Kors (@MichaelKors) May 15, 2017
Vogue UK June 2017 - Alexa Chung By Mario Testino #BritishVogue - photos: https://t.co/NGFgWC3KZY pic.twitter.com/xpIVC6cLkQ
— Kendam (@kendam_com) May 13, 2017
Emily Ratajkowski and Her Hot Mom
At the New York Post (and Ms. Emily's Twitter entry for last year below):
She got it from her mama https://t.co/26enRVFOj8
— Page Six (@PageSix) May 15, 2017
Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful Ma. pic.twitter.com/D7MvhqgZaK
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) May 8, 2016
Daniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry
Drezner did a job talk at UCSB about 1996. His blog was the first blog I read, followed by Althouse. He used to be libertarian, even kinda conservative on economics. But increasingly he became a leftist, and appeared on panels (if memory serves me) with the infamous Israel-basher Stephen Walt.
That said, he's an interesting guy who writes quirky books.
Here's his latest, at Amazon, Daniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.
That said, he's an interesting guy who writes quirky books.
Here's his latest, at Amazon, Daniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.
'Black Magic Woman'
From yesterday afternoon's drive-time, at the Sound L.A.
Note, back then, Gregg Rolie, who later co-founded Journey, was Santana's lead singer.
Note, back then, Gregg Rolie, who later co-founded Journey, was Santana's lead singer.
Magic Man
Heart
4:56 PM
Simple Man
Lynyrd Skynyrd
4:51 PM
Doctor My Eyes
Jackson Browne
4:48 PM
Have a Cigar
Pink Floyd
4:43 PM
Can't You See
The Marshall Tucker Band
4:37 PM
Message In a Bottle
The Police
4:32 PM
Help Me, Rhonda
The Beach Boys
4:29 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
4:24 PM
Sweet Emotion
Aerosmith
4:19 PM
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Live)
George Thorogood
4:11 PM
Jet
Paul McCartney & Wings
4:07 PM
I've Seen All Good People: A. Your Move / B. All Good People
Yes
4:00 PM
Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
Santana
3:54 PM
I Won't Back Down
Tom Petty
3:52 PM
Tush
ZZ Top
3:49 PM
Space Oddity
David Bowie
3:45 PM
You Really Got Me
Van Halen
3:35 PM
Our Responsibilities as the Survivor Generation
From Daniella Greenbaum, at Commentary, "A Reminder Not to Forget."
— Commentary Magazine (@Commentary) April 25, 2017
Bill Nye and Rachel Bloom Demonstrate Why Trump Won
This is from a few weeks back. I've been meaning to post it. First seen on Twitter, at Countermoonbat's feed.
Seriously, this makes even progressives cringe. It's bad.
BONUS: At Pajamas, "Bill Nye the 'Vagina Guy' Indoctrinates Kids Into Gay Sex on Netflix."
UPDATE: Leftists tried to take down the video after the outrage, but the Internet is forever. Here's copy of the clip on YouTube, "My Sex Junk by Rachel Bloom ft. Bill Nye the Science Guy."
Seriously, this makes even progressives cringe. It's bad.
I know it's a cliche now but my god, this is why Trump won. pic.twitter.com/xT8co3YZu1— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) April 24, 2017
BONUS: At Pajamas, "Bill Nye the 'Vagina Guy' Indoctrinates Kids Into Gay Sex on Netflix."
UPDATE: Leftists tried to take down the video after the outrage, but the Internet is forever. Here's copy of the clip on YouTube, "My Sex Junk by Rachel Bloom ft. Bill Nye the Science Guy."
Democrats Look to 2020
Well, this oughta be good, heh.
At NYT:
At NYT:
New 2020 names:
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 1, 2017
- national donors prodding GARCETTI
- MOULTON not ruling it out in private
- and LANDRIEU! https://t.co/aEAUaXtvHC
Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights
At Amazon, Susan A. Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq.
On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America.
In Why America Fights, Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her intriguing account ranges from analyses of wartime messages to descriptions of the actual operations, from the dissemination of patriotic ads and posters to the management of newspaper, radio, and TV media. When Woodrow Wilson carried the nation into World War I, he created the Committee on Public Information, led by George Creel, who called his job "the world's greatest adventure in advertising." In World War II, Roosevelt's Office of War Information avowed a "strategy of truth," though government propaganda still depicted Japanese soldiers as buck-toothed savages. After examining the ultimately failed struggle to cast the Vietnam War in a favorable light, Brewer shows how the Bush White House drew explicit lessons from that history as it engaged in an unprecedented effort to sell a preemptive war in Iraq. Yet the thrust of its message was not much different from McKinley's pronouncements about America's civilizing mission.
Impressively researched and argued, filled with surprising details, Why America Fights shows how presidents have consistently drummed up support for foreign wars by appealing to what Americans want to believe about themselves.
The Syrian Horrorscape
Obama's legacy in Syria.
At the New York Review of Books, "In the Horrorscape of Aleppo":
Keep reading.
