This ONT Is No Joke!

—WeirdDave

Do you know why? This picture holds a clue:

Shocking

CO Soldiers Celebrating Post Deployment At Hilton Met With Shocking Sign ‘No Longer Serving Military & Their Guests’

The people that posted the sign? Fired. Huh. I guess wonders never do cease.

Them Other McDonalds Are Fine

Best video on the internet pic.twitter.com/Z8AjxinKsA

— Because I'm a Guy (@CauseWereGuys) March 15, 2019

Sure, she's a comedienne doing a bit, but it's a funny bit.

History

The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced

I found this bit to be interesting:

Hurston’s use of vernacular dialogue in both her novels and her anthropological interviews was often controversial, as some black American thinkers at the time argued that this played to black caricatures in the minds of white people. Hurston disagreed, and refused to change Lewis’ dialect—which was one of the reasons a publisher turned her manuscript down back in the 1930s. Many decades later, her principled stance means that modern readers will get to hear Lewis’ story the way that he told it.

That's....not usually celebrated. History is the study of people, and being able to “hear” those people with a realistic “voice” makes understanding them easier. Liberals have kittens over Huck Finn's use of the N word WRT Jim, but that realistic portrayal of the period vernacular makes the character's moral story arc more remarkable. Now, of course Huck Finn is fiction, but the same holds true with historical accounts.

Feminist Insanity

Georgia bill would require men to report every release of sperm to officers
This is somehow supposed to be the same as restrictions on abortion or something, don't ask me. They seem to miss the slight distinction that Pussy-Hat Pammy is, you know, killing someone while Onan over there is just messing up the sidewalk. In any event, I can imagine if this thing passed:

"911, what's your emergency?"

"Just reporting that I nutted officer"

"Ew"

"I'm going again, should I call back or do you want to hold the line?"

The Religion of Humanity
Christianity and Humanity—from a Distance

Mahoney draws on..(various philosophers - Ed)..to elucidate the ways in which Catholic laymen, intellectuals, and authorities—very much including Pope Francis—are allowing a desiccated humanitarianism to take the place of the Christian gospel itself. They are, as Machen complained about liberal Protestants a century ago, dutifully taking their orders from sages and experts who have only contempt for Christianity and so relinquishing the very thing they mean to preserve: their own relevance.

Almost every time I see non-Christians trying to use gospel as either a “gotcha!” to Christians or as a justification for one of their idiot ideas (Jesus was a socialist, man!), the number one thing that they miss is that the teachings of Jesus were intended for individuals. “Render unto Caesar” was a rejection of worldly concerns as applicable to his teachings at all (and a neat sidestep of a transparent trap).

Mmmm, Pie*

* 400 Quatloons to the person who gets the reference here.

Feel Good Story

Tonight's ONT brought to you by NeverTrumpers reacting to the news about the Mueller report:

Close it up

PRE OVERNIGHT THREAD: RACHEL MADDOW CRIES LIKE A HYSTERICAL LUNATIC

—Ace of Spades

All of the Daily Twitter Jerk-Off Circle of Self-Proclaimed Geniuses is busy trying to explain how "Chromatic aberrations" in the Birth Certificate image mean their conspiracy theories are still viable.

Tucker Carlson: The Media Figures Who Pushed This Soon-to-be-Disproved Sham Collusion Conspiracy Theory Should be "Punished"
Mollie Hemingway on Tucker Now

—Ace of Spades

This is from last night. It applies with even more force today.

Now, by "punished," he does not mean "indicted," as he clarifies. He means "publicly shamed" and "forced to apologize."

I normally wouldn't even agree with that... except I remember the left demanding "accountability" from pundits who made erroneous claims and false predictions about the Iraq War. And there was a lot of that in the media.

So: Should conspiracy theorists pushing a falsehood that undermines trust in the US democratic system be similarly required to come to a reckoning?

Answer: No. They control the message, and that means they control the questions that may be asked, and the criticisms that may be lodged.

You don't have to respond to a question or criticism you've suppressed so much that the half of the country you depend on for support never even hears of it.

Carlson also asks, rhetorically: If people on the right had claimed, without evidence, that Barack Obama was colluding with Iran for three years, would they be allowed on any media platform?

He says that's rhetorical. They wouldn't be -- unless they offered a groveling apology to King Barky the Wonderdog.

Definitely watch the opening of last night's show.

Take care! Have a nice weekend!

90 minutes away from entering the official Day 7 of the fast, and no problems!

Oh, and it's weird to put up Tucker from last night when you're probably watching Tucker now -- and Mollie's on now. But check this vid out later, just the first 8-10 minutes.

Can We Stop This Avenue of Conspiracy Theorycrafting Now?

When Fusion Ken says your conspiracy theory is wrong, it's wrong.

BTW: Someone on Fox pointed out that James Comey seemed to have advanced word of this report today. I think Harris Faulkner. Just sayin'.

Tucker Carlson Worries About Brian "Tater" Stelter's Hunger Pangs; Sends Him a Dozen Jelly Donuts

—Ace of Spades

What a mensch!

Sweet guy. He's made of nothin' but love.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson sent CNN Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter a dozen jelly donuts. Stelter received them Wednesday in New York, but so far has not reached out to Carlson in response. Sources tell The Mirror that Stelter was thrilled to get the delicate pastries but agitated and confused by the gesture. He told a number of people he had no idea what the point was.

Was it a peace offering? Maybe. It’s hard to get inside anyone's brain or stomach. But what is certain is that there are more jelly donuts on Stelter's horizon. From what I'm told, as many as he needs.

So jelly donuts every day?

The message might be about Brian Stelter's jelly-like core -- he's a bought-and-paid-for Company Man who doesn't dare say anything critical about his leftwing media allies or the Democrat Party's cherished narratives.

Also, a less-obvious message might be that Brian Stelter is super-fat and needs to change the pictures he uses for social media to pictures taken within 10 of his current BMI measurement.

I mean, seriously: It's one thing for an aging Hollywood starlet to use publicity pictures of herself as a younger woman, but Stelter is supposed a journalist, and he insists on using pictures of himself from 10 years and 70 pounds ago.

The donuts came from Dunkin' Donuts. The box was signed with a Sharpie: "Brian! Enjoy. All best, Tucker Carlson."

Tater's got a big, wide Smilex-gas Joker mouth. That boy looks like he could suck the chrome off a robot-dick.

Old Post: Actually, all of the best donuts are not donuts.

The Dud Bombshell, Continued

—Ace of Spades

I've added a bunch in the sidebar.

Here's some spin:

Old Spin: Mueller's going to prove Trump is guilty of colluding with a hostile foreign power

New Spin: the real story here is that Mueller performed creditably

Old Spin: The president is a traitor. We know this. We don't need to wait for evidence.

New Spin: Now that it's proven the president is not a traitor, don't YOU all owe apologies to Robert Mueller for smearing his name?

Old Spin: Trump and Jared and Don Jr. and a host of other conspirators colluded with Russia

New Spin: the lack of any new indictments, or any indictments mentioning conspiracy with Russia, probably just means that Trump isn't being indicted because he's a sitting president. I guess he conspired with Russia completely alone! "We'll see" what evidence our conspiracy theory may uncover in the future.

Flounder adds:

Some old spin/new spin I heard round about Feb., when they started downplaying this:

Old Spin: Muh Russia!

New Spin: Nah brah. I never really thought there was any Russian collusion.

YUP! That was a really egregious gear-grinding reversal. I forgot about that flip-flop. They have so many.

Flashback: Do you remember how often the walls were closing in on Trump or all the times the wheels were coming off?

NPR: AG Barr Has Received the Mueller Report
Barr Confirms He's Reviewing It

—Ace of Spades

Tweets below.

I know there's a lot of stomping going on but this is pretty big.

Update: A commenter says that Eric Swallwell is already saying Congress won't accept this report until Mueller swears under oath it is accurate and that he wasn't pressured, etc., so you know this is really great for the Democrats and Pierre Omidyar's Cabin Boys.

Also, alex the chick points out this timing:

92 Sent over after 5:00 p.m. On a Friday. On the Friday of what is pretty much the biggest sports weekend of the year. After 5:00 p.m. on a Friday during a time when it's a running joke about how nothing will get done because everyone is watching basketball.

Oh yeah this is going to be a huge blockbuster and prove treason by Trump.

Yup yup yup yup.

Here's a Long Distance Dedication in Sympathy to the media conspiracists and NeverTrump ladyboys.

I figure they love this song, and it's sad and melodramatic, and you really feel it in your butthole.

NAILED IT: The accurately-screennamed Soothsayer prophecizes the future:

Here's the spin:

It's What's Not In Mueller's Report That Is Important

Trump Appoints Conservative Supporter Stephen Moore to Fed Board; Moore Calls The Fed "The Swamp" And Has Said "Fire the Fed"

—Ace of Spades

This is the Club for Growth guy.

Moore has long been a supporter of Trump, including throughout the 2016 presidential election. He has written approvingly of the president’s criticisms of the Federal Reserve.

"I believe the people on the Federal Reserve Board should be thrown out for economic malpractice," he said in December.

Moore also spoke disapprovingly of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, noting, "I always thought he was a bad choice. He's been a Fed guy for many years. Donald Trump wanted to drain the swamp. The Fed is the swamp."

He also authored a recent op-ed titled, "Fire the Fed" in which he likened Powell to a misguided pilot who lost his way.

I was told Trump would be appointing his Democrat liberal sister to all of these positions.

I was told this by people who pretend to be geniuses on Twitter and who tell me they're the Ones Who Really Understand Politics and Reality and Stuff.

The left is trying to Education Shame Moore -- I mean, he "only" has a Master's Degree in Economics.

So what? Kessler seems to want to imply that most Fed chairmen are Nobel Memorial Prize winners (something I frankly never heard of before), but of course that's silly. He's talking about one guy that the GOP blocked, not on education grounds, I'm thinking, but for other reasons.

Meanwhile, Trump is boasting, as he does, about last year's 3.1% growth, which he points out is the best yearly growth in 14 years.

But he thinks it could have been better -- that it could have hit 4%, which is his goal -- if the Fed had stopped its aggressive rate-raising sooner.

That is why he wants an ally who thinks like him on the Fed's board, of course.

MUELLER REPORT DELIVERED TO AG BARR:

Southern "Poverty" Law Center Insiders: The SPLC Is a "Highly Profitable Scam"

—Ace of Spades

You don't say.

Peter Hanson:

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a "highly profitable scam" that "never lived up to the values it espoused," according to former SPLC staffer Bob Moser.

The New Yorker on Thursday published a scathing essay from Moser, now a Rolling Stone reporter, accusing the left-wing non-profit of "ripping off donors" while turning a blind eye to sexual harassment and racial discrimination within its own ranks.

The SPLC fired co-founder Morris Dees on March 13 over unspecified conduct issues.

The SPLC announced Dees' firing after roughly two dozen SPLC employees previously signed a letter to the organization’s leadership expressing their alarm at "allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism," The Los Angeles Times reported.

"The firing of Dees has flushed up all the uncomfortable questions again. Were we complicit, by taking our paychecks and staying silent, in ripping off donors on behalf of an organization that never lived up to the values it espoused? Did we enable racial discrimination and sexual harassment by failing to speak out?" Moser asked in his article.

One of Moser's former colleagues answered in the affirmative.

"Of course we did," she told Moser. "It's shameful, but when you’re there you kind of end up accepting things. I never even considered speaking out when things happened to me! It doesn’t feel good to recognize that. I was so into the work, and so motivated by it, I kind of shrugged off what was going on."

A spokesman for the SPLC did not return an email seeking comment on Moser's article.

A racist, sexist, sexual-harassment organization presumes to lecture us about racism, sexism, and hate.

We're in 1984 now.

The Mueller Dud Update: I missed this, this morning. (Go figure.)

The DOJ says the Mueller report will not contain any derogatory information about anyone not charged in the case.

That means that the report will not just throw a lot of dirt that can't be proven at Trump, absent any crime.

Which is what Democrats and NeverTrumpers have been praying for, if only to give them some intellectual cover for pushing this conspiracy theory for three years.

Ahoy! Bill Kristol's Cvcks-Seeking-Bulls Newsletter Now Just Attacking Conservatives With The Left's Favorite Smear -- "Racist"
Bill Kristol Completes His Transition to David Brock

—Ace of Spades

Now Officially Racist, according to the misogynistic, antisemitism-excusing relentless troll (almost as if he's getting paid for it!) "UrbanAchievr": Jesse Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, and Kurt Schlichter.

All for committing the Thoughtcrime of wondering whether or not this nation can -- or even should -- hold together as a single "united" states of America, or amicably split.

That's racist now. See, the Civil War was about slavery so any new thinking about whether America is united or devolving into a low-level cool civil war is also racist, Because Things Remind Dum-Dums of Other Things.

Like, for example, Kurt's speculative fiction about a future civil war in America is just like the Turner Diaries, Because Things Remind Dum-Dums of Other Things.

But the real slime is directed at the guy they really hate and fear: Kurt Schlichter. Because Kurt knows what they are and isn't afraid to call them out in public on it and they know he’s right.

What do they use for the evidence that Kurt is influenced by the alt-right? Kurt has written a series of dystopian action/thriller novels chronicling a civil war between an oppressive government collapsing beneath the weight of its own contradictions and a popular insurrection to restore freedom. And they claim that those books are exactly like the Turner Diaries, a book that served as Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's inspiration...

This Bulwark post isn't serious, it is spank material for self-described true conservatives who never seem to have the time to worry about what the left is doing but a surfeit if time to tell the rest of us when it is appropriate to wear MAGA hats and what we must believe in order to be true conservatives.

HBO's series based on the Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle also postulates a future dystopian America divided into sections and plagued by internal civil war.

Is that also alt-right? Or "racist"?

The future dystopia story is one of the absolute hottest premises in current fiction, and, I don't want to SPOIL anything here, but they all feature a divided, often tyrannical US which is created to stand-in for whatever particular political evil the author wishes to highlight.

All alt-right? All "racist"?

Literally hundreds of leftists have written books featuring a divided US, turned into a hellhole by conservative tyrants. Now one guy writes a book with the same basic notion in play, except the hellscape was created by a tyrannical leftist government.

The mysogynistic, antisemitism-excusing UrbanAchievr concludes: This one book is racist and just like the Turner Diaries.

This fellow-traveler is just incorporating his fellow leftist's Iron Rule: It's different when we do it; conservatives are to be treated completely differently with malign assumptions and evidence-free accusations, because, fundamentally, They Are Not Human.

Bill Kristol was so proud of today's trolling that he rushed to promote it as Conserving Conservatism on his preferred medium of Twitter (does he actually write anything real any more? Apart from requests for money from his leftwing backers?), and of course Jonathan Last's wife rushed out to second him.

I mentioned this last week, I think, but it's worth again noting that The Bulwark is now running articles telling us we shouldn't be worried about socialism:

Now that's what I call Conserving Conservatism.

BTW, Kurt Schlichter is an Army Colonel who actually volunteered to fight the wars the neocon chickenhawks jerk themselves off about.

Also, he's filling in on the Hugh Hewitt show next week. You know, Hugh Hewitt, noted racist insurrectionist. This might be why they chose to run this Pierre Omidyar/David Brock hit now, to pressure Hewitt to cancel or to set Hewitt up for their next round of "making people uncomfortable at dinner parties."

Remember, their stated mission now is just to "taint" people and smear them for not joining them in supporting Democrats.

Politico: Democrats Prepare Themselves for a "Dud" Mueller Report; Expect There to Be No More Indictments

—Ace of Spades

Remember, when evaluating your preferred pundits, which ones flagged this as a baseless conspiracy theory early and which have been breathlessly pushing it as the Rosetta Stone of impeachment.

WHY MUELLER IS ONLY THE BEGINNING... IF YOU TALK TO CAPITOL HILL DEMOCRATS PRIVATELY, you will hear something surprising about what they expect from ROBERT MUELLER: Many of them expect absolutely nothing. Several top Democratic lawmakers and aides tell us privately that they are certain the report will be a dud.

IF THAT'S THE CASE, the White House will immediately make the argument that it’s time for Congress to shutter its investigations into the president. But Democratic probes into PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP are going to drag on regardless of the Mueller report. The committees are looking into things that have nothing to do with Russian interference -- the president's company, security clearances, handling of classified information, decision-making in the White House and Cabinet scandals, for example.

The Democrats plan to argue that if Mueller found absolutely nothing that just proves that they need to do All the Investigations.

Via Twitchy, when this story was fed over Mika Brzezinski's teleprompter, she seemed like she'd been slapped in the face with a tuna as she read the horrible news that there would be no more indictments.

Update: Katy Tur dismisses the Mueller report, when she's told the Mueller report is expected to be a "nothingburger." She basically then says "Oh what does that guy know anyway."

'Let’s just put up on the screen everybody who’s already been found guilty or indicted in the Mueller investigation. Lots of faces, lots of pleas, and lots of indictments," Tur stated, as a graphic of individuals connected to Trump who have been indicted appeared including Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort.

"They've already come up with quite a bit, regardless of whether there or not there is direct collusion or conspiracy found between Donald Trump or his campaign and the Russians," she added.

So Trump's guilty if there's evidence, and he's guilty if there's no evidence.

Big League Politics: Man Anonymously Accuses CNN-Curious FoxNews Host Shep Smith of Sexually Assaulting Him While He Was Asleep in 2004

—Ace of Spades

It's an anonymous allegation from 15 years ago.

Not sure what to make of it. Audio of his claim at the link; here are some transcripted parts.

"I wake up, and Shepard is on top of me, like, in a towel or a bathrobe. And he's got his tongue down my throat and his hands all over me. Completely uninvited. I mean, I gave him no signal. There was nothing," John Doe #1 says in the interview -- excerpts of which are presented in audio form above.

..

"I pushed him off. I was like, 'Dude what are you doing?' And he's like, 'what you don't like it?' There was like this, kind of like No!, and he kept going, he kept pushing. Like, pushing his hands on all these spots," John Doe #1 said.

"He was just on top of me," John Doe #1 said, calling the experience "definitely shocking." John Doe #1 noted that "he finally stopped, but it took a lot of -- it wasn't just an immediate no, and then everything was like, so sorry."

John Doe #1 said that Shep Smith lunged at him "three or four more times" after the initial attack.

Fox News has not responded to a request for comment. The claimant did not provide any outside corroborating evidence, or at least Big League Politics doesn't note any.

I don't know how far we want to go down the #MeToo rabbit-hole with dated allegations.

Though... of course you know my rooting interest here.

Big League Politics previously brought us the scoop about Ralph Northam's blackface, so they're not unreliable. I just don't know if this guy has anything to back up his word apart from his word.

types
*deletes*
types
*deletes*

—Ace of Spades

So, I guess my only question is, which Bulwark employees were involved here?

For those who can't see the vid:

Guy loudly said "That guy's son killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad" so that Eric Bolling could hear it. Bolling's son, if you've forgotten, died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl a couple of years ago, which was mistakenly reported as a suicide for a while.

Bolling follows this asshole outside, confronting him. Guy speed-walks away.

Second guy -- one of the leftwingers staked out around the Trump Hotel, I assume -- grins like a lunatic and sticks his grinning face into Bolling's while taping him with a phone, laughing when Bollling asks "You think it's funny he's talking about my dead kid?" Guy continues his hyena leering.

Link to the vid here, thanks to slowdown, or Twitter embedded video below.

Fighting Words: Publius writes:

The "Fighting Words" doctrine still exists. There are two forms of it. One, the problematic form, is when the govt. claims your "fighting words" justify abridging your right to speak. That is getting narrower and narrower.

The other form is a defense against assault charges. You were provoked. That still exists, and varies with state and local law.

If Bolling beat the shit of that guy, he could probably claim he was provoked. That might get him off, or a lighter sentence.

The standard seems to be, a) the fighting words would be considered a breach of the peace and b) a reasonable person would be provoked to violence by them.

I was thinking the same thing.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Ladies and gentlemen I give you the progressive left: 2000: 'George Bush is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, and a homophobe. Dick Cheney is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, and a homophobe.' 2008: 'John McCain is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, and a homophobe. Sarah Palin is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, and a homophobe.' 2012: 'Mitt Romney is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, and a homophobe.' 2016: 'Wait, how did an awful man like Donald Trump ever get elected?'"

#SundayThoughts

Religion is a bedrock for a moral society, because it shows us that morality is absolute, not relative or subject to popular cultural whims.

Religious people are far more likely to give to charity/volunteer than the non-religious, and give more as % of income.

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) March 17, 2019

Bottoms Up:

Nothing New Under the Sun:

(h/t Babalublog)

The Pout:

(click for bigger pout)

And For the 'Ettes, A Good Man:

Wedbesday's celebs: Riya Sen (Bollywood) and Kurt Russell.

Friday Shoe Pr0n:

(click for bigger shoes)

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Surf and Turf:

Close it up

Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

James Stuart, Duke Of Richmond And Lennox With His Attributes
Anthony van Dyck

The Morning Report - 3/22/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Friday and I feel like a million... a million pieces of Mrs. O'Rourke's E.L. Fudge specials. Yesterday's malady is now a head cold. Feh. Anyway, let's do this before I plotz.

First up to immigration and amnesty. I am seeing these mass numbers being reported of alien invaders attempting to jump the border but more disturbingly that the authorities allegedly do not have the facilities to deal with them and so are just letting them go and disappear on our side of the border. This is just insane. Aside from the wall and building more facilities to house this human wave assault until they can be repatriated (no asylum) there has to be some way in which to punish Mexico for allowing them north, as well as Guatemala, Honduras and any other Central American nation that is intentionally doing the moral equivalent of reverse ethnic cleansing. Each and every one of them are failed third world shit-holes because of institutional corruption and, dare I say it, a cultural rot passed on from generation to generation of sloth and laziness. Is that racist? Or am I racist for suggesting it? Let's face it, racism means anyone speaking a truth or sparking a debate that could lead to learning the truth - - that must be silenced. Something has to give, and it does not involve billions of our dollars going to line the pockets of the corrupt and perpetuate the problem. Only now, that problem is our problem as much of the aforementioned region has already decamped on our side of the border, perhaps as much as 30 million or more, with more coming every day as the dissolution from within of our own nation at the hands of the Democrat-Left remains generally unchecked. Either this ends or it ends us. And the situation, despite Trump and more of an awakened populace that I had dared hope, is still very much in doubt.

Official Democrat Jew-Hatred: Get set for fireworks as so-called pro-Israel Dems are supposedly set to introduce anti-BDS legislation in the House, and Mike Pompeo rips into "Bro-Fo" Omar for her dark-age bilge.

Meanwhile, guess who James Clyburn compared President Trump to, after jettisoning Morris Dees-nuts, the SPLC has retained Michelle Obama's former aide to lead the phony anti-American front group, Bernie hires, not only a foreigner but an illegal alien, as an aide and gets slapped with an FEC complaint (where's ICE with the paddy wagon?), and Dem hopeful John Hickenlooper's favorite song is linked below. No words. Just... no.

To the general political scene where we have several good essays on the Democrats penchant for changing the rules to the election and legislative game when they can't win elections fair and square. A couple of good links including from R.S. McCain on the abject psycho klown kar that is the Dem 2020 field, Palsi Pelosi channels her inner Jack Woltz and lastly, so okay the guy raised $1 million for the GOP and spent it on hookers. I'd say he'd have wasted it if he gave it to the RNC.

An important story getting zero traction but which Rush Limbaugh is blasting from the EIB transmitters is the continued ramping up of the Russian collusion big lie despite or in anticipation that the Mueller report will be a big bust, filled with rage and invective and no real evidence at all. The usual gang of scum headed by none other than everyone's favorite actual Nazi collaborator George Soros as well as the traitors from Fusion GPS and Meathead Rob Reiner are all involved with money and mopery. We need a fistful of RICOs and one-way tickets on Aerolineas Pinochet.

Abortion: Sanity in Mississippi. May it be just the beginning.

First Amendment and Fake News Fakery: Google and Facebook fall for what is almost a 401 Nigerian mugu scam; taken down for $100 million in fake billing, and two pieces detailing John Oliver's propensity for being a malignant, no talent worm.

Guns: As predicted, New Zealand is coming for their citizens guns and making the Left here drool. And as stated, this is why we have the Second Amendment.

Foreign Desk: The big news is the President's announcing of US recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Very politically savvy as it most certainly means more Joo-hatred coming from the Democrats as well as perhaps boosting an under-fire Netanyahu. Also, it's just the right thing to do and this President more than any other I think specializes in doing just that. Elsewhere, the Maduro thuggery is warned about detaining an aide to President Guaido, Trump invokes freedom and liberty to the Iranian people on the Persian New Year holiday, the EU throws a lifeline to Theresa May, after the Golan, independence for Kurdistan is pondered, Trump sanctions China for NorK trade, Europe's problems are only exacerbated by Islam, not caused by them and in defense news, how the hell are we still giving the Turks high tech weapons systems?

We-All-Slam-For-I-Slam: With the crushing of the Islamic State in Syria, the only stronghold left is the Democrat National Committee, New Zealand goes full dhimmi in a disgusting and totally clueless display and a look at the real Islamophobia - Muzzy-inflicted muzzling from CAIR, etc.

Domestic News: Wisconsin hack-in-black puts illegal kibosh on GOP legally-passed legislation and San Francisco creates homeless encampment right in the heart of downtown. Also, the school bribery scandal highlights the ongoing and mostly ignored crony capitalism cancer on our politics, and Day-Ending-in-Y Dept., Medicaid is a multi-billion dollar pit of goniffing and corruption.

Education: The big news is the President's executive order demanding free speech for students on campus and a look at the college loan mess.

Red Greens: New York's enviro commies are hell bent to make the city and state cold and dark.

Feminazism and Transgender Mass-Psychosis: Who knew that ripping out your gonads and pumping you up with hormones could harm your heart and a the tribulations of a black feminist professor.

Lastly, an essay on the seeming transformation of the free-love generation into one of prudish scolds. It's all about the totalitarianism, darling.

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

BORDER WALL, MIGRANT INVASION, AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
• Overwhelmed ICE Facilities Forced to Release 100,000 Illegal Aliens In Past 3 Months
• Obama's Border Patrol Chief Says Border Crisis is "Absolutely a National Emergency"
• Palsi Pelosi: Trump "Has Decided to be in Defiance of the Constitution"
• Orwellian Spectacle Overshadows Immigration Debate
• Plutocrats Unite: Big Tech, Business Lobby, Outsourcers Demand Amnesty

  OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED DEMOCRAT PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM
  

• Pro-Israel House Dems Will Introduce a Measure Condemning the BDS Movement (pass the popcorn - jjs)
  
• SoS Pompeo Unloads On "Bro-Fo"" Omar; Calls Her Anti-Semitic Comments "Abhorrent"

  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  

• James Clyburn Compares Trump's Rise to Hitler: "Greatest Threats to Democracy of My Lifetime"

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  

• Former Staffer Says SPLC "Ripping Off Donors," "Highly Profitable Scam"
  
• After Firing Co-Founder, SPLC Hires Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff to Review Workplace Culture
  
• FEC Complaint: Bernie Breaking Federal Law by Employing Foreign National
  
• Hickenlooper's Remarks About Women on Presidential Tickets Backfire
  
• Democrat Presidential Candidate Hickenlooper: "I Took My Mother to See Deep Throat (did she put out afterwards? - jjs)

  POLITICS
  

• GOP Plans Constitutional Amendment to Stop Supreme Court Packing
  
• Reparations Cause Rift Among Democratic Socialists
  
• Michael Bennet Allegedly Close to Entering Presidential Race
  
• Hollow Globalism Drives "Bro-Fo" Omar's Politics of Affectation
  
• A Brief Survey of 2020's Psychotic Democrat Roster
  
• R.S. McCain: Escaping the Clown-Car Campaign
  
• Greenfield: National Popular Vote - How Small State Dems Are Selling Out Their States to California
  
• Restoring States' Rights to Presidential Elections
  
• Fernandez: Progressive Strategy for 2020: Change the Rules of Engagement
  
• Black: Constitutional Fairyland
  
• Un-Fun Ghoul: Palsi Pelosi Says "When the Italians Were Here, They Were Called 'WOPs,' and You Know What That Means?"
  
• Republican Operative Raised More Than $1 Million for Party... Partying with Hookers, That Is
  
• Why My Party - The Democrats - Will Lose in 2020 (inshalla - jjs)

  SPYGATE, MUELLER WITCH HUNT, DEEP STATE, CONGRESSIONAL COUP
  

• Soros-Funded PR Shop Constructing Media Echo Chamber to Push Impeachment

  ABORTION
  

• Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant Signs "Fetal Heartbeat" Abortion Bill Into Law

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG TECH BROTHER
  

• Google and Facebook Remain Blessed; Fell for Invoice Scam That Cost the Companies $100 Million
  
• 5 People John Oliver Brutally Shamed Without Apology
  
• The Twisted World of John Oliver

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• New Zealand's Knee-Jerk Gun Ban is Exactly Why We Have the Second Amendment

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  

• Trump: It's Time "To Fully Recognize Israel's Sovereignty Over the Golan Heights"
  
• First the Golan, Next Kurdistan
  
• Venezuela Detains Top Guaido Aide in Move US Calls "Big Mistake" (link to Reuters [sorry] - jjs)
  
• EU Leaders Throw Theresa May a Lifeline; Agree to Short-Term Brexit Delay
  
• Treasury Sanctions Chinese Companies for Illicit NorK Trade
  
• Brazil Does Not Need to Join NATO
  
• Trump Marks Persian New Year With Call for "Rebirth of Liberty in Iran"
  
• The Christchurch Killer: Don't Blame Islam for Europe's Decline

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  

• US Concerned Sale of American Warplanes to Turkey Could Boost Russian Intel Ops (why have we not isolated Turdogan already? - jjs)

  ISLAM, TERRORISM, SHARIA, DHIMMITUDE
  

• Report: Final Islamic State Stronghold in Syria Falls (big one still remains at the DNC - jjs)
  
• New Zealand Broadcasts Islamic Call to Prayer to Honor Mosque Attack Victims
  
• The Real Islamophobia

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  

• Democrat Hack-in-Black Blocks Laws Legally Passed by Wisconsin Republicans in Lame-Duck Session
  
• San Francisco Prepares to Site Large Homeless Shelter in the Heart of the City

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  

• Big Business, Like Hollywood Big Shots, Games the System
  
• The Tech Campus Moves Downtown

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  

• Mail Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc Pleads Guilty (this thing was dropped like a hot potato IMHO - jjs)

  HEALTHCARE
  

• What's Up With Medicaid's Sloppy Oversight?

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  

• Trump Signs Executive Order to Preserve Free Speech On College Campuses
  
• Loan Reform Requires Colleges With Skin in the Game

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  

• Red Greens' Recipe For More New York Gas Shortages

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  

• Our Queer Decline
  
• New Evidence Indicates Cross-Sex Hormones Trigger Major Heart Problems
  
• Black Professor Picks Feminism, Loses at Life

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  

• Why the Left Is Developing Into a Bunch of Prudish Tramps

Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's Nineteen ONT

—WeirdDave

Thursday night was always the big party night in college. I don't know why, we did have classes on Friday, but hey. Of course, we never partied like these guys:

Super Smash Bros

GAY COUPLE DISCOVERS THEY ARE IN FACT LONG LOST TWINS

Ugh. I can't even. Why wouldn't you tell your kids they're adopted? (I know, it's satire. I just fell in love with the title for this section. NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT!)

Jesse Needs Help

Ok, I let this video circle web for 48 hours before I asked so don’t yell at me. Chick on the left, kinda hot? pic.twitter.com/lCx1e5j4Vn

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) March 21, 2019

That's true.

I don't care how hot a woman is, the hot/crazy matrix only goes up to 10. If she's beyond that – on either axis – I'm staying far away. There was an article today in The Bulwark (I read these things so you don't have to) lambasting Jesse (and Kurt Schlichter too) for being a racist white nationalist.

CBD said it very well in this morning's rant:

"White Nationalism" is what Orwell warned us about. Do not let the Left take control of the language and the terms, because that is their first step in the totalitarian dance, and they know the moves and music very well.

If there is any one phrase to describe it, perhaps "American Nationalism" is appropriate, because the melting pot concept is one that is tried and true and helped to create the greatest economic engine in history, and one that worked quite well for a very long time.

There are plenty of 6th generation Americans who can trace their lineage to Mexico, and there are plenty of 2nd and 3rd generation Americans who can trace their lineage to pretty much anywhere in the world...and that's great! But the operative word is "American." Assimilate, embrace our political institutions and Exceptionalism, and presto...instant American.

And that is "American Nationalism." It is not color...it is love of country. But I guess that's too simple a definition for some.

It's not “too simple” a definition, it's too accurate, and they are deathly afraid of accuracy. They have to classify the opposition as “racist”, because it's the only charge that has enough caché to shut down debate before it happens. $tormfr*** is the largest white nationalist site online, and it has maybe 2-3000 members. The neo-Nazis had a tiki-torch racism rally in Charlottesville, and didn't even attract enough people to fill a high school gym. White nationalism, fascism, neo-nazism...whatever you call it, it's all a dead letter in modern America. The dragon has been slain, but to admit that would be to admit to the world that all they're doing is charging their nags at windmills. So they pull out their tired old paintbrushes and slap a new coat of “racism” on America to justify their existence. Interesting factoid: The author of the Bulwark screed spends a great deal of time selectively quoting Schlichter's books to portray his hero, Kelly Turnbull, as a white nationalist – yet nowhere in any of the books is Kelly's race or ethnicity revealed. Projection is not just a river in Egypt.

(Oh, and JFTR, the girl that Jesse was joking about being “hot”? She's a faith healer for horses.)

Related: Americans Are Divided by Their Views on Race, Not Race Itself Interesting POV.

Doctor, Doctor, Give Me The News

Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through hospital robot's video screen

They send a robot into this man's room to tell him he's dying, and then, to add insult to injury, he's hard of hearing so his granddaughter has to relay the message. Just horrible all around. Assembly line medicine, coming soon to a deathbed near you.

Semper Why?

Venezuelan Army Attempts to Scare US Marines with Video

The big secret revealed here is that Bill Murray and Harold Ramis are apparently training the Venezuelan military. I have to admit that one part of the video is pretty scary. Watch at about 1:20. They are firing on full auto with weapons that don't have any mags in them. That's impressive!

Party Foul

737 MAX thread

Interesting thread on what's the real problem with the 737 MAX

Two things: #1) I'm not an aeronautical or software engineer, so I don't know how accurate this guy is, but he sounds plausible.

#2) It's at Zero Hedge, so don't read the comments.

That's Probably NOT What They Logged On For*

Still funny though.

*If you're not familiar with what most people use sites like this for well.....lets just say that a clue can be found in the name of a nearly identical site called “Chaturbate”. They've been know to offer a five finger discount to members, IYKWIMAIKYD.

Tonight's ONT brought to you by Greg:

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Trump Signs Executive Order Re-Affirming That Colleges Must Defend the Right to Free Speech Or Lose Federal Grants; Also Demands Schools Provide a Report Card on Their Students' Ability to Repay College Debt

—Ace of Spades

Keeping promises.

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to promote free speech on college campuses by threatening colleges with the loss of federal research funding if they do not protect those rights.

"We’re here to take historic action to defend American students and American values," Trump said, surrounded by conservative student activists at the signing ceremony. "They’ve been under siege."

"Under the guise of speech codes, safe spaces and trigger warnings, these universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity and shut down the voices of great young Americans like those here today," he said.

A senior administration official said the order directs 12 grant-making agencies to use their authority in coordination with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to ensure institutions that receive federal research or education grants promote free speech and free inquiry.

This order does not really order schools to do more than they're already supposed to be doing -- but it is a shot across the bow that the law will be actually followed going forward, and noncompliant schools will be punished as the law provides, and that "compliance" may be interpreted more strictly than it has in the past.

He also directed schools to start reporting on how their students repay -- or do not repay -- student loans accumulated at their schools.

It's funny, the people the GOPe shills and their leftwing allies insist to me were "Honorable" lied to me constantly. Like when John McCain ran for reelection with a promise made in an ad to "Build the Dang Fence," then immediately opposed border fencing when he won, or when he ran for years on the promise to repeal ObamaCare, then sided with his Very Good Friends the Democrats when he had an opportunity to vote for repeal with a president who would sign that repeal into law.

I have a theory on that: It's not lying if you're lying to people unworthy of honesty. Just like a knight didn't have to offer honorable combat to ruffians or commoners -- just other knights or those deemed to have "honor" (often a matter of bloodline and breeding), our politicians aren't really lying if they just lie to the Deplorables, who are deplorable.

The Deplorables, wack-a-doos, and Hobbits need to be lied to to be steered into being tricked into passively accepting the GOPe/liberal line. And McCain knew that -- and he was courageous in his willingness, nay, eagerness to lie to Deplorables to inflict the globalist GOPe/liberal transnational progressive line on them.

Meanwhile -- this liar Trump, huh?

See, he's dishonorable because he keeps promises to those who are themselves dishonorable.

McCain was a Noble Man because he lied to Deplorables who are not owed the truth; Trump is an Ignoble Monster because he keeps faith with the Deplorables who should be treated like animals, not human beings.

Sort of Related: British police investigating journalist for the crime of "misgendering" (an Orwellian term meaning "correctly noting the gender of") a tranny.

Keanu Reaves and Alex Winter Announce They're (Maybe, Hopefully) Going to be Filming Bill & Ted 3 This Summer for a 2020 Release
Plus Dogs and Werewolf Cats
Also, GAINZZZ, brah?

—Ace of Spades

A bit longer in the tooth than you remember Bill & Ted, but that just gives them the chance to time-travel to meet de-aged versions of themselves for a bit.

Plus, men are never too old to be completely stupid.

The world is about to get a lot more excellent. Watch this special announcement from your two favorite dudes! 8.21.20 🎸⚡️ pic.twitter.com/miOtBhinlC

— Bill & Ted 3 (@BillandTed3) March 20, 2019

Also, enjoy this from andycanuck.

wasn’t me pic.twitter.com/LMmEQtun1k

— Samuel Bailey (@iSamuelBailey) March 16, 2019

Finally, people today were talking about the "lycoi" cat breed, or "werewolf cats." (Lycoi is, they tell me, a Greek (ish?) word for wolf-cat.)

They do look a lot like wolves. Not completely. I mean, they are cats. But enough like werewolves that the name fits.

i can haz manburger?

me look lik Lon Chaney

me pose like Lon Chaney in the movie poster for the Wolfman
look at me arm half-raised

i can rip entrails?

u smell like fear and tuna-melt

i awake when the moon is full...
for twenty minutes, then i go back to napping

i savor your sweet sweet flesh

PS: Day five of this fast almost in the books (it'll be five full days at like 9:30) and it was a SNAP!

I only had one bad night, two nights ago (Tuesday night, day 3).

I stupidly started looking up recipes for when I break fast and spent, I'm not kidding, four hours paging through recipes. I was up until 3 am thinking about food.

Do you know there are lots and lots of recipes for low-carb versions of Chinese food, like fried rice, lo mein, General Tso's chicken and sesame chicken?

And did you know when you're really hungry and saliva is pouring into your mouth you might impulsively blow $50 on a Lodge wok from Amazon? It's true.

But that was the only real tough part of this particular fast, and it was self-inflicted. I avoided that nonsense the last couple of days.

I will not be browsing low-carb Chinese food recipes tonight. But the wok came today, and it made me really hungry.

Gotta tell you: A couple of weeks ago I made Low Carb Chicken Parm, using a recipe a lot like this one, and man: It was good.

Breaded stuff is my downfall on low carb. It's the stuff I convince myself that I can eat because it's "just a few carbs." (PLOT TWIST: No it's not, it's actually a pretty high amount like 8-15 grams per breaded thing.)

But this? It was a nigh-perfect substitute that satisfied my huge cravings for chicken parm -- something I haven't had in years. I gotta recommend you try this, if you're low carb/keto. And few carbs-- just a little from the cheese and the (modestly applied) sauce. Those carbs really can't be avoided.

Really simple and fast to make. I'm not even sure where you'd go wrong in preparing it. It's stupid-easy.

After I break this fast: I'm going to do "Breaded" cod, and maybe put some American cheese on some bigger pieces to make a McDonald's Filet-o-Fish knock-off. And then of course chicken tenders with low-carb honey mustard sauce.

Sometime down the line I'll try my hand at actual KFC style fried chicken. But that's more involved, so the cod and the chicken tenders first.

The various substitutions for real breadcrumbs -- usually crushed pork rinds, sometimes mixed with grated parmesan, sometimes with almond flour (which does have carbs but not too many and it's only part of the breading) -- do seem to work, though I've only tried the chicken parm so far. But it seems like it would work with most stuff.

I'll just repurpose George Costanza's observation: A man on low-carb who is not using the pork-rinds-for-breading trick is not a man.

Seriously, I feel like Pizzaro seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Or whoever it was. (Update: It was Vasco Nunez de Balboa. Apologies to Sr. de Balboa.)

That's how serious this Pork Rinds Breadcrumb sitch is.

Assuming I do not experience what I have usually experienced towards the end of day 5 -- an irrational (full physical symptoms) panic that I'm killing myself and that I must break the fast and eat ALL THE FOOD -- I'll actually hit day six for the first time ever.

Really looking forward to that. I just want to get to day seven this time, and I'll be happy.

(I have one post in the queue but I'm posting this one now to comment in it. The next one I'm going to post and then sign out.)

Close it up

Update: No Democrat Presidential Candidates Have Accepted AIPAC's Invitation to Speak Before Them Yet

—Ace of Spades

Complete boycott. AIPAC meets next week.

No Democratic candidate for president has yet agreed to attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual Policy Conference next week.

According to Politico, Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) confirmed through an aide Thursday that she will not be attending.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D., Tex.), and Howard Schultz will reportedly do the same.

...

Harris has previously spoken in warm terms at AIPAC's Policy Conference, calling it "an honor" to speak there in 2017. Other declared presidential hopefuls, such as Sens. Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.), and Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), have made similar remarks.

Because this is an update and you probably don't have much more to say about it, I will note that the Fiercely Heterosexual Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, is now calling for "Radical Love."

Before he accused Republican policies of causing people to die, Booker promised his presidential campaign would offer the country "radical love."

"People want to say love is a soft, namby, sort of like, 'Oh, kumbaya' sentiment," he said. "I think it's the most ferocious, tough, hard, force there is."

Buried lead: the Fiercely Heterosexual Cory Booker wants Radical Love, and wants it with ferocious, tough, hard force.

"Fiercely Heterosexual" (c) 2019 by Deplorable Jay Guevera.

Alexandria Donkey-Chompers: When I First Started Going to School, My Teachers Thought I Was a Retard

—Ace of Spades

Well... they're not wrong.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recalled how her public-school teachers thought she needed "remedial education" because she had grown up speaking Spanish at home.

And also, I'm guessing, because she's stone-cold stupid and ignorant as a lichen.

The freshman lawmaker, speaking Saturday at a packed town hall organized by the Jackson Heights People for Public Schools, said, "As a child I spoke Spanish first. … and I went to a school where no one looked like me. I went to a school where teachers thought I needed remedial education because I spoke two languages instead of one."

Oh? Which two languages?

And yeah, I totally believe that being bilingual in New York City was a totally exotic thing that teachers were baffled by in Nineteen F***ing NINETY-SIX, about when this retard would have begun school.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit... I bet one third of her teachers spoke Spanish as a first language themselves.

It wasn't until she took a "high-stakes" test in which she scored in the 99th percentile across the board, she said, that educators realized she did not need extra help.

Was that 99th from the bottom, or 99th percent from the top?

Now I took a test like that. I think they gave scores on a percentile basis.

But New York educators are saying no such tests like that were given in New York at this time.

According to Ravitch, however, Ocasio-Cortez's claim sparked "controversy" during the event.

In a blog post generally praising the congresswoman, Ravitch notes Ocasio-Cortez could not be telling the truth about her test experience. The "high-stakes" test, she explains, is not scored by percentile.

Ravitch writes:

There was much talk about the importance of parents taking action by opting out of state tests. NYC has one of the lowest opt-out rates in the state, in some part because parents are warned that they won’t be admitted to the middle school or high school of their choice without test scores. It was a bit jarring to hear AOC say that she was treated in the Yorktown schools as in need of remedial education because she was Hispanic, not mainstream, but, she said, "a-high-stakes standardized Test" revealed she was in the 99th percentile. No one stopped to point out that she could not be referring to any high-stakes test used for accountability purposes because they don't rank by percentile. They classify students as 1, 2, 3, or 4. Her teacher must have given her a no-stakes individual test that produces a percentile ranking for diagnostic purposes. Well, she can't know everything about everything. None of us do.

She's pretending Spanish -- Spanish! -- was an exotic language few Pale Faces in New York City had ever heard spoken before in 1996.

As if we're talking about some small suburb of Boise in 1955.

Dr. Evil would like to comment.

Weirdly, Asians, who often speak languages that are legitimately exotic in the US to this day, seem to have no problem passing for non-retards in school and in fact are so good at passing for non-retards that Alexandria Donkey-Chompers supports a system to affirmatively discriminate against them for being so high on the non-retard scale.

Meanwhile, this insane narcissist spazzed the f*** out because people called her "Cortez" instead of "Ocasio-Cortez."

She says "AOC" is okay, though. Whew.

And as for her name? Spanish surnames are compound names made up from one name from the father, one from the mother. I think the first name of each parent's last name is used to make the kid's compound.

So I guess Alexandria Donkey-Chompers' dad's first last name was "Donkey" and her mother's was "Chompers."

But the thing is, many times people from a Spanish culture just use the first last name (their father's) as a surname. Vicente Fox, for example. His full name was Vicente Fox Quesada, but he routinely went by "Fox."

So it's no insult to just shorten her name to the one. (Though I think when you do this, you take the first of the two surnames, not the second. So she'd be Sandy Ocasia, not Sandy Cortez.)

But she takes it as an insult and a racist one to boot. Millennials and their microaggressions and pronoun-play.

F*** off, race-baiting dummy. Honey, when the Democrat party redistricts your ass back to bartending and juicing your tips by unbuttoning a couple of buttons, no one's going to have to know your name.

Yorktown Heights: A commenter points out she grew up in Yorktown Heights, a suburb of New York city (next county to the north).

Okay, fair enough: But in Yorktown Heights, then, 25 minutes from New York City, people are baffled by Spanish speakers in 1996?

Dude, I am much older than she is from a podunk town far, far from New York City or any city at all and I had Filipinos (who spoke Spanish) and kids from Mexico and Central America and an actual just-got-here arrival from Ar-hen-tina in my grade school.

No one was wigged out. No teachers said, "I do not understand these alien sounds you are making with your foreign mouth."

Ho Boy: Kellyanne Conway Says Her Husband Should Air His Grievances In Private; Stresses That She's "Italian Catholic" and Very Protective of Her Children

—Ace of Spades

She later cautions about outsiders acting as "marriage experts" opinion on the state of their marriage, but I have a hard time hearing this as something other than "Yeah, George and I have problems, but we're trying to keep up appearances for the sake of the children, and George is making that difficult with his acting up."

An interesting thing, maybe a tell. She says that George agreed to come to DC and joined a law firm as a "partner." Then she corrects herself and says he's "of counsel."

Now, "of counsel" is a designation for someone who's too senior to be an associate but who's not a partner. There are different reasons for being "of counsel" -- like maybe you want to practice law but you don't want to buy into the firm or you don't want to bill the hours a partner is expected to bill -- but it's generally considered, well, not quite at the same level of "partner."

I think it's interesting she corrected herself here, when no one in the world would have batted an eye at calling him a "partner," even if he wasn't that.

It's like... well, a dig. Maybe.

Hard to watch. Cringey! Therefore: Most recommended!

Sad Twitter-Cuck John Podhoretz Apologizes For Wishing That a Neutron Bomb Would Destroy the NYU School of Journ0lizming

—Ace of Spades

It was a very serious death threat. Obviously it needs to be apologized for.

So that Twitter can forgive John, and the healing process can begin.

I'm Sorry

On Wednesday, I wrote an aggressive and rude satirical tweet involving a neutron bomb, the NYU Journalism School, journalism schools in general, and two writers. I regret my attacks on Lauren Duca and Talia Lavin, which were unprovoked and therefore entirely unseemly. I wholeheartedly apologize to them.

I am a journalist. I employ journalists. I publish journalists. I have spent a 37-year career working in and around and among journalists. I have worked full-time at six major journalistic institutions. Let me assure anyone who might have believed otherwise from my tweet that I love my profession and I do not wish to see any fellow journalists come to harm.

Podhoretz's account appears to be deleted, which I assume would have to be something Podhoretz would do himself. Whether he deleted on his own initiative or deleted in frustration/embarrassment/anger after Twitter suspended, him, I don't know.

Either way, I bet you he's back on Twitter in two or three weeks. (Can you un-delete an account?)

He just can't quit it. He's frequently announcing Grand Departures from Twitter, only to show back up, sometimes, within a day.

I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT

These people are absolutely addicted to Twitter and will censor themselves and abase themselves to keep their drug of choice flowing.

I'm in favor of all of the cucks being booted off Twitter. It's an incubator for rigid conformity with the liberal line -- the cucks all get incepted by liberal propaganda every morning then, because they're huge (and unwarrantedly so) egotists, think they thought up the idea their leftwing twitter pals implanted in their stupid, ill-educated heads and become as protective of these incepted leftwing memes as a parent is of their children.

For example: They're all still yapping about Trump having called Neo-Nazis "very fine people."

This was something their swell liberal pals told them on Twitter, and then they all began dutifully repeating it. Endlessly.

One problem:

It never happened, the transcript and the audio of the statement clearly proves it never happened -- in fact the opposite happened, Trump plainly said "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally" -- but the cucks' liberal clique-mates said it happened on Twitter and Twitter is Real and you should believe everything on Twitter because Twitter is Your Friend and I Can't Believe This Site Is Free. (That's an actual catchphrase the twitter addicts frequently say to praise Twitter. Yes, they really say that. A lot.)

So ban them all. Let them do their own thinking for the first time in, well, definitely years, maybe decades.

MoveOn.org Demands Democrats Boycott AIPAC Not Because of Its "Islamophobia" (aka, Rejection of Antisemitism); Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren Will Dutifully Boycott

—Ace of Spades

Here's the crew that Bill Kristol is shilling for now.

MoveOn asks 2020 Dems to boycott AIPAC conference The mostly symbolic move deepens a progressive rift on Israel.

By BEN SCHRECKINGER and MARC CAPUTO 03/20/2019 01:54 PM EDT

The liberal group MoveOn is calling on Democratic presidential candidates to skip this year’s AIPAC policy conference, citing the pro-Israel group’s links to the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu and charging that AIPAC has flirted with Islamophobia.

The move underscores a growing willingness on the left to criticize Israel and its staunchest Washington supporters, particularly since freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) bashed supporters of Israel in terms widely condemned as anti-Semitic.

And just like that:

And, according to Linda Sarsour, Warren is going to Boycott the Jews as well:

Oh by the way:

Politico: 12 Different Political/Economic Models of Voter Behavior Predict a Trump Victory in 2020, and Not a Small One

—Ace of Spades

President Donald Trump has a low approval rating. He is engaging in bitter Twitter wars and facing metastasizing investigations.

But if the election were held today, he’d likely ride to a second term in a huge landslide, according to multiple economic models with strong track records of picking presidential winners and losses.

Credit a strong U.S. economy featuring low unemployment, rising wages and low gas prices -- along with the historic advantage held by incumbent presidents.

...

"The economy is just so damn strong right now and by all historic precedent the incumbent should run away with it," said Donald Luskin, chief investment officer of TrendMacrolytics, a research firm whose model correctly predicted Trump’s 2016 win when most opinion polls did not. "I just don't see how the blue wall could resist all that."

...

"Even if you have a mediocre but not great economy -- and that's more or less consensus for between now and the election -- that has a Trump victory and by a not-trivial margin," winning 54 percent of the popular vote to 46 for the Democrat, he said. Fair's model also predicted a Trump win in 2016 though it missed on Trump's share of the popular vote.

The Morning Rant: J.V. Edition

—CBD

"White Nationalism" is what Orwell warned us about. Do not let the Left take control of the language and the terms, because that is their first step in the totalitarian dance, and they know the moves and music very well.

And that is "American Nationalism." It is not color...it is love of country. But I guess that's too simple a definition for some.

******
Amazing what free markets can do!

The Modern Miracle of Air-Conditioning

temperature and humidity have a strong influence on labor productivity. For example, in machine shops, labor productivity is at its peak at 65 degrees Fahrenheit with humidity between 65 and 75 percent. Productivity is 15 percent lower at 75 degrees Fahrenheit and 28 percent lower at 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Moreover, accident rates are 30 percent higher at 77 degrees Fahrenheit than at 67 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Peanut Tillman Is Building A Row Boat With His Bare Hands and Sailing It Across Lake Michigan For Pediatric Charities

Tillman won't be making the trek by himself. He's teaming up with a tech executive named Jacob Beckley, who has rowed across Lake Michigan before but vowed to never do it again. Tillman had to convince Beckley to go through the whole ordeal a second time.

As for building the boat, well, that was done to cut down on costs. In order to buy a boat appropriate for rowing across Lake Michigan, the two would have had to pay $80,000.

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A Tara Ross TweetStorm that is very much worth reading.

I’m not big on Tweetstorms, but I suppose if I am ever going to do one, now is the time. #ElectoralCollege. Been studying it since 2001. Yesterday, E. Warren came out against the E.C., as you’ve prob. heard /1

She said: “My view is that every vote matters and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting and that means get rid of the electoral college -- and every vote counts.” The audience broke out in applause. /2

Well, no wonder. Most have spent a lifetime hearing that the #ElectoralCollege is evil (slavery) & outdated (we have airplanes/Internet now!). None of it's true, but people have heard it so often that they simply don't know. Here is the truth: /3

The Founders created the #ElectoralCollege because they knew several things we have forgotten: (1) Simple democracies are dangerous. Bare or emotional majorities can tyrannize even large minority groups. Two wolves & a sheep voting on what’s for dinner is not a good system. /4

(2) They understood: Humans fallible. Power corrupts. Ambition, selfishness, greed are dangers. Some claim Founders were elitists who didn’t trust the people. NO. They didn’t trust ANYONE. Not the people, not elected officials, not states or feds. Checks & balances on EVERYONE /5

Carol Berkin states this wonderfully, noting that delegates to Const’l Convention were the most likely men to be elected to 1st Senate or as 1st President….. Yet they still sat and debated how to put checks and balances on those offices bc THEY DIDN’T TRUST THEMSELVES either. /6

#ElectoralCollege serves us well: It has several benefits that go unrecognized: 1st: It makes it harder to steal elections. Can’t steal election unless you steal votes in right state @ right time AND national election fairly close. /7

With a National Popular Vote system, obviously, any vote stolen anywhere affects national outcome. This is true even if the vote is easily stolen in a very safe blue or red state. This is a dangerous situation that the #ElectoralCollege protects us from today. /8

2nd, the #ElectoralCollege rewards coalition-building. Perhaps that sounds weird, after 2016? But NO ONE focused on coalition building that yr, not really. The result? A close election: One party lost. The other mostly avoided losing. But, yes, there was a coalition. & it won. /9

Coalition that won in 2016 = group of voters who are tired of being ruled by DC elites. They don’t feel heard. They see DC insiders living by one set of rules while we live by another. They are tired of being told what to think. Tired of being called names simply bc disagree /10

Some of this coalition voted for Trump enthusiastically. Some held noses & voted. But the coalition all agreed he was most likely to upset status quo in D.C. So they voted for him. Right now, Dems are very focused on eliminating #ElectoralCollege that caused them to lose /11

Better off focusing on why they lost in first place. How can Dems reach out to those who have been feeling ignored? How can they find middle ground? How can they focus on things that bring us together instead of things that drive us apart? How can they regain voters’ trust? /12

How can they run campaign more like FDR? If Dems find that nominee, they will win in a landslide. Similarly, Rs don’t have to be stuck in world where barely win. They, too, should find middle ground. How can they build coalitions? Earn trust? Reward = Reagan-like landslide /13

I wish that everyone would quit going off into their partisan corners. Quit pointing fingers at the other side. Quit blaming #ElectoralCollege for your party’s own failures. What did your own party do wrong or right in 2016? /14

1st party to take hard look inward & fix its own flaws will start winning again. In landslides. We’ve been here before. Aftr Civil War, country was sharply divided bw North & South. Because of #ElectoralCollege, both political parties were forced to move past that division /15

Pretty much whether they wanted to or not! Dems in South simply couldn’t win w/o reaching a hand across the aisle. Rs could win in reliance on their safe areas, but just barely. Both sides had incentives to look at own mistakes, figure out how to build better coalitions. /16

By the 1930s, of course, Dems were winning in repeated landslides. The lesson? Remember that we live in a big, diverse country! Don’t force people into one-size-fits-all thinking. THAT is the lesson the #ElectoralCollege has taught over and over again, throughout our history. /17

Getting rid of the system now, when we are so angry and divided…. Well, it’s the worst possible solution. We’ll be stuck in this angry place forever. We are better off trying to remember why we have the #ElectoralCollege in first place. End of tweetstorm. /18

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Copenhagen Harbour By Moonlight
Johan Christian Dahl

So...some asshole posted a really crappy piece of art yesterday. Hopefully this will be partial compensation* for the hideousness of it. When I find the culprit he will be dealt with...harshly!

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The Morning Report - 3/21/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Thursday and after going an entire winter without so much as a sniffle, I come down with something before the first full day of spring is even over. Oh well, let's get right to the links.

Immigration: The illegal alien animal who murdered Mollie Tibbetts is getting money to pay for an expert witness at his trial (corrected for accuracy, jjs) - on how to be an illegal alien and get away with murder, no doubt. Meanwhile the amount of money reported as remittances is huge, and if you were to slap a tax of say 90-95% on it, that might put a serious crimp in the incentive to invade the country in the first place as well as perhaps de-incentivizing the upwards of 30 million illegal aliens already here to remain. Meanwhile, Maine GOP honcho Nick Isgro is being smeared by the usual gang of Leftist scum for speaking the truth about the national crisis of open borders and while the SCOTUS ruling a few days back is a big win, we are still losing the war to preserve our national identity and sovereignty.

Democrat-Sanctioned Joo-Hatred: The anti-American front group known as MoveOn is calling on all Democrat 2020 prexy candidates to boycott AIPAC. And first out of the gate to take that call seriously appears to be "Blotto" O'Rourke who sees horns on Bibi's head and a halo over Abbas'. Feh. If none of this does not tell you that the driving forces in that party are officially and openly anti-Semitic, you're not paying attention. Finally, two pieces on the possibility of a "Jexodus," one from Daniel Greenfield and the other spotlighting the Jewish Maxim model (and total hottie) Elizabeth Pipko who has been taking flak for outing herself as not a braindead Leftist pod-person.

To politics where, starting off in Civil War 2.0 category, Meathead "Rob" Reiner continues the incitement of violence by comparing President Trump to cancer. And not unrelated, the rabid ignoramus is linked to a cabal that is engaging with the same players to continue to pimp collusion propaganda to a more-than-eager media for immediate dissemination.

Looking at the Democrat Scandal Sheet, an octogenarian film-flam man may be behind bars for the rest of his life for bilking gullible Bernie and Beto boosters out of big bucks and then trying to pull a Bialystock and Bloom on them, while No-Shot Jello-Brain Gillibrand stammers and stutters out a lame excuse about her aiding and abetting the sexual abusers among her key staff.

The big story in politics, which is really just the coming out of the closet, if you will, is the Democrats full-throated pushing for the abolition of the electoral college and the packing of the SCOTUS among other things as a means to secure permanent political power. They know, as we do, that even in today's fractured society, they cannot easily advance their agenda electorally or even legislatively. So do away with the safeguards that protect against majoritarianism and essentially, America will be ruled by Santa Monica and the Upper West Side. Forever. In any case, as the lead article illustrates, all of these schemes require a Constitutional amendment, but that presupposes a) Democrat States and leaders abiding by the Constitution and b) a John Roberts-led SCOTUS that will do its duty and strike down these attempts to overthrow the process.

Elsewhere, despite all of this, the latest polls show Trump handily beating Beto and Bernie and the RNC made a massive haul in campaign bucks last month, Donna Brazile hated McCain before she loved him, Palsi Pelosi tries to tamp down the impeachment talk, No-Shot Gillibrand deflects from her own slimy behavior by promising free money and citizenship to illegal alien invaders, Tank Abrams (the poor man's Lauren Hutton) is still bitching and moaning, Andrew "Out-the-Ying" Yang is one sick pup, Rabbi Fischer on Kellyanne Conway's domestic disturbance, V.D. Hanson on Trump's 2020 outlook and two fine essays on the totalitarian progressive menace.

Mueller/Congressional Coup: McStain was instrumental in the collusion hoax and the attempt to revoke Jared Kushner's security clearance.

Abortion: Big crowds expected for Illinois anti-baby killing rally, abortion is going to be murder on 2020 Dem prospects, of all people, Kermit Gosnell has misgivings on legalized third trimester infanticide, and a feminizazi is caught stealing crosses from a pro-life display.

First Amendment and Fake News Fakery: The National Laughingstock Washington Post lets Turk Turdogan, the world's biggest jailer of journalists, write a vile op-ed, CNN spouts utter lies about the electoral college and James Madison, Jeffrey Lord on the Tu-Ca persecution, and two essays on breaking up Big Brother Big Tech.

Guns: The tone-deaf hypocrisy of the Colorado AG is staggering; calls for the firing of sheriffs who refuse to confiscate guns in violation of our second amendment while the country is lousy with sanctuary cities and states for allowing illegal alien criminals to roam freely. Get fucked, jerk-off.

Foreign Desk: An Indian oil company is flouting our embargo on Venezuela, Mexico's Obrador is steering that country towards Venezuelan doom (if it ain't already there), 2020 Dems are hot and horny to allow the Farsis to nuke up, and more on the Poland holocaust dust-up. Meanwhile a US general is risking his career by telling the truth about identity politics.

We-All-Slam-For-I-Slam: Malkin exposes CAIR for the terrorist-enablers they are and "Bro-Fo" Omar votes against a bill allowing insurance companies to deny claims to relatives of terrorists. Shocking.

Domestically, the IG reveals the DoJ covered up for a rotten turd with an FBI badge, some hope for reform with the new FDA commissioner and let's expand the welfare state even more with family leave - not. Meanwhile, the widening of the Panama Canal kneecaps the economic and sometimes political stranglehold that west coast longshoremen's unions have on Asian trade.

Crime and Punishment: Chi-Com national sentenced for pimping killer pills, a look at leftist prosecutors and their undoing of law and order in big cities and Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger half of the DC terrorist sniper duo is up for parole. What will SCOTUS do?

Education: The incoming USC chancellor led the war on Confederate monuments at UNC, a twist on reparations as Harvard being sued for using pictures of slaves, the case against a leftist college forcing a conservative student to participate in activism heads to court and Chiquita Khruschev AOC is in hot water again, this time for attending a conference to end standardized testing and lying about it.

Red Greens: Hack-in-black Obama stooge puts kibosh on Wyoming oil drilling, US cities ending the money-wasting recycling scam, the journal Science goes full Lysenko, and 10 years after the Climate-Gate scandal, global warming is all but debunked. Meh, the story was mostly embargoed by the agitprop media and it's still an article of faith by the Donkey Chompers set.

Feminazism and Transgender Psychosis: British authorities threaten to take an autistic teen away from parents if they refuse to cut off his penis and put him in panties and garter belts.

Hither and Yon: Christian Toto ponders the Left's reaction to Best of Enemies, a look at Shrill in context to abortion, the long and horrid rap sheet of the SPLC and Socialism's bloody body count. And still counting.

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

BORDER WALL, MIGRANT INVASION, AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Mollie Tibbetts Granted $3,200 in Taxpayer Money for Expert Witness
  
• Remittances to Countries Sending Many Illegal Immigrants Hit a Record $120 Billion
  
• Maine GOP Leader Attacked for Opposing Open Borders
  
• Immigration: The Big Lies
  
• At SCOTUS This Week, Conservatives Won an Immigration Battle But Continue to Lose the War

  OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED DEMOCRAT PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM
  

• Anti-American Front Group MoveOn Calls For 2020 Democrats to Boycott AIPAC
  
• Freshman Dem Rep Max Rose "Horrified" by "Bro-Fo" Omar's Anti-Semitic Comments
  
• "Blotto" Beto: Netanyahu "Sided With Racists," But Terrorist-Supporting Abbas Only "Ineffectual"
  
• Greenfield: The Case for "Jexodus"
  
• Meet the Maxim Model Leading the "Jexodus" Movement

  CIVIL WAR 2.0
  

• Meat-Head Reiner: Best Birthday Gift for My 97 Year-Old Dad Would Be "Removal of the White House Cancer"

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  

• 80-Year-Old Man Raises $250,000 For Bernie and Beto... Buys Mercedes Instead, Feds Say (zombie Max Bilaystock is a Democrat? - jjs)
  
• Gillibrand Acknowledges "Human Errors" in Staff Sexual Misconduct Investigation

  POLITICS
  

• Democrat 2020 Hopefuls Back 4 Policies That Require Constitutional Amendments
  
• The Electoral College Still Makes Sense Because We're Not a Democracy
  
• Joe Bidet Called Court Packing a "Bonehead Idea" During 1983 Hearing
  
• Trump Leads Beto and Bernie By Double Digits With White Working-Class Voters
  
• Fox'd Up: Donna Brazile Trashed John McCain While He Was Alive, Now She's His Biggest Fan
  
• Palsi Pelosi Won't Comment On Potential DeBolshevik Prexy Run
  
• RNC Crushed February Fundraising Records, Raising $14.6 Million Last Month
  
• Palsi Pelosi Considers Impeachment Talk "a Gift" to Trump
  
• Gillibrand: Social Security, Pathway to Citizenship Should Be Rights For Illegal Alien "Immigrants"
  
• "Tank" Abrams Says She Spent Days After Election Loss Plotting: "Revenge Can Be Very Cathartic" (penance and liposuction too, tubbo - jjs)
  
• Democrat Candidate Andrew Yang's 8 Most Bizarre Policy Proposals
  
• Rabbi Fischer: Really, There Is Something About George Conway That Does Not Add Up
  
• "Progressive" = The New Nazi
  
• V.D. Hanson: Can Trump Win Again in 2020?
  
• How Do You Solve a Problem like Chiquita Khruschev AOC?

  SPYGATE, MUELLER WITCH HUNT, DEEP STATE, CONGRESSIONAL COUP
  

• McCain's Key Role in Fueling Post-Election Trump-Russia Hysteria
  
• The Kushner Security Clearance Noise

  ABORTION
  

• Illinois Crowds Protest Radical Abortion Bills
  
• Imprisoned Abortion Butcher Kermit Gosnell Has Doubts About Spread of Dems' Third Trimester Infanticide Laws
  
• 2020 Dems Alienating Voters With Abortion
  
• FemiNazi Caught Stealing Crosses From Pro-Life Display... Then the Cops Show Up

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG TECH BROTHER
  

• Washington Post Prints Op-Ed from Turkey Turdogan, World's Top Jailer of Journalists
  
• Eager to Please Democrats, CNN Lies About James Madison, Electoral College
  
• Lord: Tucker Carlson and the Battle for Freedom
  
• Blankenship Is Right: Sue the Mainstream Media Out of Existence
  
• Information Darkness Is Coming, Unless...

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• Colorado AG: Sheriffs Who Will Not Enforce Gun Confiscation "Should Resign" (what about immigration laws, pal? - jjs)

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  

• Reliance Sends Fuel From India, Europe to Venezuela to Sidestep US sanctions
  
• New Mexi-Prexy Steering Country on Venezuelan Path to Doom
  
• 2020 Democrats Want to Make the Iran Deal Great Again
  
• Poland's Holocaust Complicity: Responding to Professor Radzilowski

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  

• Lt. Gen. MacFarland: "Identity Politics" in Military and Society is a "Cancer"

  ISLAM, TERRORISM, SHARIA, DHIMMITUDE
  

• "Bro-Fo" Omar Voted Against Bill to Let Insurance Companies Deny Payouts to Terrorists' Relatives
  
• Malkin: Never Forget CAIR's Dirty Deeds

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  

• More Common Sense, Less Nanny in New FDA Commissioner
  
• IG: DoJ Declined to Prosecute FBI Agent Who Worked for FBI Contractor, Filed False Financial Disclosures, Sexted on FBI Phone
  
• Americans Want a Welfare State, So Paid Leave Should Be Done the Least Stupid Way (how about weaning off the government teat instead of growing an extra nipple? - jjs)

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  

• America's Highest Paid Union Faces Existential Risk From Widened Panama Canal

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  

• Chinese National Sentenced for Plan to Distribute Illegal Sports Supplement
  
• "Justice" for Whom?
  
• Will SCOTUS Reduce the Sentence of Terrorist Murderer Lee Boyd Malvo?

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  

• Incoming USC Prexy Was UNC Chancellor Embroiled In Swift Confederate Monument Controversy
  
• Harvard Sued For Allegedly Profiting Off Photos of Slaves
  
• Case of College Forcing Conservative to Advocate Liberal Causes Now Going to a Jury
  
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC Attends NY Panel Encouraging Boycott of Standardized Tests

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  

• Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Wyoming Oil Lease Sale Over "Climate Change"
  
• US Cities Ending Costly Recycling Programs
  
• Major Science Journal Embraces Crackpot "Nature Rights" Movement
  
• 10 Years after Climategate, the Global Warming Fraud Is on Life Support

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  

• Brit Parents Refuse to Facilitate "Sex Change" of Autistic Son, So Authorities Threaten to Put Him In Foster Care

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  

• Toto: Will the Left Melt Down Over Best of Enemies?
  
• The Abortion Storyline In Lindy West's Shrill Shouts An Important Truth
  
• The SPLC's Scandalous History on Race
  
• Ignoring Socialism's Countless Corpses

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (3/20/19)

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How do you spell Karma? Chicken Pox, dumb ass.

When vaping is outlawed only vapors will be outlaws. San Francisco where needles are discarded on sidewalks and the streets filled with shit.

Once again Leftards make the case that single payer health care is ridiculous.

What came first the egg or the global warming. Settled science my ass.

Outstanding. Instead of being high energy and adventurous, this shop will be fat and lazy. Kickstarter to unionize.

The nice thing about living in America's Dairyland is I don't have to eat this weird shit. Wonder if CBD will try this?

Once again I'm not cool. I'll keep my Bunn.

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PORT HURON, Mich. - A man who was allegedly attempting to transport meth from Montreal to Calgary was busted when his iPhone navigation took him to a border checkpoint - Port Huron's Blue Water Bridge.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspected a Canadian vehicle at the bridge on Wednesday, driven by a Canadian citizen, Constantine Xethalis. Two others were in the vehicle.

After they were unable to provide proof of citizenship, the vehicle was searched. Officers found approximately 10 pounds of meth in tablet form.

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Life is a beautiful thing. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Conjoined Twin Sisters Successfully Separated And Can't Stop Snuggling

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne clinicians have successfully separated conjoined twins Nima and Dawa in a six-hour operation.

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The Fiercely Heterosexual Cory Booker Wants to Talk About The (Checks Notes) Woman He Loves -- And He Chooses The Perfect Venue for Gossiping About Heterosexual Relationships

—Ace of Spades

Yeah so here's the clip from the Ellen DeGeneres show.

The "strictly mishly" Cory Booker even laughs about the possibility of getting married to a (checks notes again) woman before or during his completely, laughably hypothetical presidency.

Boy this Down-Low Brother sure Found Love with a (checks notes for the third time) woman just at the right time, huh?

Thanks to Jane D'Oh for the story and "strictly mishly."

The couple will soon announce which store they'll open their gift registry at. They first have to find a place that honors gifts given ironically or sarcastically.

Credit: I knew I hadn't come up with "The Fiercely Heterosexual Cory Booker," but I forgot who did. My apologies -- that's the Deplorable Jay Guevara's "joke."

Yeahhhh... "joke."

Leftist Media Fact-Checker Who Falsely, And Absurdly, Spread Lie That US Marines Tattoo Was a Nazi Tattoo and Smeared an ICE Agent Now Hired by NYU Journalism School to... Teach a Class Called "Reporting on the Far Right"

—Ace of Spades

Perfect.

This was the woman who looked at the disabled veteran seen working for ICE here:

..and retweeted deranged actor Ron Perlman's hysterical, ignorant claim that this was an Iron Cross tattoo on his elbow.

Um, no. That's not what an Iron Cross looks like.

Personally, it took me three seconds to recognize that cross as the very-common cross called a "St. Florian Cross" seen on thousands of firefighter's helmets and in police logos.

And, apparently, serving as unit logos for troops in Afghanistan.

But she blared out to the world he was a Secret Nazi.

A fact-checker.

Who doesn't bother checking facts.

Even when working as a fact-checker for The New Yorker, which, once upon a time, prided itself on its meticulous and almost-unerring fact-checking.

And now she'll be teaching a class on "reporting on the far right."

Will "correctly identifying common shapes" be a prerequisite for the course?

Will she instruct students on how to identify Nazis with a 100,000% success rate (that is, you identify 1000 times as many Nazis as you actually see)?

They're not permitted to fail. They don't even have to pay a penalty. (This "journalist" was immediately hired by Media Matters to continue her nonpartisan journ0lisming after her firing from the New Yorker.)

Now a J-school deems her eminent enough to teach a class on "Reporting on the Far Right." Does that include the part about recklessly -- libelously -- callously -- branding people as Nazis without the briefest moment of consideration?

The Clique -- the Guild -- the Gilded Class -- the Meritless Meritocracy -- gets its jobs and promotions based on politics and connections and racial/sexual calculus, not on achievement or talent.

It's a system that they all benefit from, so they'll go down fighting to protect it absolutely.

They know that they must all hang together or they shall surely hang apart.

And speaking of this miserable, entitled, unfirable class:

That's super-progressive, super-concerned-about-the-poor-and-disadvantaged and super-interested in "fairness" William Macy and Felicity Huffman showing off their I-Voted-for-Hillary stickers. It was probably about the time of this picture's taking that they were scheming how best to game the system and lie and bribe the gatekeepers of the Gilded Class to let their deficient daughter into a somewhat-above-average college.

LOL: And now Twitter has apparently banned Twitter-addicted absurd cuck John Podhoretz for remarking upon this fine "journalist."

