The Long Beach Grand Prix's this weekend. Hey, if it's like today it should be perfect weather.
Here's the lovely Ms. Amber, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Friday, April 7, 2017
You Could Read 200 Books Per Year
If you cut down on your frivolous social media consumption. And that reminds me, I was going to keep count of my books read this year, but I forgot. Too busy reading, shopping, and blogging books, heh.
I don't know about this guy's numbers on the hours of book reading versus social media, but I think 200 books a year is easily doable, especially if one reads short books (and short for me is 200-300 pages, which I can finish in a couple of days).
At Quartz:
I don't know about this guy's numbers on the hours of book reading versus social media, but I think 200 books a year is easily doable, especially if one reads short books (and short for me is 200-300 pages, which I can finish in a couple of days).
At Quartz:
In the time you spend on social media each year, you could read 200 books https://t.co/ClGlaPiWr2
— Quartz (@qz) April 6, 2017
Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery
The further you get into the weeds of this literature, the more interesting are the rare finds.
This is amazing.
At Amazon, Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90.
This is amazing.
At Amazon, Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90.
Ray Allen Billington, Land of Savagery, Land of Promise
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Ray Allen Billington, Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century.
At Amazon, Ray Allen Billington, Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century.
PlayStation 3
At Amazon, PlayStation 3 500 GB System.
More, Music and Entertainment.
And, Mountain House Just In Case...Classic Assortment Bucket.
Here, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Plus, Samsung USB 3.0 Data Cable for Galaxy Note 3, 2 Pack - Non-Retail Packaging - White.
Still more, Samsung UN55KU6600 Curved 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2016 Model).
BONUS: Don Trent Jacobs, ed., Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America.
More, Music and Entertainment.
And, Mountain House Just In Case...Classic Assortment Bucket.
Here, KIND Breakfast Bars, Peanut Butter, Gluten Free, 1.8 Ounce, 32 Count.
Plus, Samsung USB 3.0 Data Cable for Galaxy Note 3, 2 Pack - Non-Retail Packaging - White.
Still more, Samsung UN55KU6600 Curved 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2016 Model).
BONUS: Don Trent Jacobs, ed., Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America.
Gorsuch Confirmed (VIDEO)
At USA Today, "Neil Gorsuch confirmed for Supreme Court."
And at Truth Revolt, "MUST WATCH: Sen. Cornyn Calls Out Hypocritical Dem Outrage of Filibuster Rules They Made Up — Forget 'Nuclear Option', it should be called the 'Harry Reid Option'."
Watch it at the link.
And at Truth Revolt, "MUST WATCH: Sen. Cornyn Calls Out Hypocritical Dem Outrage of Filibuster Rules They Made Up — Forget 'Nuclear Option', it should be called the 'Harry Reid Option'."
Watch it at the link.
Brooke Burke-Charvet Vacation in St. Barts (PHOTOS)
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Donald Trump 'Neocon Puppet'?
Heh.
I got a kick out of seeing Paul Joseph Watson blow a gasket last night:
And then all kinds of reports today about the "alt-right" meltdown at the administration's Syria strike.
At the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, and the New York Times, among others, I'm sure:
They're paleocons. The "alt-right" are basically "paleocons" opposed to a forward U.S. foreign and national security policy. I'm not a paleocon, lol.
I got a kick out of seeing Paul Joseph Watson blow a gasket last night:
I guess Trump wasn't "Putin's puppet" after all, he was just another deep state/Neo-Con puppet.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 7, 2017
I'm officially OFF the Trump train.
And then all kinds of reports today about the "alt-right" meltdown at the administration's Syria strike.
At the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, and the New York Times, among others, I'm sure:
“What Trump did was nothing less than a betrayal" https://t.co/gQWa3dA3om
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) April 7, 2017
Alt-right turns on "neo-con puppet" Trump after bombing Syria https://t.co/FhhfcUJQUC pic.twitter.com/OHzmtjwFd3
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 7, 2017
"I'm officially OFF the Trump train." Trump's far-right supporters turn on him after the Syria missile strike. https://t.co/CRIDWz4PgB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 7, 2017
They're paleocons. The "alt-right" are basically "paleocons" opposed to a forward U.S. foreign and national security policy. I'm not a paleocon, lol.
Israel and Obama's Political war
From Caroline Glick:
Eli Lake from Bloomberg set off a firestorm in the US this week with his revelation on Monday that in the last six months of the Obama administration, Susan Rice, former president Barack Obama’s national security adviser, requested that the US intelligence community enable her to use foreign intelligence collection as a means of gathering information about Donald Trump’s advisers.Still more.
According to Lake’s story, during the course of the US presidential campaign, and with steadily rising intensity after President Donald Trump won the November 2016 election, Rice used her access to intercepted communications of foreign intelligence targets to gather information on Trump’s advisers. Some of those reports were then leaked, injuriously, to the media in violation of US criminal statute.
Whereas in the normal course of events, the identities of American citizens whose conversations with foreigners are intercepted by the US intelligence community are shielded, in the final months of the Obama administration, Rice repeatedly – on “dozens of occasions” – asked that the identities of Americans who conversed with foreigners be exposed.
The Americans in question were Trump’s advisers.
Lake’s scoop both confirmed and expanded House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’s charges from two weeks ago against the Obama White House. Nunes said that he had seen evidence that the Obama administration collected information on incoming Trump administration officials that had no intelligence value. In other words, Nunes alleged that the data gathering was not for national security purposes.
This week’s discovery that Rice played a central role in the intelligence collection regarding Trump’s advisers brings Nunes’s allegations that the outgoing Obama administration conducted surveillance of the Trump team to the highest reaches of the administration. Now that Rice has been exposed, it is impossible to claim that in the event such surveillance occurred, it did not reflect the Obama administration’s concerted policy.
With the exceptions of Obama and his top adviser and confidante Valerie Jarrett, Rice was the top official in the White House.
Lake’s story and subsequent stories have obvious implications for the public’s assessment of Trump’s March 4 allegation on Twitter that Obama spied on him. But the Rice story is equally, if not more, important for what it teaches us about Obama’s mode of governing.
The Rice story strengthens the assessment that for eight years, Obama and his associates weaponized the federal government to wage a political war against their domestic political opponents in a manner that is simply unprecedented...
Thursday, April 6, 2017
How a Queer Dance Party in Front of Ivanka Trump's House Made a Wine-Sipping Woman an Internet Star
From Debra Heine, at Pajamas.
Je Suis Ivanka's Petty Neighbor pic.twitter.com/u3ymnvW31F
— Mitchell Sunderland (@mitchsunderland) April 3, 2017
Miltary Strike Against Syria (VIDEO)
Following-up, "U.S. Launches Tomahawk Missile Strike After Syria Chemical Weapons Attack (VIDEO)."
I was watching "The Exorcist" and flipped over to CBS when it was done. I tripped out at the headline of the military strike against Syria. It all happened so fast, literally within 24 hours from President Trump's comments about "crossing so many lines" yesterday.
Watch:
I was watching "The Exorcist" and flipped over to CBS when it was done. I tripped out at the headline of the military strike against Syria. It all happened so fast, literally within 24 hours from President Trump's comments about "crossing so many lines" yesterday.
Watch:
James J. Rawls, Indians of California
I thought I'd post this one before I started in on all the radical leftist "genocide" tomes.
This looks very good and balanced. I'm ordering a copy.
At Amazon, James J. Rawls, Indians of California: The Changing Image.
This looks very good and balanced. I'm ordering a copy.
At Amazon, James J. Rawls, Indians of California: The Changing Image.
U.S. Launches Tomahawk Missile Strike After Syria Chemical Weapons Attack (VIDEO)
Oh boy.
That's a pretty quick turnaround from yesterday's comments about "crossing so many lines."
I like it. This president shows resolve and dispatch. It was literally a surprise attack. Members of Trump's own administration didn't even know beforehand. And striking so quickly sends all kinds of messages, to Assad and Kim Jong Un, as well as Vladmir Putin and Xi Jinping. A new sheriff's in town. The U.S. will not hesitate to act when "vital interests" are at stake, as President Trump made clear in his comment today in the strike.
In any case, at the Guardian U.K., "US strikes Syrian airfield in first direct military action against Assad: Dozens of Tomahawk missiles have been launched at a government airfield in the wake of the Syrian leader’s use of chemical weapons against civilians."
And at USA Today, "U.S. launches cruise missile strike on Syria after chemical weapons attack":
That's a pretty quick turnaround from yesterday's comments about "crossing so many lines."
I like it. This president shows resolve and dispatch. It was literally a surprise attack. Members of Trump's own administration didn't even know beforehand. And striking so quickly sends all kinds of messages, to Assad and Kim Jong Un, as well as Vladmir Putin and Xi Jinping. A new sheriff's in town. The U.S. will not hesitate to act when "vital interests" are at stake, as President Trump made clear in his comment today in the strike.
In any case, at the Guardian U.K., "US strikes Syrian airfield in first direct military action against Assad: Dozens of Tomahawk missiles have been launched at a government airfield in the wake of the Syrian leader’s use of chemical weapons against civilians."
And at USA Today, "U.S. launches cruise missile strike on Syria after chemical weapons attack":
WASHINGTON — "No child of God should ever suffer" the horror of the chemical weapons attack Syria launched on its own people, President Trump said Thursday, as he announced a cruise missile strike against Syria.More.
Trump ordered the strike against Syria early Friday local time in retaliation for the chemical weapons attack that killed 86 people on Tuesday, he said.
The attack, the first conventional assault on another country ordered by Trump, comes a day after he declared that the chemical weapons assault had “crossed many, many lines,” including the deaths of 27 children.
From his resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Trump said Syrian President Bashar Assad "launched a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered at this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.
"Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the Untied States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons," Trump said.
Years of previous attempts to change Assad's behavior had failed, Trump said.
The 59 missiles, fired from the destroyers USS Porter and Ross in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, struck the airfield where the Syria based the warplanes used in the chemical attack, according to Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. The missiles destroyed aircraft, hardened hangars, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems and radar at the Shayrat Airfield.
The chemicals used in the attack on April 4 were also stored at the base, Davis said. The missile strike was designed to deter Syria from mounting another chemical attack...
Devin Nunes Still a Hero in California's Central Valley
GOP Rep. Devin Nunes will step down from the House Russia investigation, but he's still a hero in the Central Valley.
At LAT, "Washington may be shaking its head, but Devin Nunes is still a hometown hero":
At LAT, "Washington may be shaking its head, but Devin Nunes is still a hometown hero":
Devin Nunes takes himself out of Russia investigation, at least temporarily. A look at his two worlds: https://t.co/tJKGYsOFj7
— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) April 6, 2017
At home, Devin Nunes remains what he has always been, an auspiciously successful man who rose swiftly to unexpected heights, a man high school teachers point to when they tell kids in this often-overlooked place what is possible in this world.More.
Outside the farming community southeast of Fresno that has sustained him and his family for generations, though, many see the 14-year Republican congressman very differently — as a national symbol of political bungling or worse.
The House investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, which he heads, has stalemated. A senator from his party has acidly compared him to Inspector Clouseau, the bumbling French detective from the “Pink Panther” movies. Democratic leaders have accused him of working with the White House to divert attention from the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to derail Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. In much of official Washington, the mention of Nunes’ name prompts dismissive shakes of the head.
The two views of Nunes are impossible to reconcile, not that many in his district are trying to. In a region where troubles often take the form of drought or pestilence, his longtime constituents greet Nunes’ difficulties with a shrug, their faith in him undiminished...
Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War
This is the one to read for understanding the origins of World War One.
At Amazon, Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War.
At Amazon, Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War.
Justus D. Doenecke, Nothing Less Than War
Well, this one is timely, considering.
At Amazon, Justus D. Doenecke, Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I.
At Amazon, Justus D. Doenecke, Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I.
One Hundred Years Ago Today: U.S. Entered World War I
There's some argument that the U.S. should have stayed out of WWI, perhaps to the effect that if we stayed home, the rest of the 20th century would have turned out differently (and better).
Frankly, looked at in balance-of-power terms, it was sooner or later. We went to Europe in 1917, but counterfactually, had the Western Allies failed to stop Imperial Germany in 1919, it was just a matter of time. Indeed, the rise of German power made U.S. intervention on the European continent inevitable, and with it the rise of U.S. hegemonic status.
On Twitter:
Frankly, looked at in balance-of-power terms, it was sooner or later. We went to Europe in 1917, but counterfactually, had the Western Allies failed to stop Imperial Germany in 1919, it was just a matter of time. Indeed, the rise of German power made U.S. intervention on the European continent inevitable, and with it the rise of U.S. hegemonic status.
On Twitter:
The first world war helped shape modern America. Why is it so forgotten? https://t.co/ThfuJB4xwT— The Guardian (@guardian) April 6, 2017
— WW1 Centennial (@WW1CC) April 6, 2017
The 100th anniversary of U.S. involvement in WWI will be officially commemorated in Kansas City, Mo. #WorldWarOne https://t.co/soBsoavR8V pic.twitter.com/XsFd9Rh7qn— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 6, 2017
Advertisements for Pamela Geller's AFDI Banned by San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (VIDEO)
At Pamela's, "VIDEO: Pamela Geller on ABC News: San Francisco BANS Free Speech on Buses, Subways."
And at Truth Revolt, "San Francisco Bans Political Ads on Transit After Conservative Group Submits Pro-Trump Ad."
And watch here, on YouTube, "Pamela Geller on ABC News."
And at Truth Revolt, "San Francisco Bans Political Ads on Transit After Conservative Group Submits Pro-Trump Ad."
And watch here, on YouTube, "Pamela Geller on ABC News."
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