At the New York Review of Books, "In the Horrorscape of Aleppo":
In the Horrorscape of Aleppo. https://t.co/ifTryoXPRY via @nybooks— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) May 2, 2017
Over six years of war, millions of Syrians have suffered; beyond the almost 500,000 killed, many more have been paralyzed, disfigured, blinded, traumatized, and uprooted from their homes and communities. As of January, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had registered nearly five million Syrian refugees, in addition to the six million displaced within the country. The demolished neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo make this brutally clear. They contained more than half of Aleppo’s population, until opposition fighters began seizing the area in 2012. Although measures of population movement are guesses at best, international aid agencies report that at least 50,000 eastern Aleppines fled to the western part of the city to avoid shelling by the regime or chaotic jihadist rule. Thousands more made their way to the government-controlled, war-free coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, to Lebanon, or to Turkey, which offered visa-free entry, work permits, and, for many months in 2015, a blind eye to any who dared the perilous sea route to Europe.Almost unbelievable, in this day and age.
In December 2016 the Syrian army, with Russian support, conquered the last insurgent strongholds in Aleppo’s east. UNHCR officials believe that about 36,000 people, rebels and their families, departed by bus under Russian protection for the opposition redoubt in Idlib province. What they left behind conjures memories of Dresden, Coventry, and Tokyo in the aftermath of World War II. The multiple forms of destruction testify to the ingenuity of the world’s arms factories. Bombs have transformed Aleppo into an Escher-like vision of six-foot-thick concrete slabs twisted into braids; five-story apartment buildings compressed into piles ten feet high; and collapsed façades of entire streets exposing rooms with ceiling fans eerily intact and revolving in the wind.
This is the horrorscape to which many residents are returning, only to find themselves still homeless. They camp in makeshift tents beside the remains of their homes, sticking close by to deter thieves from seizing unclaimed land at a time when many deeds have been lost or destroyed. Some sleep inside buildings that are exposed to the elements and subject to collapse at any moment. Children die when balconies crumble or they find shiny objects that turn out to be unexploded bombs...
Keep reading.
The Real Outrage Over James Comey's Firing
Heh.
A righteous piece, at NYT:
A righteous piece, at NYT:
For Trump supporters, the real outrage is the left's outrage over Comey's firing https://t.co/fOI6ZSUEC5— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 11, 2017
Fantasy of Impeachment
It's a good piece.
And keep in mind, I think Erick Erickson's a dork.
At NYT:
PREVIOUSLY: "It's Not Watergate People. It's Just Fucking Not."
And keep in mind, I think Erick Erickson's a dork.
At NYT:
Op-Ed Contributor: Erick Erickson: The Fantasy of Impeachment. https://t.co/2gnpZmMT8x— NYT (@NYT) May 13, 2017
PREVIOUSLY: "It's Not Watergate People. It's Just Fucking Not."
Monday, May 15, 2017
Amber Lee's Patchy Drizzle Forecast
It was wet out this morning when I took my son to school, and cool and cloudy for the rest of the day.
Looks like it's going to be very similar tomorrow.
Here's the fabulous Ms. Amber, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Looks like it's going to be very similar tomorrow.
Here's the fabulous Ms. Amber, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Pat Buchanan, Nixon's White House Wars
*BUMPED.*
Great timing.
Just out this week, at Amazon, Pat Buchanan, Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
Great timing.
Just out this week, at Amazon, Pat Buchanan, Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
WaPo's Crap Hit-Piece on 'Highly Classified' Intel is Fake News
It's trending at Memeorandum, "Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador."
Laura Ingraham's calling bull:
I read the piece. All sources are commenting on background. You can't corroborate the details, and as you can see, the White House is denying.
Laura Ingraham's calling bull:
WH source with direct knowledge just told me @washingtonpost didn't talk to ANY U.S. official at mtg w/ Lavrov. "It's Fake News"— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 15, 2017
I read the piece. All sources are commenting on background. You can't corroborate the details, and as you can see, the White House is denying.
Former Olympic Medalist McKayla Maroney on Instagram
At the New York Post, "The side of McKayla Maroney you haven’t seen before."
Also, at IDLYITW, "Ok Then, McKayla Maroney."
Also, at IDLYITW, "Ok Then, McKayla Maroney."
GOOD GOD, MAN #MondayMorning https://t.co/jBDJxGCVeS
— IDLYITW (@IDLYITW) May 15, 2017
Shop Today
At Amazon, Today's Deals. New Deals. Every Day.
Also, Best Sellers in Televisions.
More, Deals in Laptops.
BONUS: Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.
Also, Best Sellers in Televisions.
More, Deals in Laptops.
BONUS: Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.
Danielle Gersh's Fog and Drizzle Forecast
A very similar forecast to Jennifer Delacruz's for the metropolitan San Diego area.
It's going to be foggy and drizzly, and some part of the O.C. coast will be in the low 60s.
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
It's going to be foggy and drizzly, and some part of the O.C. coast will be in the low 60s.
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Why Women Live Longer Than Men
Freakin'-a no doubt!
Seen on Twitter:
Seen on Twitter:
As my wife says to me often, "this is why women live longer than men." https://t.co/VGF6F2qFoU
— Clay Routledge (@clayroutledge) May 1, 2017
Nope nope nope... 😳😳😳
— SPORTbible (@sportbible) March 8, 2017
Credit: https://t.co/l48z1cr3qj pic.twitter.com/3vVf6l7bdR
Our System of Checks and Balances is Under Assault' (VIDEO)
It's James Crapper, er, Clapper, from CNN yesterday.
And no, our system's not under assault --- not by President Trump at least. If there's an assault going on, it's seen in the left's war on our legitimately-elected government. It's seen in the left's revolutionary all-out war on our republic.
Watch, FWIW:
And no, our system's not under assault --- not by President Trump at least. If there's an assault going on, it's seen in the left's war on our legitimately-elected government. It's seen in the left's revolutionary all-out war on our republic.
Watch, FWIW:
Meme War Veteran
Cool hat.
This hat is the most 2017 thing I have yet seen. #Berkeley pic.twitter.com/OVembg6Bma
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) April 27, 2017
Michael Roberts, The Long Depression
A link for any dialectical readers.
At Amazon, The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.
At Amazon, The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.
Emojicast
That's quite a twist on the weather, a hip twist, heh.
A change in our weather pattern after today.Trending cooler... especially next week. Rain chance late Thu & Fri #GMW pic.twitter.com/mEnsWp0duF
— Veronica Johnson (@VJohnsonABC7) May 2, 2017
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Ruchir Sharma, The Rise and Fall of Nations
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Ruchir Sharma, The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World.
At Amazon, Ruchir Sharma, The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World.
Jennifer Delacruz's Drizzly Forecast
It's going to be wet, gray, and cold tomorrow --- not all that unusual weather for mid-May, actually.
Following-up from a little while ago, "Jennifer Delacruz's Cool Cloudy Forecast."
Once more, here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer:
Following-up from a little while ago, "Jennifer Delacruz's Cool Cloudy Forecast."
Once more, here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer:
Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies
I need to read a little more widely over the summer, especially among works in my field.
Here's Samuel Huntington, at Amazon, Political Order in Changing Societies.
Here's Samuel Huntington, at Amazon, Political Order in Changing Societies.
Faith Hill
She's the sweetest thing ever.
Tulsa tonight! #Soul2Soul pic.twitter.com/KbKUwHlfK5
— Faith Hill (@FaithHill) May 11, 2017
The Frightful Five
This is pretty good, from Farhad Manjoo, at NYT.
The "frightful five" are Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Which ones could you do without, from the easiest to the toughest? I'd ditch Facebook with no problems, lol. After that, though, it's not so easy to ditch any of these. We're not just talking about ditching one product, but the entire company. I like Microsoft Word, and at work I like Microsoft Outlook for email. And I'm on Apple all the time, since I have an iPhone, which I love. Amazon's mostly for books and stuff, but Google's my bread and butter. I blog on Google, email with gmail.com, and of course search Google exclusively. It'd be hard to give up. So, you get the picture. Manjoo would be bummed to bail out on Amazon, because he uses it for everything and has been since it first went online, which is interesting.
The "frightful five" are Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Which ones could you do without, from the easiest to the toughest? I'd ditch Facebook with no problems, lol. After that, though, it's not so easy to ditch any of these. We're not just talking about ditching one product, but the entire company. I like Microsoft Word, and at work I like Microsoft Outlook for email. And I'm on Apple all the time, since I have an iPhone, which I love. Amazon's mostly for books and stuff, but Google's my bread and butter. I blog on Google, email with gmail.com, and of course search Google exclusively. It'd be hard to give up. So, you get the picture. Manjoo would be bummed to bail out on Amazon, because he uses it for everything and has been since it first went online, which is interesting.
Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google dominate our lives. What would happen if we had to give them up? https://t.co/Q5jJX0h9y7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 14, 2017
Mother's Day Brings Out the Worst
The worst in feminists, and leftists generally. What is so wrong with these people?
Good grief! I've had three kids and that didn't happen once. https://t.co/UGEihs31Bj
— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) May 14, 2017
THE DAY I PEOPLE FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT WITH THING1 what was the day i ceased to be a person and became a vessel, a body without will
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
THAT DAY I CEASED TO BE A PROFESSOR & PROFESSIONAlL, that day i ceased to have 2 Masters & still debating to complete my PhD...
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
MY INTELLIGENCE
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
MY BRILLIANCE
MY TALENT
MY GALL
everything that could define my being, my brawn, disappeared in an ether of condescension
I WAS NOT TO BE TALKED TO
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
I WAS TO BE TALKED AT
i became the VERIFIED property of my spouse, carrier of his spawn, property of his tribe
and yet...
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
and yet...
MOTHERHOOD IN 'AMERICA'
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
Motherhood is an ideal they hold so high, so dear... it's more than an aspiration; it's a manifest destiny...
MOTHERS IN 'AMERICA'
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
as complete human beings expressed in all their complexities?... what do you mean mothers are people?!?
