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Monday, July 9, 2018
Rita Ora Relaxes in a Bikini by the Pool in France
At Just Jared:
Also, at Drunken Stepfather, "RITA ORA STILL IN A BIKINI OF THE DAY."
She's a fabulous lady.
Rita Ora relaxed in a bikini by the pool in France on a break from her European tour https://t.co/6qFhFU07yt— JustJared.com (@JustJared) July 5, 2018
Also, at Drunken Stepfather, "RITA ORA STILL IN A BIKINI OF THE DAY."
She's a fabulous lady.
Jennifer Delacruz's Heat and Thunderstorms Forecast
It's not nearly as bad as Friday, when we had the power outage, although it did rain in the inland areas over the weekend. Look for a combination of heat and rain today and through Tuesday.
Here's the fabulous Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Here's the fabulous Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
The Rebirth of Socialism in American Politics
It's not so much as a "rebirth" as an acknowledgment of reality. Democrats are far-left Marixist ideologues. It's just now that they're not afraid to come out that way publically.
At the Washington Monthly, "The Socialist Network: Are today’s young, Bernie-inspired leftist intellectuals really just New Deal liberals?":
This is all a scam, of course. Leftists won't define "socialism" because they know the American public will reject it. Real socialism calls for the natioanlization of industry, if not the public ownership of all means of production (think the Soviet Union). It calls for the elimination of capitalist oppression and the eradication of inequality. Most of all, socialism calls for solidarity with the world's workers, anywhere on earth, and thus the eradication of borders and national sovereignty.
And if genuine ideological socialism were practiced, it would then see the so-called withering away of the state and the advance to "full communism."
This is textbook socialism and any leftist that tells you differently is lying.
Via Memorandum.
At the Washington Monthly, "The Socialist Network: Are today’s young, Bernie-inspired leftist intellectuals really just New Deal liberals?":
It’s Time to Give Socialism a Try.” So declared the headline of a Washington Post column in March; one imagines Katharine Graham spitting out her martini. The article, by a twenty-seven-year-old columnist named Elizabeth Bruenig, drew more than 3,000 comments (a typical column gets a few hundred); a follow-up piece, urging a “good-faith argument about socialism,” received nearly as much attention.Keep reading.
By now, the rebirth of socialism in American politics needs little elaboration. Bernie Sanders’s surprisingly strong showing in the 2016 Democratic primary, and his continued popularity, upset just about everyone’s intuition that the term remains taboo. Donald Trump’s victory, meanwhile, made all political truisms seem up for grabs. Polls show that young people in particular view socialism more favorably than they do capitalism. Membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, which has been around since 1982, has grown from about 5,000 to 35,000 since November 2016, and dozens of DSA candidates are running for office around the country. In June, one of them, twenty-eight-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, upset New York City Congressman Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary, knocking off a ten-term incumbent and one of the most powerful Democrats in the House.
The meaning of socialism has always been maddeningly slippery, in part because it has always meant different things to different people. Michael Harrington, one of the founders of the DSA and the most outspoken American socialist of the postwar era, writes on the first page of his 1989 book, Socialism: Past and Future, that socialism is “the hope for human freedom and justice.” By the end of the book, the definition hasn’t gotten much more concrete. Karl Marx himself spent more time critiquing capitalism than describing communism, a habit that subsequent generations of leftists inherited. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said of pornography that, while he couldn’t define it, “I know it when I see it.” Socialism sometimes feels like the inverse: socialists know it when they don’t see it. Bernie has only made things murkier by defining his brand of socialism in terms hardly indistinguishable from New Deal liberalism. “I don’t believe the government should own the corner drugstore or the means of production,” he declared in the fall of 2015, at a speech at Georgetown University, “but I do believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.” But while the meaning of American socialism in 2018 begins with Bernie, it doesn’t end there. Every political movement needs an intellectual movement, and when it comes to today’s brand of socialism, it’s the thirty-five-and-under crowd doing much of the heavy lifting...
This is all a scam, of course. Leftists won't define "socialism" because they know the American public will reject it. Real socialism calls for the natioanlization of industry, if not the public ownership of all means of production (think the Soviet Union). It calls for the elimination of capitalist oppression and the eradication of inequality. Most of all, socialism calls for solidarity with the world's workers, anywhere on earth, and thus the eradication of borders and national sovereignty.
And if genuine ideological socialism were practiced, it would then see the so-called withering away of the state and the advance to "full communism."
This is textbook socialism and any leftist that tells you differently is lying.
Via Memorandum.
Boris Johnson Quits
This is interesting.
At the Guardian U.K., "Boris Johnson resigns as foreign secretary over May's Brexit plans: Senior Conservative becomes third minister to walk out over ‘common rule book’ proposal."
Also, "Power, not Brexit, is behind Boris Johnson’s decision to quit." Sounds about right: Perhaps old Boris is looking to trigger a vote of confidence on P.M. Theresa May." More on that, "Theresa May would fight any no-confidence vote, says No 10 – politics live."
At the Guardian U.K., "Boris Johnson resigns as foreign secretary over May's Brexit plans: Senior Conservative becomes third minister to walk out over ‘common rule book’ proposal."
Also, "Power, not Brexit, is behind Boris Johnson’s decision to quit." Sounds about right: Perhaps old Boris is looking to trigger a vote of confidence on P.M. Theresa May." More on that, "Theresa May would fight any no-confidence vote, says No 10 – politics live."
Anticipation Ahead of Trump's Supreme Court Nomination Tonight
Ann Althouse posts on NPR's big piece on tonight's announcement, which I happened to tweet a little while ago:
Announcement is scheduled for tonight at 6:00pm PST. #ScotusPick 🤗 https://t.co/h6WUdHlG6O
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 9, 2018
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Holiday Fire in Goleta (VIDEO)
Via KSBY News 6 San Luis Obispo:
Also, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Fast-Moving Brush Fire Rips Through 20-Plus Buildings In Goleta; Thousands Evacuated."
ADDED: At LAT, "'I had no idea the flames could go that fast': Goleta devastated by fire as record heat burns path of destruction."
Also, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Fast-Moving Brush Fire Rips Through 20-Plus Buildings In Goleta; Thousands Evacuated."
ADDED: At LAT, "'I had no idea the flames could go that fast': Goleta devastated by fire as record heat burns path of destruction."
Georgie Clarke in White Lace Bodysuit
At Taxi Driver, "Georgie Clarke in White Lace Bodysuit."
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Evelyn Taft's Heatwave Forecast
It's a hellish heatwave.
Our electrical power went out around 6:00pm last night, at the peak of the afternoon heat, around 109 degrees. We walked across the street from out apartment complex to 7/11, and the local Korean barbecue had a sign posted: "Power Outage: Currently Closed." PG&E was able to get the power back on within a couple of hours, thank goodness. It would have been unbearable overnight with no cooling.
In any case, let's hope it's not so hot today.
Here's the lovely Ms. Eveyln from last night, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Our electrical power went out around 6:00pm last night, at the peak of the afternoon heat, around 109 degrees. We walked across the street from out apartment complex to 7/11, and the local Korean barbecue had a sign posted: "Power Outage: Currently Closed." PG&E was able to get the power back on within a couple of hours, thank goodness. It would have been unbearable overnight with no cooling.
In any case, let's hope it's not so hot today.
Here's the lovely Ms. Eveyln from last night, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Friday, July 6, 2018
Feminism, 'Intersectionality', and Violence Against Women
From Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain, "Murder, Lies and Feminism":
The word “mansplaining” was inspired (although not coined) by Rebecca Solnit, whose book Men Explain Things to Me became a bestseller. In this book, Ms. Solnit writes: “So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over a thousand homicides of that kind a year — meaning that every three years the death toll tops 9/11’s casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular kind of terror.”Keep reading.
Here we have an actual fact — that the U.S. annually records “well over a thousand homicides” in which women are killed by their male partners or ex-partners — supporting a dishonest insinuation, i.e., that “this particular kind of terror” is a pervasive reality of American life, a widespread form of oppression which our sexist society ignores.
It should not be necessary to say this: Murder is a rare crime, for which our criminal justice system metes out the harshest punishments.
Furthermore, criminal violence — including murder, including rape, including every species of crime against women — is disproportionately a phenomenon of the social and economic underclass.
This is not something that feminists like Ms. Solnit wish to acknowledge, because their political allegiance to the Left requires them to believe that members of the underclass (especially those who are black and Hispanic) are victims of systemic social injustice. After the Ferguson riots of 2014, for example, every feminist began hashtagging #BlackLivesMatter as a gesture of solidarity against allegedly racist police. It is asserted by feminists that the “intersectionality” of oppression in American society is such that women and radial minorities are both victimized by systemic injustice, thus uniting them in a common cause — the struggle against “capitalist imperialist white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy,” in the words of Vanessa Diaz, former executive director of the University of Southern California Women’s Student Assembly.
Feminism’s devotion to an “intersectional” concept of oppression serves to obscure the messy reality of American life, which does not conform to such tidy ideological categories. Blaming all social problems on systemic causes (capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, etc.) is a way of denying individual responsibility for wrongdoing, while suggesting that every problem is political and can be solved by left-wing policies...
Thursday, July 5, 2018
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The Democratic Party Is Killing Itself
Well, one hopes so.
At American Greatness:
At American Greatness:
"As the Democrats’ political rhetoric and policy proposals have become more explicitly anti-white and socialistic, naturally white voters will look for a political home elsewhere." —Ian Henderson https://t.co/8WdAFYR3RI
— Brendon Peck 🍎 (@PeckPolitics) July 4, 2018
'Abolish ICE' a Sign of the Left's Rising Extremism
Totally.
