Paul Blustein, Schism

Well, this is timely.

Out next month, at Amazon, Paul Blustein, Schism: China, America, and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System.

Dow Drops 623 Points as U.S.-China Trade War Escalates (VIDEO)

At Barron's, "The Dow’s Week Turned Ugly After Trump Sparred With China and Powell."

And ABC World News Tonight. Notice Trump's "I am the chosen one" comments:

....having fun. I was smiling as I looked up and around. The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH...And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2019

Nazi Salute Video at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove

I don't know why these kids do it. I guess they simply haven't been taught the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Nazi acts by youth loom over increasingly diverse Orange County":

In March, social media blew up with photos of a group of partying students from Newport Beach and Costa Mesa giving the Sieg Heil salute to a bunch of red plastic cups arranged into a swastika. School officials immediately condemned the images, notifying parents across the district what had happened and what they planned to do.

The same month, school officials in Garden Grove were alerted to a group of Pacifica High School students raising the Nazi salute while singing a Nazi marching song at an off-campus athletic event.

Pacifica High administrators kept their situation quiet — which worked until this week, when the months-old recorded Snapchat video exploded online after it was sent to the Daily Beast.

Since Monday, Garden Grove Unified School District officials have learned of other videos and multiple allegations of students engaged in hate speech. The district has opened an investigation.

The students’ motivation and identities are unclear. But the images in Newport and Garden Grove reflect both a rise in such incidents nationwide and a conflict more specific to Orange County: tension between a rapidly diversifying populace and racist elements deeply seated in its history.

In September, at a football game in predominantly white Aliso Viejo, the visitors from a predominantly Latino high school in Santa Ana were met with signs of “Build the Wall” and “We love White,” according to the Santa Ana principal.

And white supremacist groups like the Rise Above Movement are giving a new voice to the bigotry of the skinheads and peckerwood gangs that long haunted Huntington Beach, Anaheim and working-class parts of the county. The group attacked counter-protesters and journalists at a rally in support of President Trump at Bolsa Chica State Beach in 2017.

The eight-second video from Garden Grove shows about a dozen Pacifica High school boys standing in what appears to be a banquet room giving the stiff-armed salute used in Nazi Germany, as the song “Erika,” written by German composer Herms Niel during Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power, plays in the background. At least one of the boys appears to sing the lyrics. One boy gets up and leaves, and another quickly drops his arm and sits down.

The video, taken before the start of an athletics banquet in November 2018, was originally shared among a small group of students on Snapchat. High school administrators learned of the video four months later and addressed the situation internally with the students appearing in the video and their families, Garden Grove Unified spokeswoman Abby Broyles said. School district officials did not know about the video until it surfaced Monday.

The students involved were disciplined, but officials declined to discuss the consequences they faced...

It was an "off campus" event. Seems like the First Amendment protects their speech, although that's no defense for it.

Still more.

Dove Cameron

At Taxi Driver, "Dove Cameron Hard Nipple Pokies in White Top."

Cannabidiod Women

At Drunken Stepfather, "TOP 25 CHICKS WHO PROBABLY USE CBD OF THE DAY."

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

Reparations Won't Make Blacks Whole

So say blacks themselves. It's about recognition, as if America hasn't recognized its original sin by 2019.

At LAT, "Slavery’s descendants say a reparations check won’t make the pain go away":

Many African Americans in South Carolina support reparations.

But others say that what they want just as much is for the country to grasp the painful history they live with every day. https://t.co/mYWRRcLeCt

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 18, 2019

CHARLESTON, S.C. —  Five years before the first shots of the Civil War rang out from the harbor here in 1861, alderman Thomas Ryan and a business partner opened Ryan’s Mart at No. 6 Chalmers St.
Their merchandise was slaves: African men, women and children who were prodded, picked over and auctioned off to the highest bidders.

The finest adult males could fetch up to $1,600 apiece —$49,000 in today’s dollars. The most able-bodied women could sell for $1,400.

Today, the former showroom in Charleston’s historic quarter, hidden on a narrow lane of row houses blazing with pink blossoms and palmetto trees, serves as the home of the Old Slave Mart Museum.

The museum and other historic sites in the American South lay bare a shameful chapter in the nation’s past, one that’s getting new attention in the debate over whether the government should pay financial reparations to an estimated 40 million descendants of slaves.

Many African Americans in this part of South Carolina support reparations. But they say what they want just as much is for the country to grasp the painful history they live with every day.

Their ancestors often were separated from their children on the auction block. Women were raped by their white owners. Slaves were beaten for waking up too late, not working hard enough or trying to escape. They were stripped of their African names and given the last names of their masters.

The hardship and humiliation didn’t end when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865. Black Americans continue to endure racist violence, entrenched poverty and inequities in areas such as education, employment and the criminal justice system.