AMERICA
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
LOVES
THE IDEA OF
MOTHERHOOD
it hates,
nay,
it despises
MOTHERS
to the point of
denying our personhood
and our humanity
MOTHERS
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
shouldn't be paid for their mothering
MOTHERS
shouldn't get all the health care they need
MOTHERS
shouldn't be trusted with choices
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS, if this nation really loved not just mothers but all womb-carriers as PEOPLE, motherhood wouldn't be an ideal
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we wouldn't have politicians giddy sending our babies to war
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we wouldn't have 50 million applauding into the White House a guy who bragged about sexual assault
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we would all have HEALTH CARE as the human right it is, regardless of employment or marital status
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you wouldn't rant about stay-at-home moms as 'welfare queens' but ensured we all had a basic income
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you wouldn't fight so hard to deny us & babies free health care, schooling, food, housing
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE y'all wouldn't spend energy insulting me onhere instead of pondering all the ways y'all mistreat us
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you wouldn't belittle the labor of Mothering & penalize mothers in old age for those unemployed years
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you would never confuse employment with labor and use that to deny mothers social services in old age
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we mothers wouldn't have to defend our CHOICE of motherhood as proof of our will as free individuals
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
YET HERE WE ARE MOTHERING in spite of living in one of the most misogynist, woman-hating, feminine-loathing cultures in Human history
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
YET HERE WE ARE MOTHERING in spite of living in a country where it is still up to debate whether it's a choice to be or not to be a mom
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
TODAY IS MOTHERS' DAY but it would be every day Mothers' Day if we truly loved the people who become mothers and not just the idea
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
I AM NOT AN IDEA
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
i am a woman, a person, an individual, who loves being a mom to my kids and loves mothering everybody around me
MOTHERS AREN'T AN IDEA
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
we are beings in our complexities and contradictions. we are people. we are individuals. we have human rights too
MY LOVE & SOLIDARITY goes out to all the moms & mothering people out there struggling in spite of the odds against us. i hear you. i see you
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
AND TO THE TROLLS SWARMING THANKS TO @MelissaTweets' PRIVILEGED NAY-SAYING you are all exactly proving my point. thanks for playing.
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
ONE MORE POINT: if 'America' truly loved mothers, y'all would adore us BLACK MOTHERS and rebuked as terrorism this:pic.twitter.com/AvkZFkzYT9
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
YOU CANT CLAIM TO LOVE MOTHERS, then find excuses not to support black, indigenous, trans, latinx, immigrant, muslim, poor, working moms
— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017
Jennifer Delacruz's Cool Cloudy Forecast
Here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego.
I'll update if the network's got another video up of Ms. Jennifer later.
I'll update if the network's got another video up of Ms. Jennifer later.
Sunday Cartoons
At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."
Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
#Trump to Clean House? Who's next? #YoureFired #ComeyFiring #MAGA #BenGarrison #cartoons prints https://t.co/kkVVbMtLnA pic.twitter.com/ikrwn5vw44
— BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) May 14, 2017
Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Saturday, May 13, 2017
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Lolz: Feminist Professor Caroline Heldman Weighs In on Firing of James Comey (VIDEO)
She's such an idiot.
Remember, from last month, "Professor Caroline Heldman Calls for 80 Percent Tax on the Rich (VIDEO)"?
Well, the far-left hypocrite's back, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Remember, from last month, "Professor Caroline Heldman Calls for 80 Percent Tax on the Rich (VIDEO)"?
Well, the far-left hypocrite's back, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Uproar Over ABC's Cancellation of Conservative Tim Allen's Hit Show 'Last Man Standing'
Seriously. My wife and I love that show. It airs at 8:00pm on Friday nights, which is great. It comes on right after you've had dinner and had time to clean the kitchen. I always sit down to watch for a while, before going to my man cave for blogging and reading. And to think, "Last Man Standing" was having its best year in the ratings, its sixth season, and was averaging 8.1 million weekly viewers, behind only the leftist freak show "Modern Family."
Lame.
At Heat Street:
Lame.
At Heat Street:
#ABC Besieged by Boycott Calls Over Cancellation of Conservative Tim Allen’s Show 'Last Man Standing': #BoycottABC https://t.co/XElPjFyYAB— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 13, 2017
San Carlos #KinderCare Cited for Numerous Violations (VIDEO)
My kid used to attend #KinderCare back in the day, in Fountain Valley and Irvine. It's such a nightmare sometimes. If you don't have family in the area, and you have a career --- as both my wife and I do --- it's a bummer to put your child in the hands of strangers. You have to be super vigilant. With luck, you'll wind up with excellent caregivers. We finally found a daycare center in Irvine with the owner who had her own special needs children, so she made sure our son got the attention he needed. But it takes a while until you can find the right place. This center in San Carlos should be shut down. Either that, or parents should bail out until it goes out of business.
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
Kristen Keogh's Mother's Day Forecast
The lovely Ms. Kristen's been away for a while.
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
Court Rules Kentucky Print Shop Has Right to Avoid Making Gay Pride T-shirts
Good.
Screw the homosexual Nazis.
At WSJ (via Memeorandum and Vox Populi):
Screw the homosexual Nazis.
At WSJ (via Memeorandum and Vox Populi):
Court Rules Kentucky Print Shop Has Right to Avoid Making Gay Pride Shirts... https://t.co/xEoLZoiPgp— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) May 13, 2017
A Kentucky appellate court on Friday ruled that the Christian owner of a printing shop in Lexington had the right to refuse to make T-shirts promoting a local gay pride festival.Flashback to the Weekly Standard, "You Will Be Assimilated":
The dispute represents the latest court fight testing the limits of antidiscrimination protections for gays and lesbians following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
The cases have led to a number of state court rulings against Christian-owned businesses that refused to bake cakes, design floral arrangements or take portrait photographs for same-sex weddings.
The ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals favored the business owner. A crucial difference in this case was the expressive nature of the service denied: literally words on a shirt.
In a split vote, a three-judge panel concluded that the store, Hands on Originals, couldn’t be forced to print a message with which the owner disagreed.
The dispute started in 2012 when Gay and Lesbian Services Organization in Kentucky asked Hands on Originals to make T-shirts with the name and logo of a pride festival...
You Will Be Assimilatedhttp://t.co/1gu8Ivan7U pic.twitter.com/dguZejRK72— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) June 26, 2015
Rush Limbaugh: 'I Wish People Would Take a Moment and Step Back, and Realize What an Epic Presidency This Is?' (AUDIO)
At RCP, "Limbaugh: Can We Take a Moment and Appreciate How Epic Trump Presidency Is?"
I wish people would take a moment to step back and realize what an epic presidency this is and realize we are never gonna see anything like this again our lifetimes, and we’ve never had it prior to this in my lifetime. I mean, normally we get idiots like Jimmy Carter, who do great damaging things. I mean, while Trump is doing all this, the country is vastly improving! As I have detailed today. Some of the core things that were destroying the guts of this country are being reversed. And it’s…
Trump and Russia, Nixon and Watergate
Following-up from yesterday, "It's Not Watergate People. It's Just Fucking Not."
Here's another good comparative piece, at USA Today.
It's not the same, people. Leftists have gone insane.
Here's another good comparative piece, at USA Today.
It's not the same, people. Leftists have gone insane.
Trump and Russia, Nixon and Watergate: What's different? https://t.co/yF064I23yD (Photo: AP) pic.twitter.com/yGldO7N2Ru
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 11, 2017
Friday, May 12, 2017
Chris Wallace's 'Must-Watch' Critique of Trump White House (VIDEO)
I don't know if it's "must watch," but it's interesting.
At Mediaite, "‘It Took My Breath Away’: Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House."
Remember, Chris Wallace is an establishment insider. He represents the "hard news" side of the Fox News bullpen. Indeed, expect to see more of this kind of harsh, critical anti-Trump commentary as the network attempts to restore its mojo following the relentless left-wing wave of diabolical lawfare.
More video, with Martha MacCallum, "Wallace: White House answers only raise more questions."
At Mediaite, "‘It Took My Breath Away’: Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House."
'It Took My Breath Away': Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House https://t.co/tBvkODvgcT (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/qTzr5455AO
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 12, 2017
Remember, Chris Wallace is an establishment insider. He represents the "hard news" side of the Fox News bullpen. Indeed, expect to see more of this kind of harsh, critical anti-Trump commentary as the network attempts to restore its mojo following the relentless left-wing wave of diabolical lawfare.
More video, with Martha MacCallum, "Wallace: White House answers only raise more questions."
Belgium Shining Bright from Space
A great piece, which points out Belgium's environmental hypocrisy.
Beautiful photography too. Absolutely astonishing.
At NYT:
Beautiful photography too. Absolutely astonishing.
At NYT:
A Photo From Space Shows Belgium Shining Bright, and Social Media Lights Up. https://t.co/clqnd3Pe0b
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 12, 2017
James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods
*BUMPED.*
Merrell's a phenomenal scholar. Just absolutely outstanding.
Don't miss his work.
At Amazon, James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier.
Merrell's a phenomenal scholar. Just absolutely outstanding.
Don't miss his work.
At Amazon, James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier.
Verizon AT&T Chick Has a Great Rack
It's Milana Vayntrub, and she's hot.
At Celeb Jihad, "MILANA VAYNTRUB PARTYING WITH HER TITS OUT."
ADDED: At Playboy, "That Girl From the AT&T Commercials Looks Way Better When She's Not in Uniform." Also, at AdWeek, "How Milana Vayntrub Quickly Rose From Surprise Ad Star Into a Creative Force for Good."
At Celeb Jihad, "MILANA VAYNTRUB PARTYING WITH HER TITS OUT."
ADDED: At Playboy, "That Girl From the AT&T Commercials Looks Way Better When She's Not in Uniform." Also, at AdWeek, "How Milana Vayntrub Quickly Rose From Surprise Ad Star Into a Creative Force for Good."
It's Not Watergate People. It's Just Fucking Not
I found the comparisons amusing the other night. I'm finding them fucking infuriating now.
Far-left tool James Fallows blocked me eons ago on Twitter, or else I'd give him a piece of my mind. Here's his hacktastic hot-take today, via Memeorandum, "Five Reasons Why the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate.
It's not worse people. It's not even close. Leftist hysteria is peaking, but we're not there yet. It's going to get worse. Progs will lose their minds, and publicly. There'll be violence.
I've seen a few good articles making reasonable comparisons, but so far this one's the best, and amazingly, it's at the left-wing BBC, "Comey sacking doesn't rise to Watergate levels" (via Instapundit):
Far-left tool James Fallows blocked me eons ago on Twitter, or else I'd give him a piece of my mind. Here's his hacktastic hot-take today, via Memeorandum, "Five Reasons Why the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate.
It's not worse people. It's not even close. Leftist hysteria is peaking, but we're not there yet. It's going to get worse. Progs will lose their minds, and publicly. There'll be violence.
I've seen a few good articles making reasonable comparisons, but so far this one's the best, and amazingly, it's at the left-wing BBC, "Comey sacking doesn't rise to Watergate levels" (via Instapundit):
How does the Saturday Night Massacre from Watergate compare to #Comey's termination?
— BBC North America (@BBCNorthAmerica) May 11, 2017
https://t.co/f1lNpbcvhS
The New York Times called for the president to leave office immediately, describing it as "the last great service" he could perform for the country.Keep reading.
The Washington Post demanded impeachment, followed by a Senate trial. Time magazine, deeming it necessary to publish its first-ever editorial, thundered: "The president should resign."
Outside the White House, protesters waved placards at passing motorists: "Honk for Impeachment." Even Washington's most influential columnist, Stewart Alsop, who was normally supportive of the president, called him an "ass." The president had lost his moral authority, argued his critics, and with it, his ability to govern. The country faced a constitutional crisis. The republic was imperilled.
Such was the feverish reaction to the events of 20 October, 1973, a date remembered in the national memory as the "Saturday Night Massacre" - a pivotal moment in the unfolding Watergate controversy.
With scandal engulfing the White House, Richard Nixon decided to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate "all offenses arising out of the 1972 election… involving the president, the White House staff or presidential appointments".
Nixon's Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and his Deputy Attorney General, William Ruckelshaus, resigned rather than carry out the president's order. Eventually, the Solicitor General Robert Bork, who was third in command at the justice department, was prepared to fire Cox.
The White House announced the news at 20:22 that Saturday evening.
On Wednesday, almost as quickly as the news that he had been sacked as head of the FBI reached James Comey in Los Angeles, these two dramatic episodes were being described as historically analogous.
The president had fired the lead figure in an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by members of his own team.
The Nixonian parallels were obvious.
Roger Stone, a Trump associate who also worked in 1972 for the notorious Committee to Re-elect the President, told the New York Times: "Somewhere Dick Nixon is smiling."
The Nixon presidential library even trolled the White House on Twitter: "FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian."
Democrats insinuated that Comey was fired for similar reasons to Cox, because he was closing in on the truth.
There were other resemblances, too. In the lead-up to the Saturday Night Massacre, the Nixon White House was still reeling from the resignation of the president's chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, a central figure in the Watergate scandal, just as the Trump administration continues to be buffeted by the swirl of controversy surrounding the forced departure of Gen Michael Flynn, his former National Security Adviser.
There's the suspicion now, as there was four decades ago, that an embattled White House has something to hide.
So is this truly a re-run of the events of 1973? Is the past repeating itself?
Even by the standards of the Nixon presidency, the autumn of 1973 was unusually chaotic...
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Leftist Media Hysteria Over James Comey Firing (VIDEO)
A quick clip with from RCP, "Mollie Hemingway: Manner With Which Media Covering Comey Story Borderline Delusional."
And at Fox News, the inimitable Charles Krauthammer:
And at Fox News, the inimitable Charles Krauthammer:
Thanks to the Reader Who Bought John Keegan's, The Face of Battle
Actually, thanks to all my readers for visiting the blog, reading my posts and sharing, and of course shopping through my Amazon links. I greatly appreciate it.
But here I wanted to give a shout out to my reader who picked up a copy of Keegan's, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. That's a classic book. It was cited in the footnotes of my scholarly readings in grad school, all the time. I had kind of a flashback moment seeing the title pop up in my associate's statistics page.
Thanks again!
But here I wanted to give a shout out to my reader who picked up a copy of Keegan's, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. That's a classic book. It was cited in the footnotes of my scholarly readings in grad school, all the time. I had kind of a flashback moment seeing the title pop up in my associate's statistics page.
Thanks again!
Teaching Racism in K-12 Classrooms
From Matthew Vadum, at FrontPage Magazine, "Leftist educators are corrupting the young":
Teaching Racism in K-12 Classrooms @fpmaghttps://t.co/1s86edlNBO— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) May 9, 2017
Teachers at Highlands Elementary, a school in Edina, Minnesota, are indoctrinating five-year-olds in order to radicalize them and encourage them to become activists obsessed with race.More.
Public school teachers across America already saturate students with information about racial injustice in America in a nonstop barrage of historic facts and ahistorical nonsense. And in the culture at large, the media, politicians, and the entertainment industry can’t stop talking about race. The last thing any young student in America needs is to be taught about is race. Race matters only to radicals.
Leftists believe you have to get ’em while they’re young and impressionable.
Marxist theorist Paolo Freire advocated in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, that schools be used to inculcate radical values in students so they become agents of social change. Freire held that the so-called dominant pedagogy “silences” poor and minority children and that there is no such thing as a neutral educational system.
Joining Freire in his desire to use the educational system to level institutions is unrepentant communist terrorist and education theorist Bill Ayers, who has long advocated poisoning the minds of the young so they can agitate to fundamentally transform American society.
“If we want change to come, we would do well not to look at the sites of power we have no access to; the White House, the Congress, the Pentagon,” he said in 2012. “We have absolute access to the community, the school, the neighborhood, the street, the classroom, the workplace, the shop, the farm.”
This brings us to Highlands Elementary, which is located in one of the most affluent cities in Minnesota. Its school district is among the best in the state, Daniel Lattier reports at Intellectual Takeout. Highlands students do well in standardized testing: more than 85 percent of its students are proficient in reading and math.
But racial and social justice indoctrination have found their way onto the Highlands curriculum over the past year, according to Lattier. The phenomenon is not limited to Highlands, he adds. “[A] large percentage of students in public schools today are being trained to view the world primarily through the lenses of race, class, and gender.”
Katie Mahoney, who took over as principal of Highlands last fall, is proud of the school’s “Melanin Project.” She tweeted April 26: “Kindergarten tackles the Melanin project! @edinaschools @LeslieStageberg[.]” (Leslie Stageberg is a teacher.)
A poster made of construction paper is shown that reads, "Stop thinking your skin color is better than anyone elses[sic]! Everyone is Special!"
This message in itself isn’t sinister. American children shouldn’t be taught skin color is a mark of superiority, inferiority, or of anything in particular.
But one has to question the appropriateness of getting intellectually, emotionally immature Kindergarteners thinking about skin color at all, before they know how to think critically.
Why the rush?
It is to soften young minds in order to make the indoctrination process easier throughout students’ time in school. If a young child is already self-righteously hyperventilating about race and supposed systemic racism in America, it makes that child more susceptible to other leftist ideas.
The Highlands Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) wasn’t lying when it stated in the banner photo of its Facebook page that “Highlands is Planting Seeds of Change.”
Something else about the Melanin Project is disturbing. Discussions of melanin have an ugly pedigree. Racists are particularly fascinated by melanin.
Radical activists use melanin for political purposes, spewing pseudoscientific nonsense to create the illusion that their warped ideas about race somehow have an empirical basis in science. Melanin itself, a blanket term for a group of pigments, is the primary determinant of human skin color. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun triggers a process by which an amino acid called tyrosine becomes melanin, which protects the skin from sun damage. The thinking is that over time the more a population is exposed to the sun, the more melanin is generated and the darker their skin.
Leonard Jeffries Jr., a black studies professor at the City College of New York, is an influential thinker on the black racist Left. This Afrocentrist academic embraces “melanin theory,” maintaining that melanin possesses supernatural powers and makes those who have large quantities of it smarter and stronger than those who don’t. Blacks are therefore, peaceful and compassionate “sun people,” and are culturally and racially superior to whites, the violent, cruel “ice people.” Melanin empowers black people to “negotiate the vibrations of the universe and to deal with the ultraviolet rays of the sun," Jeffries says.
This fetishizing of human anatomy is surprisingly commonplace on the Left. The low-rent James Baldwin wannabe, Ta-Nehisi Coates, now the toast of bicoastal elites and academics, talks about “black bodies” as objects worthy of veneration without regard to the individuals occupying them. His phraseology is now boilerplate among members of the violent, racist Black Lives Matter movement.
Highlands was recently awarded a grant that will allow fourth- and fifth-graders to take part in the Stages Theatre Company’s “Perspectives on Peace” (PoP) project, Lattier notes. PoP is run by Nikki Swoboda, “whose directorial credits include: “Virgin Territory,” which “tak[es] a hard look at the ‘ideals’ of virginity and how those are perceived in society”; and “Ball: A Musical Tribute to My Lost Testicle.”
PoP promotional material states that the project “illuminates current world events and broadens students’ attitudes toward tolerance, respect, understanding, and peace…” A promotional video for PoP that was linked to in an email sent to Highlands parents associates Black Lives Matter with “peace.”
At South View Middle School in Edina, older students are encouraged to get involved in something called Dare 2 Be Real. A presentation slide that begins with “Be The Change You Wish To See In The World! – Mahatma Gandhi” states [emphases in original]...
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Sunny San Diego Morning
Lovely.
At the San Diego Union-Tribune:
At the San Diego Union-Tribune:
While many toiled in the city some played on a sunny San Diego morning. pic.twitter.com/MrySmomBEz
— The Union-Tribune (@sdut) May 11, 2017
Xenia Deli Swimsuit on the Beach
At Drunken Stepfather, "SUGAR BABY XENIA DELI ON THE BEACH OF THE DAY."
BONUS: "Xenia Deli's Naked Beach Shoot from Last Year of the Day."
BONUS: "Xenia Deli's Naked Beach Shoot from Last Year of the Day."
What is Socialism?
Following-up from Tuesday, "Victims of Communism Day."
From the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an awesome video:
From the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an awesome video:
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Jackie Johnson's Cooler Temperatures Forecast
It'll be cooler Thursday and Friday, and then back up into the 70s for the weekend.
I'm not complaining. It's been mild.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, whose forecast I didn't get a chance to post last night, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
I'm not complaining. It's been mild.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, whose forecast I didn't get a chance to post last night, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Krauthammer on Comey Firing and Leftist Backlash: 'Democrats Are Hypocrites from the Day of Their Birth. It's in Their DNA' (VIDEO)
Watch, from today's "all-star panel" on Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier, "Trump defends firing Comey amid Democratic backlash."
Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2017
Joanna Krupa Smoldering Instagram Throwback
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Anthony Summers, The Arrogance of Power
A timely read, and excellent too.
From Anthony Summers, at Amazon, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.
From Anthony Summers, at Amazon, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.
Today's Deals
At Amazon.
Specifically, Poweradd Powerbanks Smart Charging Technology.
And, Save on the Hoover Carpet Cleaner SteamVac with Clean Surge.
More, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - Black.
Still more, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Here, Car Stereo, Car Video, Car Speakers & Subwoofers, Top Brands.
BONUS: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men.
Specifically, Poweradd Powerbanks Smart Charging Technology.
And, Save on the Hoover Carpet Cleaner SteamVac with Clean Surge.
More, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - Black.
Still more, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Here, Car Stereo, Car Video, Car Speakers & Subwoofers, Top Brands.
BONUS: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men.
Actor Antonio Sabato, Jr., to Run for Congress
The conservative television star was supposedly blackballed from Hollywood after campaigning for President Trump's election last year, at the GOP convention.
He's a stud, and a solid bedrock conservative family man.
We need more guys like him in Congress:
He's a stud, and a solid bedrock conservative family man.
We need more guys like him in Congress:
The former “Melrose Place” actor could be the next celebrity headed to Washington https://t.co/0Co7uQGKJ4
— New York Post (@nypost) May 9, 2017
Constitutional Crisis?
Following-up, from the hyper-dramatic Morning Joe segment (whatever sells airtime, I guess), here's Elizabeth Price Foley, at Politico:
It's a partisan witch-hunt.
Democrats are corrupt, evil, and un-American. It's been six month since the election. There's no evidence of Russian collusion or hacking of our democracy. It's a partisan scam.
Just duck beneath all the bullshit flying today.
Is This a Constitutional Crisis? No. Next question? https://t.co/ipddJ1k2lh @instapundit— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 10, 2017
'Trump made the only legally correct call'It's not a constitutional crisis.
Elizabeth Price Foley is a professor of law at Florida International University.
The FBI director, like all other officers of the executive branch, is an at will employee, which means he can be fired at any time, at the sole discretion of the president. When the deputy attorney general concluded that Director Comey usurped the role of the Department of Justice in his decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton, President Trump made the only legally correct call, to fire the director. The country deserves an FBI director who respects his limited role as an investigator, and whose reputation is not sullied by inappropriately political behavior. If there is any ongoing FBI investigation into any of Trump's associates, this investigation can and will continue unabated. This is far from a constitutional crisis--it is a confirmation that the Constitution is working exactly as it should.
It's a partisan witch-hunt.
Democrats are corrupt, evil, and un-American. It's been six month since the election. There's no evidence of Russian collusion or hacking of our democracy. It's a partisan scam.
Just duck beneath all the bullshit flying today.
Olivia Culpo
Lovely.
Beautiful Olivia Culpo steps out in white dress and satin trench in NYC: https://t.co/auAqVpimYV
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 10, 2017
Melania's First 100 Days
Now that's a First Lady!
All the low-key stuff Melania Trump has done in her first 100 days: https://t.co/pQpJDmQSv1 (Photo: AP) pic.twitter.com/HWXOhOn9cM
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 10, 2017
James Comey Headlines
It's not a "constitutional crisis." Democrats want to make it into one, but it's not.
Today you gotta just sit back and take cover while the partisan bilge flies.
Headlines:
Today you gotta just sit back and take cover while the partisan bilge flies.
Headlines:
Trump fires Comey as FBI director: A look at Wednesday's front page pic.twitter.com/6tvIdUxJpa
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 10, 2017
On today's #frontpage: @FBI director #Comey's ouster stuns #Washington; #Colleges vexed by rise in #MentalHealth needs pic.twitter.com/740AIPv7t3
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 10, 2017
The front page of The New York Times for Wednesday, May 10, 2017 pic.twitter.com/yPEiXwMXgl
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 10, 2017
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