At the New York Post:
At the New York Post:
‘Abolish ICE’ is a sign of the left’s rising extremism https://t.co/hq7sAu8asz
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 5, 2018
Leftist Can't Come to Grips With Loss of Power
It's V.D.H., at I.B.D., "The sudden and unexpectedly loss of power has driven the Left mad":
To progressives, Trump became not an opponent to beaten with a better agenda, but an evil to be destroyed. Moderate Democrats were written off as dense; left-wing fringe elements were praised as clever.RTWT.
Voters in 2016 bristled at redistribution, open borders, bigger government and higher taxes, but progressives are now promising those voters even more of what they didn't want.
Furious over the sudden and unexpected loss of power, enraged progressives have so far done almost everything to lose even more of it.
And that paradox only leads to more furor.
Looking at the Left at Concordia University
This is an enlightening piece, at Quillette, "Through the Looking Glass at Concordia University."
And interesting is the little Twitter exchange:
And interesting is the little Twitter exchange:
Well, it finally happened: a class of mine got singled out in a "horrors of the left" thinkpiece! My friend even got quoted! WE DID IT!https://t.co/nMF9W5wqAQ
— HANSA, the incredible melting man (@hansainallcaps) July 4, 2018
The teacher of said class emailed this article to his former students being like "do you guys even remember this happening???" and I feel like there were maybe better ways to handle that.
— HANSA, the incredible melting man (@hansainallcaps) July 4, 2018
If a student writes an article for a public audience is it kosher for professors to send it out in a mass email to other students for scrutiny? https://t.co/fvJxS6OHMl
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) July 5, 2018
Thanks for the RT, but I'm just gonna take the liberty of blocking you now - I'm not down to inadvertently promote your shitty website, and I'm definitely not interested in debating the flood of randos you've unleashed upon my mentions.
— HANSA, the incredible melting man (@hansainallcaps) July 5, 2018
Alan Dershowitz 'Shunned' by Leftists on Martha's Vineyard
He's supported President Trump and he's got a book out on Tuesday arguing against impeachment, at Amazon, The Case Against Impeaching Trump.
And at Instapundit, "ONE OF THE WAYS YOU CAN TELL THAT LEFTISM IS A RELIGION IS ITS RELIANCE ON SHUNNING APOSTATES: The Martha’s Vineyard Crowd Strikes Back at Alan Dershowitz for His Defenses of Trump."
And at Instapundit, "ONE OF THE WAYS YOU CAN TELL THAT LEFTISM IS A RELIGION IS ITS RELIANCE ON SHUNNING APOSTATES: The Martha’s Vineyard Crowd Strikes Back at Alan Dershowitz for His Defenses of Trump."
Oral History of 'The Purge' Franchise
I gotta go see this new "Purge" flick.
I love these movies and I saw the election purge in theaters last time around. They're so accurate, heh.
At LAT, "An oral history of 'The Purge' franchise: From micro-horror breakout to Trump-era cautionary tale":
I love these movies and I saw the election purge in theaters last time around. They're so accurate, heh.
At LAT, "An oral history of 'The Purge' franchise: From micro-horror breakout to Trump-era cautionary tale":
An oral history of "The Purge" franchise: From micro-horror breakout to Trump-era cautionary tale https://t.co/P2wWVsSuHf pic.twitter.com/GlPxOw4MZ1— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 4, 2018
When filmmaker James DeMonaco and his longtime production partner Sébastien Lemercier started working on "an X-rated treatise on violence," they had no idea they would eventually conceive of "The Purge."More.
"We thought it was going to be an independent Michael Haneke-type of film that would play in one theater in New York," said DeMonaco, who wrote and directed the first three movies in the ongoing "Purge" franchise.
"People were telling us it was way too anti-American,” DeMonaco said of the concept set in a near-future dystopia in which a dominant ultraconservative party, dubbed the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), has legalized all crime for one night each year. “So our original search for financing was completely independent. We had no thoughts [of] wide distribution or anything."
That all changed after the script landed on the desk of producer Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions. Blum had recently signed a three-year deal with Universal Pictures and was tasked with delivering genre movies that cost $4 million or less to make. He gave DeMonaco and Lemercier $3 million to make their film.
"It's really hard to make low-budget movies resonate, so I always told the filmmakers, ‘We'll worry about a sequel if it's a hit,’ ” said Blum. "Once we're doing sequels, we have a piece of IP that has been proven, so we're willing to invest more. But on the first movie, we don't think about what's going to be our next."
What would come next would be three sequels and a spinoff television show in a franchise that has earned more than $320 million worldwide even before the release of the fourth film, “The First Purge,” on July 4...
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