“What the reparations debate is about is not so much people wanting to get money,” said Daniel Littlefield, a historian from Columbia, S.C. “Black people feel they deserve some acknowledgment of ongoing wrong.”

The reparations debate comes at an especially tense time. Since 2016, there’s been a nationwide rise in racially motivated hate crimes. Videos of police killings of African Americans have become all too common. President Trump’s attacks aimed at black leaders and immigrants have kept people on edge...

Keep reading.

Sofia Richie

At Drunken Stepfather, "SOFIA RICHIE NEW TITS STILL ON VACATION OF THE DAY."

Jarrett Stepman, The War on History

Out October 1st, at Amazon, Jarrett Stepman, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past.

Megan Parry's Thursday Forecast

Still wonderful weather, although summer's winding down for me. I start back to teaching classes on Monday. Enjoy your beautiful day, friends.

Here's the fabulous Ms. Megan, for ABC News 10 San Diego:

YouTube: Publisher or Public Forum?

Google/YouTube wants it both ways, with dire consequences for freedom.

Eric George explains, for Prager University:

Kate Bock Mega Babe (VIDEO)

Via Sports Illustrated Swimsuit:

Greenland

This is really a non-troversy, but hilarious nevertheless.

At the New York Times:

“Is this some sort of joke?” a former Danish prime minister asked. It was not. President Trump canceled his meeting with the prime minister of Denmark because she was not interested in selling Greenland.https://t.co/EV6R1sNnC4

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 21, 2019

And the trolling on Twitter. Jon Gabriel got picked up by POTUS and it's awesome.

Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu

— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019

I promise not to do this to Greenland! pic.twitter.com/03DdyVU6HA

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019

OMG https://t.co/BSlfxzLGYy

— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 20, 2019

Kate Mara

At Celeb Jihad, "KATE MARA NUDE COLOR-CORRECTED AND BRIGHTENED."

Spectacular Marisa Miller

She was always my favorite.

At Celeb Jihad, "MARISA MILLER NUDE PHOTOS ULTIMATE COLLECTION."

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Populism Rises Because the Left Has Become Unbearable

This is really great.

It's Piers Morgan, who I've liked but stopped paying attention to after he went on his gun-control jihad while still at CNN.

In any case, he's seen the light. I doubt that's changed his opinion on guns, but he's quite lucid on the problem facing all of us today, all of us in the Western industrial democracies where leftist PC-culture is destroying liberalism.

At RCP, "Piers Morgan: Populism Is Rising Because Liberals Have Become Unbearable":

The liberals get what they want, which is a humorless void where nothing happens, no one dares do anything or laugh about anything or behave in any way that doesn't suit their rigid way of leading a life. No thanks. So what's happening around the world? Populism is rising because people are fed up with the PC culture. They're fed up with snowflakery, they're fed up with people being offended by everything and they're gravitating towards forceful personalities who go: "This is all nonsense!"

Which, by the way, it is in most cases. So why are we surprised? I'm not surprised. It doesn't mean to say I agree with all of it, but it means I can understand it, and I understand why the liberals, my side, if you like, are getting it so horribly wrong. They just wanna tell people, not just how to lead their lives, but if you don't lead it the way I tell you to it's a kind of version of fascism. If you don't lead the life the way I'm telling you to then I'm going to ruin your life. I'm gonna scream abuse at you. I'm gonna get you fired from your job. I'm gonna get you hounded by your family and friends. I'm gonna make you the most disgusting human being in the world.

Christina Hendricks

I think the Other McCain used to love Christina Hendricks for Rule 5 blogging, heh.

At Celeb Jihad, "CHRISTINA HENDRICKS’ NUDE TITS ARE OUT OF CONTROL."

Ashley James

At Drunken Stepfather, "ASHLEY JAMES MASSIVE TITS OF THE DAY."

Position Players Pitching

I love this development, actually. It adds so much fun and variety to the game, although it's not optimal baseball from the manager's perspective.

I posted last month, for example, "Orioles Beat Angels in 16 Innings: Outfielder Stevie Wilkerson, Pitching 55 MPH, Records the Save (VIDEO)."

At USA Today, and third baseman Wade Boggs, back in 1997, below:

It's garbage time, all the time! MLB is seeing a historic spike in position players getting work on the mound. https://t.co/QYG7nQWT4A pic.twitter.com/mMIitzFZ5G

— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) August 21, 2019

Today In 1997: Wade Boggs uses his knuckleball to pitch a scoreless inning in a #Yankees 12-4 loss to the #Angels at Anaheim Stadium! #OTD #MLB #History pic.twitter.com/XndILRH90m

— Baseball by BSmile (@BSmile) August 20, 2019

Megan Parry's Wednesday Forecast

It's lovely summer weather, especially if you're near the beach.

Here's the beautiful Ms. Megan, for ABC News 10 San Diego: