At Sports Illustrated Swimsuit:
Thursday, August 24, 2017
'Fifty Shades' Star Dakota Johnson Photos Leaked
Here's Gossip Cop, "Dakota Johnson Nude Photos Hacked, Leak Online," and the hilarious concluding paragraph:
Drunken Stepfather has some, "DAKOTA JOHNSON SHAVING HER FRIENDS LEG INSTAGRAM ARTIST SHOOT OF THE DAY."
And at the Fappening, "Dakota Johnson Leaked (21 Photos)."
Of course, Gossip Cop will not publish any of the photos, nor will we mention the names of the sites that have posted the illegally obtained pictures. We hope other outlets will also not direct visitors to these stolen images.Oh, right, you freakin' virtuous paragons of slut-shaming gossip porn sites you.
Drunken Stepfather has some, "DAKOTA JOHNSON SHAVING HER FRIENDS LEG INSTAGRAM ARTIST SHOOT OF THE DAY."
And at the Fappening, "Dakota Johnson Leaked (21 Photos)."
Leftist Tech Companies Rely on Discredited SPLC to Demonetize Conservative Critics of Islam (VIDEO)
You know, it's not a lot of money, but my Amazon affiliates blogging has been keeping me interested and returning to the blog day after day. Frankly, the books and intellectual stimulation have been the fun for me this summer. Political blogging has been so-so, and I'd probably be doing a lot less of it if my side gig with the Amazon books were to go away.
I'd been thinking about how compared to Google (AdSense, etc.), Amazon's been pretty hands off. I appreciate it and I think that approach deserves respect and promotion. But now I come to find out that even Amazon's been in on the "demonetizing" attacks against un-PC views. That bums me out. Not because I'm going to lose my side business. But because I was naive to think that the Bezos people were holding themselves to a higher standard, staying above the fray of hateful leftist politics. Boy, not so much it turns out.
Check this mind-boggling story of complete media lack of self-awareness, at ProPublica. Really, these people, and I'm talking now about the journalists writing the story, think they're doing something noble and just when in fact what they're doing is ignorant and evil.
Here's another reason why I hate politics right now.
See, at the safe link, "Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate":
(And recall the SPLC has been so widely discredited, even on the left, that's it's beyond logic that these idiots at ProPublica would be so reliant on it.)
And from earlier, "Pamela Geller Banned (Then Restored) by PayPal."
Finally, here's Robert Spencer on Tucker's show the other night:
I'd been thinking about how compared to Google (AdSense, etc.), Amazon's been pretty hands off. I appreciate it and I think that approach deserves respect and promotion. But now I come to find out that even Amazon's been in on the "demonetizing" attacks against un-PC views. That bums me out. Not because I'm going to lose my side business. But because I was naive to think that the Bezos people were holding themselves to a higher standard, staying above the fray of hateful leftist politics. Boy, not so much it turns out.
Check this mind-boggling story of complete media lack of self-awareness, at ProPublica. Really, these people, and I'm talking now about the journalists writing the story, think they're doing something noble and just when in fact what they're doing is ignorant and evil.
Here's another reason why I hate politics right now.
See, at the safe link, "Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate":
Most tech companies have policies against working with hate websites. Yet a ProPublica survey found that PayPal, Stripe, Newsmax and others help keep more than half of the most-visited extremist sites in business.Still more (FWIW).
Because of its “extreme hostility toward Muslims,” the website Jihadwatch.org is considered an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The views of the site’s director, Robert Spencer, on Islam led the British Home Office to ban him from entering the country in 2013.
But its designation as a hate site hasn’t stopped tech companies — including PayPal, Amazon and Newsmax — from maintaining partnerships with Jihad Watch that help to sustain it financially. PayPal facilitates donations to the site. Newsmax — the online news network run by President Donald Trump’s close friend Chris Ruddy — pays Jihad Watch in return for users clicking on its headlines. Until recently, Amazon allowed Jihad Watch to participate in a program that promised a cut of any book sales that the site generated. All three companies have policies that say they don’t do business with hate groups.
Jihad Watch is one of many sites that monetize their extremist views through relationships with technology companies. ProPublica surveyed the most visited websites of groups designated as extremist by either the SPLC or the Anti-Defamation League. We found that more than half of them — 39 out of 69 — made money from ads, donations or other revenue streams facilitated by technology companies. At least 10 tech companies played a role directly or indirectly in supporting these sites.
Traditionally, tech companies have justified such relationships by contending that it’s not their role to censor the Internet or to discourage legitimate political expression. Also, their management wasn’t necessarily aware that they were doing business with hate sites because tech services tend to be automated and based on algorithms tied to demographics.
In the wake of last week’s violent protest by alt-right groups in Charlottesville, more tech companies have disavowed relationships with extremist groups. During just the last week, six of the sites on our list were shut down. Even the web services company Cloudflare, which had long defended its laissez-faire approach to political expression, finally ended its relationship with the neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer last week.
“I can’t recall a time where the tech industry was so in step in their response to hate on their platforms,” said Oren Segal, director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism. “Stopping financial support to hate sites seems like a win-win for everyone.”
But ProPublica’s findings indicate that some tech companies with anti-hate policies may have failed to establish the monitoring processes needed to weed out hate sites. PayPal, the payment processor, has a policy against working with sites that use its service for “the promotion of hate, violence, [or] racial intolerance.” Yet it was by far the top tech provider to the hate sites with donation links on 23 sites, or about one-third of those surveyed by ProPublica. In response to ProPublica’s inquiries, PayPal spokesman Justin Higgs said in a statement that the company “strives to conscientiously assess activity and review accounts reported to us.”
After Charlottesville, PayPal stopped accepting payments or donations for several high-profile white nationalist groups that participated in the march. It posted a statement that it would remain “vigilant on hate, violence & intolerance.” It addresses each case individually, and “strives to navigate the balance between freedom of expression” and the “limiting and closing” of hate sites, it said.
After being contacted by ProPublica, Newsmax said it was unaware that the three sites that it had relationships with were considered hateful. “We will review the content of these sites and make any necessary changes after that review,” said Andy Brown, chief operating officer of Newsmax.
Amazon spokeswoman Angie Newman said the company had previously removed Jihad Watch and three other sites identified by ProPublica from its program sharing revenue for book sales, which is called Amazon Associates. When ProPublica pointed out that the sites still carried working links to the program, she said that it was their responsibility to remove the code. “They are no longer paid as an Associate regardless of what links are on their site once we remove them from the Associates Program,” she said...
(And recall the SPLC has been so widely discredited, even on the left, that's it's beyond logic that these idiots at ProPublica would be so reliant on it.)
And from earlier, "Pamela Geller Banned (Then Restored) by PayPal."
Finally, here's Robert Spencer on Tucker's show the other night:
Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII - With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers: A Novel.
At Amazon, Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII - With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers: A Novel.
Violent Leftist Who Attacked Richard Maxwell at Laguna Beach Rally Tried to Flee the State
Following-up from last night, "Black Conservative Richard Maxwell 'Sucker Punched' for Supporting President Trump (VIDEO)."
The L.A. Times picked up on this story, so I'll give them that.
See, "Counter-protester who allegedly 'sucker-punched' Trump supporter at O.C. rally tried to flee state, police say."
The L.A. Times picked up on this story, so I'll give them that.
See, "Counter-protester who allegedly 'sucker-punched' Trump supporter at O.C. rally tried to flee state, police say."
Safe Spaces and 'Ze' Badges at College (What a Total Nightmare)
From Maddy Kearns, at the Spectator U.K., "Safe spaces and ‘ze’ badges: My bewildering year at a U.S. university: Fear of causing offence on campus is stifling free thought – as I’ve found to my cost" (cached):
And welcome to my world, Ms. Maddy, my leftist campus nightmare. (I'm going back to my campus nightmare tomorrow, with our school's "College Days" return orientation and department meetings, oh joy.)
This week's cover: Campus tyranny pic.twitter.com/K9nsg8Ofbb
— The Spectator (@spectator) August 23, 2017
As a child in Glasgow, I learned that sticks and stones might break my bones but words didn’t really hurt. I’m now at New York University studying journalism, where a different mantra seems to apply. Words, it turns out, might cause life-ruining emotional trauma.Still more.
During my ‘Welcome Week’, for example, I was presented with a choice of badges indicating my preferred gender pronouns: ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘they’ or ‘ze’?
The student in front of me, an Australian, found this hilarious: ‘Last time I checked, I was a girl.’ Her joke was met with stony silence. Later I realised why: expressing bewilderment at the obsession with pronouns might count as a ‘micro-aggression’. Next stop, ‘transphobia’.
It was soon obvious to my fellow students that I was not quite with the programme. In a class discussion early in my first semester, I made the mistake of mentioning that I believed in objective standards in art. Some art is great, some isn’t, I said; not all artists are equally talented. This was deemed an undemocratic opinion and I was given a nickname: the cultural fascist. I’ve tried to take it affectionately.
After a year on campus, on a course entitled ‘Cultural Reporting and Criticism’, I still feel unable to speak freely, let alone critically. Although it doesn’t apply to my own course, friends have told me about ‘trigger warnings’ that caution they are about to be exposed to certain ideas; the threat of micro-aggressions (i.e. unintended insults) makes frank discourse impossible. Then there is the infamous ‘safe space’ — a massage-circle, Play-Doh-making haven — where students are protected from offence (and, therefore, intellectual challenge).
During class discussions, I’ve learned to discreetly scan my classmates’ faces for signs that they might be fellow free-thinkers. A slight head tilt at the mention of Islamophobia, a gentle questioning of what exactly is meant by ‘toxic masculinity’. I was thrilled to see a scribbled note — ‘This is utter shit’ — on someone’s copy of one of the reading requirements, Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts (an introduction to queer theory). In this way, I found the members of my secret non-conformist book club.
We met in a disused convent in Hell’s Kitchen and discussed campus-censored ideas. We read Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe, Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus and Walter Benn Michaels’s The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality. We were a diverse group: a Catholic woman, a black conservative man, an anti-theist neoconservative, a Protestant libertarian, and a quick-witted Spanish contrarian. We were united in agreeing that we should be free to disagree. We made our own unsafe space, and at the end of each meeting, we were invigorated and parted on good terms.
It seemed to the members of my book club that academia is losing its way. It is riddled with paradox: safe spaces which are dangerously insular; the idea of ‘no absolutes’ (as an absolute); aggressive intolerance for anything perceived as intolerant; and censorship of ideas deemed too offensive for expression. It’s a form of totalitarianism and it’s beginning to infect British universities, too.
The morning after the US election, New York was bluer than ever. My classmates were in tears, including one professor. Protesters chanting ‘Not my President’ took to the streets as cries of ‘How did this happen?’ ‘What will we tell our children?’ and ‘What a terrible day for [insert identity group]!’ echoed down NYU’s hallways.
Two weeks later, I spent a slightly surreal Thanksgiving with my friend’s family in the DC area. My friend’s father is the former Republican senator and twice presidential candidate Rick Santorum. As I stuffed my face with turkey, I couldn’t believe my luck. Santorum’s insights into the new administration were as close to an insider’s scoop as any student journalist could hope for.
I was sure that, despite their differences in outlook, my classmates would be fascinated to hear about what he had to say. But before I had mustered the courage to share my experience, I received the following email from a professor: ‘Dear all, hope you are all recovering well from any encounters with Trump-supporting relatives over Thanksgiving. I should be all right myself in a day or so.’ Naturally, when this professor asked me, ‘How was your first Thanksgiving?’ I chose to speak exclusively about marshmallow yams.
This is daft, certainly. Even funny, in a macabre way. But it also raises a serious point: the university experience in America is now not one that will adequately prepare students for real life. In real-life democracy, people disagree — and normally they don’t die or suffer emotional injury because of it. In normal life, there’s no reason not to like someone with whom you disagree politically. On campus, opinions are often ontology: you are what you think. But this is dangerous logic: if I hate what you think, I must hate what you are...
And welcome to my world, Ms. Maddy, my leftist campus nightmare. (I'm going back to my campus nightmare tomorrow, with our school's "College Days" return orientation and department meetings, oh joy.)
Peaceful Confederate Guy Has to Be Escorted Away by Police to Literally Save His Life After Angry Leftist Sticks Two Middle-Fingers in His Face for Half-an-Hour. Who's the Villain?
Of course, the Confederate guy's the villain. But he's actually the way more sympathetic figure here. Seriously. Unless you're a race-obsessed leftist MSM "journalist." Then the angry profane leftist bitch sticking the finger in the guy's face for 30 minutes non-stop is the hero.
We are seriously f*cked up in this country. Just wow.
At WaPo, "He wore Confederate dress to Charlottesville. He got two middle fingers and possible expulsion from college."
It's not "possible expulsion." He got to boot from his so-called "Christian" college. Peaceful protester standing up for his ancestors' heritage. Said his stand wasn't about race at all. And look what happened to him.
We are seriously f*cked up in this country. Just wow.
At WaPo, "He wore Confederate dress to Charlottesville. He got two middle fingers and possible expulsion from college."
It's not "possible expulsion." He got to boot from his so-called "Christian" college. Peaceful protester standing up for his ancestors' heritage. Said his stand wasn't about race at all. And look what happened to him.
If any city is tearing down statues of racists, might I suggest you use this figure study for erecting their replacements? pic.twitter.com/Ddp4n4TdfU— (((David Lytle))) (@davitydave) August 19, 2017
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Danielle Gersh's Increasing Temperatures Forecast
Tomorrow's my last full day of summer down time. I have "College Days" at LBCC on Friday, and then the new semester starts Monday.
Well, it's been nice, heh.
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Well, it's been nice, heh.
Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
At Amazon, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
Black Conservative Richard Maxwell 'Sucker Punched' for Supporting President Trump (VIDEO)
This should be on #FakeNews CNN.
Maxwell is black, so no. Doesn't fit the narrative.
At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Maxwell is black, so no. Doesn't fit the narrative.
At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
ICYMI: Omar El Akkad, American War
I personally feel like we're in a civil war.
And the conditions are so ripe for hot war, not a cold war of cultural enemies.
It's worth posting this once again.
At Amazon, Omar El Akkad, American War.
And the conditions are so ripe for hot war, not a cold war of cultural enemies.
It's worth posting this once again.
At Amazon, Omar El Akkad, American War.
Trump Supporters in Their Own Words
Melissa McEwan is not pleased:
But see the Guardian, "'He's anti-left, anti-PC, anti-stupid': Trump supporters in their own words."
Enough already. These people made a terrible, destructive, dangerous decision in voting for Donald Trump. And now the media wants to continually give them a platform to talk about that decision, as if they might have made it out of ignorance about who Trump is (nope!) or as if there is some value to letting them speak endlessly about their choice to cast a vote for a corrupt, bigoted, serial sex predator (also nope!) or as if there is something to be gleaned from mining the thoughts of people who insistently support an authoritarian bully who they have convinced themselves doesn't hold them in utter contempt (a third time nope).She blocked me on Twitter years ago, of course.
There is no value in any of it. Enough.
But see the Guardian, "'He's anti-left, anti-PC, anti-stupid': Trump supporters in their own words."
CNN's Ana Navaro Angrily Defends Tweet Claiming President Trump Has Dementia (VIDEO)
Click through to watch, at Free Beacon, "Ana Navaro Angrily Defends Tweet Suggesting Trump Has Dementia: ‘I Didn’t Say He Has It’."
Actually, she tweeted that "he has it":
Actually, she tweeted that "he has it":
Only possible defensible explanation for Trump's disgusting, unpresidential, narcissistic behavior, would be early-on-set dementia. Maybe.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) August 23, 2017
Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman
This one's the second entry in Cornwell's the Saxon Chronicles Series.
I found one of the books while out shopping last week. Interestingly, Barnes and Noble doesn't carry the series indoors. You have to order online.
I'll build up my collection this fall. I've got a lot of other things to read right now, but this is great!
At Amazon, Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2).
I found one of the books while out shopping last week. Interestingly, Barnes and Noble doesn't carry the series indoors. You have to order online.
I'll build up my collection this fall. I've got a lot of other things to read right now, but this is great!
At Amazon, Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2).
Olivia Culpo Bikini Pics
At Popaholic, "Olivia Culpo Knocks It Out of the Park With Her Jaw-Dropping Bikini Sexiness."
She's really hot. Maybe I should be posting Ms. Olivia more often, lol.
On Twitter:
She's really hot. Maybe I should be posting Ms. Olivia more often, lol.
On Twitter:
Rhode Island girl pic.twitter.com/iA2Z0tZIVo
— Olivia Culpo (@oliviaculpo) July 27, 2017
It's coming... #PLTxOliviaCulpo 😍🌹🔥🔥 @oliviaculpo pic.twitter.com/lXrKc765at
— PrettyLittleThing (@OfficialPLT) August 15, 2017
Cherry stained lip 🍒 pic.twitter.com/z2cDruZ8Eh
— Olivia Culpo (@oliviaculpo) August 17, 2017
— Olivia Culpo (@oliviaculpo) August 20, 2017
Damn..... pizza pic.twitter.com/4mUHvJRCmW
— Olivia Culpo (@oliviaculpo) August 20, 2017
Lucy Collett on Snapchat
I'm not on Snapchat.
Shoot, I'm not on Instagram or any of these other ultra hip platforms.
That's probably for the better, lol. Society's getting too dumbed down as it is.
In any case, I guess Snapchat permits nudity (whereas not so at Instagram).
At Taxi Driver, "Lucy Collett Topless on her Snap Chat."
She goes by "Lucy Vixen" nowadays apparently, and she's on Twitter as well.
Shoot, I'm not on Instagram or any of these other ultra hip platforms.
That's probably for the better, lol. Society's getting too dumbed down as it is.
In any case, I guess Snapchat permits nudity (whereas not so at Instagram).
At Taxi Driver, "Lucy Collett Topless on her Snap Chat."
She goes by "Lucy Vixen" nowadays apparently, and she's on Twitter as well.
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