I can't object to the censorship here -- John Podhoretz is one of those eat-me-last Pet Conservatives who applauds when other people are deplatformed.

It's good to see his fat ass booted off. Give him something to think about.

And maybe give him some free time to do some squats.

Update: Lizzy writes:

Talia [Lavin] is also the one who was weaving all sorts of complex conspiracy theories about the true meaning of "learn to code" - and likely was a prime reason that phrase resulted in insta-suspension of twitter accounts.

I can't confirm all of that but as this thread shows, she certainly was obsessive about pushing to get "Learn to Code" branded as coordinated far-right hate speech.

Here she is pushing the "harassment" angle.

She really made her own cottage industry of it, writing for the far leftwing New Republic that Learn to Code might be connected to (gasp!) GamerGate.

And then people started getting banned, automatically, for speaking the Forbidden Words "Learn to Code."

Scandal-Besieged Alexandria Donkey-Chompers Removed From Board of Justice Democrat PAC in Wake of Revelations About Failure to Disclose Key Information

—Ace of Spades

I'm racist for linking this but you're racist and sexist for reading it.

Loud and ignorant, ignorant and loud.

And corrupt.

Gee, who could have guessed that socialism would involve slushfunds and self-dealing?

Democratic Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and her top aide are no longer board members of the outside PAC credited with orchestrating her political rise, according to a corporate document filed Friday to a Washington, D.C., agency.

The New York Democrat and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, joined the board of Justice Democrats in December 2017, according to the political action committee’s website. It also said the two held "legal control over the entity" at the same time it was playing a key role in supporting Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign prior to her shock victory over incumbent Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in June 2018.

Cortez says she was actually removed from the board in 2018. But only now are the documents being filed.

Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti were officially removed from Justice Democrats’ board on March 15, according to a corporate document filed that day to the Washington, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.

It's unclear why it took Justice Democrats more than eight months to formally remove Ocasio-Cortez from its board. The PAC did not respond to a request for comment.

Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that she and Chakrabarti controlled Justice Democrats while it simultaneously supported her primary campaign.

Ted Koppel: Trump's Not Imagining Things, The Liberal Media Are Out to Get Him

—Ace of Spades

Obvious, but it's a statement against liberal media interest so it counts more in court.

"I'm terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about the Washington Post these days, we're not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago," Koppel noted to journalist and author Marvin Kalb earlier this month. "We are not talking about the Washington Post of 50 years ago. We're talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States."

Koppel added that "we have things appearing on the front page of the New York Times right now that never would have appeared 50 years ago. Analysis, commentary on the front page."

So [Trump's] perception that the establishment press is out to get him-- doesn't mean that great journalism is not being done; it is -- but the notion that most of us look upon Donald Trump as being an absolute fiasco, he's not mistaken in that perception. And he's not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, describe themselves as belonging to "the resistance"? What does that mean? That's not said by people who consider themselves reporters, objective reporters of facts. That's the kind of language that's used by people who genuinely believe — and rather suspect with some justification -- that Donald Trump is bad for the United States ... and the sooner he's out of office the better they will like it.

Koppel added to Kalb that "we are not the reservoir of objectivity that I think we were."

Video of his remarks at the link.

Shame Is Part of the Kink, Continued: Kellyanne Conway Blasts Own Husband For Claiming That He Has Diagnosed Trump with Narcissistic Personality Disorder

—Ace of Spades

Look, if we're going to start naming politicians and "journalists" who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, we're going to be here all day.

Jim Acosta? Do you have any thoughts to contribute once you get done pushing that 20 year old woman out of the way of your camera-line?

The cucking here is deliciously shameful. I don't know if it's Kellyanne cucking her husband, or Trump cucking Kellyanne by directing her to throw her husband under the bus or what.

I don't know if we're watching the end of a marriage in trouble or what.

I don't know if Shame Is Part of the Kink, but Noted Experts at the Bulwark tell me it's totally a huge part of it.

Trump tweeted this, blasting George Conway after his 200th attack on Trump:

So now Kellyanne Conway is asked about Trump's response, and she says it's well-justified.

This is really getting weird now. People are going to start whispering.

Dana Loesch: I'm Sorry That Jake Tapper Wasn't Man Enough to Handle Deserved Public Criticism Without Throwing a Snit-Fit

—Ace of Spades

LOL, Dana. That's adorable.

Bro, do you even know Jake Tapper?

If you missed the background to this, see these two tweets or this post from yesterday.

The short version is:

The Norman Lear Center gave Fake Jake and FakeNews CNN a "Cronkite Award" for "advancing the public dialogue" or some bullshit for staging their Nazi-esque hate rally against Republicans, guns, and Dana Loesch, and Dana Loesch criticized Fake Jake and Fake News CNN for the event. And, I guess implicitly, for accepting the award. (As the New York Times gladly accepted Nobel prizes for Walter Duranty's Soviet press releases.)

Then Fake Jake reverted to his natural state of being The Biggest Bitch on Twitter.

Fake Jake is the most notorious Twitter Bitch in the world. Even Ben Smith noted his infamy among the journalist class:

one of the great secrets to his professional success is his all-out defense of his reputation on all fronts at all times: Before the Tappergram about the dossier, I'd heard from him more commonly about stray tweets from BuzzFeed staffers about everything from the poop cruise (his own coverage, he wanted to point out, had been serious and policy-focused) to the usual arguments over ratings. No tweet about Tapper, not even a subtweet, falls without Tapper's notice.

"I don't have time for your high school drama club," he said recently in his fourth rapid-fire tweet to a BuzzFeed News reporter who had botched, then quickly corrected, a Tapper quote.

Perhaps the best evidence of how fiercely Tapper protects his reputation is that -- despite his irascibility being a kind of Washington legend -- I can't find any reference to it in a series of recent glowing profiles of the CNN anchor. These profiles tend to feature a relaxed-looking Tapper, surrounded by red, white, and blue memorabilia. Perhaps his feet are up on his desk. Tapper's friends and acquaintances were rather surprised to learn, from the lede of a recent Times profile, that "Jake Tapper doesn't seem to get rattled easily."

Some of Tapper's colleagues and Twitter enemies find the heated private responses to criticism over the top, a sign that he takes himself too seriously.

This Twitter thread collects up many of Fake Jake's most disgraceful moments at the hate rally.

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh to be Released in May;
Has Not Renounced Islamism

—Ace of Spades

Great.

John Walker Lindh, a former American Taliban militant convicted in 2002 for supporting the terrorist organization, is due to be freed in May.

The former Islamist fighter, dubbed "Detainee 001 in the war on terror," was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan. Then just 20 years old, he was among a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.

Within a year, Walker Lindh was convicted of supporting the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison -- even as some hardliners urged authorities to consider treason charges that could have resulted in the death penalty.

He may not be our problem, primarily. Somehow he acquired Irish citizenship (!!!) and plans to move there after his release.

Jeff Bezos and His Media Allies Pushed a Fake Dossier Alleging Trump-Saudi Collusion to Interfere With the Results of His Dick-Pics
And Yet The Media Refuses Any Accountability for Even More Fake News

—Ace of Spades

Flawless Male Logic suggests the alternate headline, Jeff Bezos and the Mystery of the Dirty Sanchez.

Byron York, who is definitely no cuck but who unfortunately works for the Cuck Emporium Washington Examiner:

Sometimes stories are simpler than they're made out to be. That appears to be the case with Jeff Bezos.

When the National Enquirer reported that Bezos, the Amazon founder who is the world's richest man, was having an extramarital affair and had sent racy texts, including photos of his penis, to his girlfriend, Bezos assembled a high-priced legal and PR team to mount an aggressive defense.

All of a sudden, sympathetic commentators began suggesting Bezos had been hacked. There was word that a "government entity" had gotten hold of the texts and photos. There was dark speculation of international intrigue, that Saudi Arabia might have used the Enquirer to target Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, in retaliation for the Post's coverage of the murder of the columnist and Saudi regime critic Jamal Khashoggi. And of course, President Trump played some sort of behind-the-scenes role.

Bezos orchestrated it all, using his security consultant to feed information to his newspaper, and also writing a much-discussed personal statement published on Medium.

He then quotes Lawrence O'Donnell, Chuck Todd, and Chris Cuomo breathlessly "reporting" (repeating dictated lines, really) about "hacking" and possible "government entities" and of course the specter of Trump lurking in background.

Turns out, it was Michael Sanchez, the gossipy brother of Jeff Bezos' lover (who herself was gossipy and indiscreet about the affair, as mistresses jonesing for a Level Up tend to be).

Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Michael Sanchez, "a talent agent who has managed television pundits and reality-show judges" has also "long been a source for the Enquirer." And, according to the paper, Michael Sanchez sold the Bezos texts to the Enquirer for $200,000.

Imagine that. Mogul sends deeply private texts to gossipy L.A. girlfriend who has gossipy, fame-hungry brother, and somehow it gets out! No Saudis required.

So he hired a private dick to distract away from his public dick, and it turned out that distraction was fabricated fake news.

Jordan Shaechtel wants to know where the media's usual lecturing about Partisan Conspiracy Theories has suddenly gone off to.

“For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle [the Washington Post's reporting on the death of their "reporter," Qatari government agent Jamal Kashoggi] seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve,” Bezos said in promoting the evidence-free conspiracy theory that Saudi Arabia was involved in his personal affairs.

With each day that passed, Bezos appeared to become more and more convinced that the publicizing of his extramarital affair was the result of a Trump-Saudi-National Enquirer collusion conspiracy. They were all out to get him, for a variety of reasons, he concluded.

As recently as this past weekend, a private investigator hired by Mr. Bezos was telling reporters (including individuals who work for Bezos' Washington Post) that it was possible the Trump administration itself had "hacked" his text messages.

All three parties alleged in the Bezos conspiracy theory immediately and unequivocally rejected the idea that they were involved at all. Nonetheless, the government “hacking” and Trump-Saudi conspiracy theory set off a firestorm in the media, with unrelenting coverage on CNN and MSNBC, along with countless legacy media reporters and NeverTrump commentators parroting the completely unproven claims trotted out by the Bezos machine. Some commentators, such as CNN's Don Lemon, even celebrated the conspiratorial allegations as a "boss move."

CNN's @DonLemon: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the National Enquirer’s publisher attempted to extort him, so he pulled a "boss move," a move "only the wealthiest man in the entire world could make" https://t.co/MlX69ZkPvK pic.twitter.com/DrgMgbsP6R

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) February 8, 2019

BTW, Shaechtel's last paragraph there is loaded to links of leftist media and NeverTrump figures (but I repeat myself) spreading this evidence-free, motivated-reasoning conspiracy theory around.

The media and the NeverTrumpers are constantly preening that among the many, many, many things that make them better and smarter is their shared ability to see through the silly wack-a-doo conspiracy theories that appeal to Hobbits and Deplorables, and see the world as it really is.

They constantly run negative stories about the right's "conspiracy theories," both actual conspiracy theories without evidence (the Sandy Hook false flag nonsense) and legitimate questions that are deemed Unutterable because they contradict cherished leftist/NeverTrump narratives (such as Hillary's guilt in the email matter, or unresolved questions about the actual state of her health).

And yet they run with their own conspiracy theories with shameless abandon.

No preening from AllahPundit about his liberal palz' and NeverTrump buddies' eagerness to embrace this conspiracy theory?

Why does the preening suddenly stop, Old Buddy? Is it no fun to dunk on NeverTrump hobbits and media allies in the War on Trump?

No hectoring from Chuck Todd about his own willingness to spread fabricated #Fakenews on behalf of a political and media ally in the middle of a sex scandal?

No comment from "Media Analyst" Little Brian Stelter about CNN's eagerness to peddle fake news fabricated by owned-and-operated "investigators" looking to make a political impact?

Oh that's right -- 90% of CNN's content the past three years has been fake news fabricated by owned-and-operated "investigators" looking to make a political impact.

No questions about whether the Washington Post itself was encouraged, or thought that it would be appreciated, to pursue their owner's pet conspiracy theory? Or avoid reportage which would debunk the conspiracy theory?

No apologies? No accountability?

No simple explanation as to how this happened, how this slipped by people's internal mental gatekeepers?

No? Nothing at all?

Good thread below.

More: Schaechtel wrote another piece about this, containing even more media figures spreading Bezos' Fake Dossier on Trump-Saudi Collusion to Interfere in the Results of His Dick-Pics.

It ends thus:

By all accounts, Jeff Bezos invented a Trump-Pecker-Saudi collusion conspiracy theory out of thin air. Not even the world's richest man should be allowed to get away with spreading incriminating hoaxes. After all, "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

Group Controlled by the Diane Feinstein Aide, Dan Jones, Who Got $50 Million from Leftwing Billionaires to Continue the FusionGPS Russia Sham, Floods the Media With Fresh Talking Points Every Day, and Get This, The Media Loves "Reporting" It

—Ace of Spades

The media wants you to think they're diligent investigators into the truth.

What they really are just frontmen for Democrat political operatives -- and sometimes paid off by those political operatives.

Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to derail Donald Trump’s campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached.

The effort has successfully placed a series of questionable stories alleging secret back channels and meetings between Trump associates and Russian spies, while influencing related investigations and reports from Congress.

The operation’s nerve center is a Washington-based nonprofit called The Democracy Integrity Project, or TDIP. Among other activities, it pumps out daily "research" briefings to prominent Washington journalists, as well as congressional staffers, to keep the Russia "collusion" narrative alive.

TDIP is led by Daniel J. Jones, a former FBI investigator, Clinton administration volunteer and top staffer to California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. It employs the key opposition-research figures behind the salacious and unverified dossier: Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Its financial backers include the actor/director Rob Reiner and billionaire activist George Soros.

The project's work has been largely shrouded in mystery. But a months-long examination by RealClearInvestigations, drawn from documents and more than a dozen interviews, found that the organization is running an elaborate media-influence operation that includes driving and shaping daily coverage of the Russia collusion theory, as well as pushing stories about Trump in the national media that attempt to tie the president or his associates to the Kremlin.

The group also feeds information to FBI and congressional investigators, and then tells reporters that authorities are investigating those leads. The tactic adds credibility to TDIP's pitches, luring big media outlets to bite on stories. It mirrors the strategy federal authorities themselves deployed to secure FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign: citing published news reports of investigative details their informants had leaked to the media to bolster their wiretap requests.

Five days a week, TDIP emails a newsletter to influential Democrats and prominent Beltway journalists under the heading "TDIP Research" -- which summarizes the latest "collusion" news, and offers "points of interest" to inspire fresh stories regarding President Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.

Recipients of the TDIP reports include staffers at the New York Times and Washington Post and investigative reporters at BuzzFeed, ProPublica and McClatchy, as well as news producers at CNN and MSNBC, according to a source familiar with the project's email distribution list. Democratic aides on Capitol Hill also subscribe to the newsletter.

...

Jones' project doesn't just spin the news. Its more ambitious goal is to make news by essentially continuing the Clinton-funded investigation into alleged Trump/Russia ties that began in 2016, and then sharing findings with news outlets, congressional investigators and federal agents.

Jones has hired Fusion GPS, the same Washington firm co-founded by former journalist-turned-opposition-researcher Simpson that was paid more than $1 million by lawyers for the Hillary Clinton campaign to collect information damaging to Trump during the 2016 election.

Jones is also paying Steele, another anti-Trump partisan, to continue to dig up dirt on the president.

...

Simpson and Steele have a history of feeding the FBI and Congress unsubstantiated allegations and rumors, sending investigators down rabbit holes. They have also planted several anti-Trump stories in the media that have proved unverifiable, unfounded, or just plain false.

Cleta Mitchell, who says a McClatchy article about her, the NRA and Russia was a "complete fabrication" pushed by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.

These include a McClatchy newspapers story asserting that "NRA attorney Cleta Mitchell" warned during the 2016 campaign that Russians had infiltrated the NRA and were using it to launder illegal donations to Trump. Mitchell called the article a "complete fabrication," noting that she hadn’t worked for the NRA in a decade and had no contact with it in 2016. She claims Simpson personally shopped the bogus story to McClatchy. Her allegation was bolstered by senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who revealed in recently released closed-door congressional testimony that Simpson fed him the same rumor after the election and asked him to pass it on to his colleagues at the FBI.

Simpson also appears to have been the source behind another discredited McClatchy story about Trump attorney Michael Cohen traveling to Prague during the campaign to hatch a plot with Kremlin officials to hack Clinton campaign emails.

Bonus:

Though Jones is reported to have begun his opposition research project after Trump took office, Senate Judiciary Committee investigators suspect he may also have been involved in the Clinton campaign's 2016 efforts to create the dossier and push its allegations to the FBI and media. The FBI used the unverified political document as a basis for securing secret wiretaps on Trump campaign figures.

Read the whole thing. It's long but it's a very interesting look into how the media really operates.

I mean, apart when they're collecting awards for staging Naziesque hate rallies against Dana Loesch.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Since Donald Trump was elected in 2016, various Democrats have proposed to abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, assign electors according to the popular vote, expand the Supreme Court, set term limits on the Supreme Court, lower the voting age to 16. So their strategy is, we're losing, so we need to change all of the rules. But it'll be great when Trump wins the popular vote in 2020; their backpedaling will be enough to make Niagara Falls run backwards."

Where Hillary's Voters Live:

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Or, Put Another Way:

Yoots:

Who's that on the left? Is he the kid who smacked the Australian politician in the head with an egg and was wrestled to the ground? And he got $20K for that? Really?

Hooray For Bollywood:

(click for bigger)Who is she? Answer: Bollywood Actress Riya Sen<--
Here's another great pic.

And For the' Ettes, A Little Snake:

Monday's celebs: Bella Thorne and a younger, nerdier Harrison Ford.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact FenelonSpoke, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at

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If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to her.

Job Needs:

Kallisto has part-time job. She thanks everybody for prayers. Please continue to pray as she needs a full-time job.

Fenelon asks for prayers for “D” for a job. May be evicted, and can’t pay his bills.

Patrick and his girlfriend Lisa need jobs. Patrick would like a job as a technical writer or editor.
Lisa is looking for a job in business development or business process engineering roles

3/13 Calm Mentor came across a job which meets the job experience which he had done for 15 years. Asked for extra prayers regarding this job.

3/3-Olddogin MO-Wife has pancreatic and liver cancer. Was in hospital for a while because of dehydration and food not getting through. May be a candidate for surgery. Please continue to keep her in prayer for complete healing. And skill and wisdom for doctors as they are consulted about treatment

3/6-Notsothoreau asked for prayers for friends’s grandniece ,Zoe who is 7 years old. Zoe had ruptured appendix and colon, but should be able to come home soon with a pic line for medicine. Thanks for prayers so far. Prayer for complete healing for Zoe well as strength for mom who has not left the hospital, dad who used up his sick time and for grandma who has been caring for other three kids

Mrs. Blutarski’s father died February 17th. Prayers for Mrs. B, her mother and the rest of the family and friends

JT’s cousin who had pancreatic cancer has died. Please keep her family and friends in prayer for strength and comfort

3/4-PugMahon’s brother in law Bill’s son has committed suicide. Please keep the family in prayer for strength and comfort after this great loss.

Continuing requests:

-Prayers for rickl tumor has grown Prayers for complete healing

-Cheribebe asks for “extra prayer boost from horde.” Insurance dragging heels about new chemo treatment and bills are rolling in and finances are snug. Prayers for healing and that situations and insurance may be worked for her benefit.

-Prayers for Slapweasel, Parents have moved in with him. Mom had stroke in June. Dad has dementia and doesn’t know where he is sometimes, Slap is caring for them so he needs prayer as well He also needs a donor for a liver transplant.

-BuckIV need prayer for his sister also has breast cancer which has metastasized to bones. Also, Buck himself asked for prayers that bladder cancer not progress to worse type.

-Renningantx asked for prayers for his uncle Jimmy who had been cancer free for 12 years but aggressive cancer has returned and he has a doctors apt this week. Prayers for complete healing.

-LadyL asked for prayers for healing for a dear friend, Jean, who has had a recurrence of Mantle Cell Lymphoma, which is an aggressive cancer and hard to treat

-JQ’s father has advanced prostrate cancer and has been having a lot of pain, JQ works full time and so needs to find a place where dad can be cared for.

1/16-Troyrisers mother, Judy has inoperable lung cancer. Please pray for a peaceful passage.

1/16-NorthernLurker needs job or business, sense of direction, and vision and ambition in terms of future occupation.

2/20-Awilda’s son Gabe is in need of a bone marrow transplant

Updates:

1/30-Backwards Gal is back home after scary medical issues Backwards Boy is having financial issues because of gigs being cancelled. Please pray for that situation as well. Thanks.

New requests:

1/17- TonyPete asked for prayers for his granddaughters and daughter caught in bad family situation that has no immediate relief. Prayers for them and that daughter might gain wisdom to do good and not harm.

2/1-LadyL asked for prayers for daughter of a friend. After giving birth several weeks ago she had a stroke. She is conscious and has had breathing tube removed ,but has no sensation on one side of her body. Prayers for complete healing

2/8-Tonypete asks for payers for his friend Michele. Michele's daughter eldest daughter died as the result of injuries suffered from a fall on Feb. 5 during a hiking accident. Daughter had four children aged 9-15, Also his friend's youngest daughter was diagnosed with cancer on the same day that the eldest daughter died. Prayers for healing for daughter and strength for Michele and family

2/12-Votermom asked for prayers of healing and help for her friend myiq (who has the Crawfisher blog) and is not getting good care from VAAlso asked for prayers for friend Mothy's sister who has 4th stage lung cancer.

2/12-Anonymous horde member asked for prayers for his community in NH. They had two boys die within 2 weeks. One 12 year old drowned after crossing frozen river on his way home from school. Another boy. age 14, committed suicide within two weeks of death of first boy. Families and friends and community are in shock and hurting. Horde member asked for prayer that the Lord God would send down Holy Spirit and bring comfort and healing

2/12-SMH reports that his daughter is "travelling down a dark path and taking children with her." SMH asks that her daughter's heart of stone be turned to flesh and that she receive conversion to accept Jesus as Lord

2/17 Prayers for-Jewell’s grandson’s wife-Carmen, who is in rehab for alcoholism and has a 1 year old child. She may be suffering from post-partum depression. Prayers for healing and recovery and for Jewell’s grandson and great-grandchild.

2/24-Navymom asked for prayers for grandson who looks skinny and not as well cared for as he might be.

2/24 prayers of Complete healing needed for Nora Elizabeth, great niece of Mrs. Leggy. Nora Elizabeth is a baby has brain tumors and will need a year of chemo at the least

2/26 Josephistan asked for prayers for his mom who has anxiety and of behavioral issues

3/4-Prayers for people in AL affected by tornado

3/7-Shibumi and Bozo Conservative newly married. Need rough places made smooth so that they can live together.

3/8-Theresa inFortWorth has a cyst on kidney. Was being referred to a nephrologist as a priority patient.

3/10-CaptainJosephaSabin had emergency pacemaker installed. Is now having dialysis Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It is very difficult. Might be able to discontinue dialysis. Prayers for end to panic attacks and complete healing.

3/10-KTY healing from stomach virus and tenacious fever.

3/12-TonyPete’s wife is having rheumatology and neurology issues. Praying for a lessening of painful, difficult symptoms and a way forward with doctors.

3/12-NorthernLurker needs money and job. Also asks for prayer in area of new relationships. Niece’s son, Josh, needs healing. Very troubled boy with numerous behavioral issues . Pray also that authorities do what is right for the family.

3/13-MPPPP, prayers that someone’s heart be softened and that reconciliation will take place.

3/13-Bicentennial Guy, mom and dad’s pug dog is very ill, has returning cancer. Has to be put down next week. Prayers for comfort and strength for his mom and dad and blaster who gave them the pug.

3/13-Josephistan, prayers for mom’s recovery and peace of mind and for strength for Josephistan so he can take care of her.

3/32-Blaster asks for prayers for his 17 year old son and 13 year old daughter who are depressed, anxious, and not doing well in school Blaster’s son won’t talk to him. For healing and help for Blaster and children.

3/13 Vic mentioned that he might have to go back in hospital for “same issues he had last year.” Prayers for Vic and family

3/13-Lurker (Christian’s) father-in-law died Monday, March 11 after a battle with prostrate cancer which metasticized. Asked for repose of his soul and comfort for Christian’s wife Karrie and sister Jennie.

3/15-Bete in reflection had pain in neck. Has cancer and one treatment but has some hope. Prayers for complete healing.

3/16-ibguy asks for prayers for Debbie K., wife of college roommate. She has early onset alsheimer’s. She is not yet 60. Needs prayers for healing.

3/19-Young Friend has GI issues. Was having a consultation with doctor on 3/20, probably getting a scope. Needs healing.

3/20-Hrothgar, aging sister-in-law, Elizabeth, failing physically and mentally. He doesn’t have resources to help her. Going day by day. Needs prayer for wisdom and direction for help for sister-in-law.

3/20-Fenelon asks for healing for son K., who has major mental issues.

3/20 Prayers for people in NE and other parts of the US dealing with terrible flooding

Wednesdays are days in which mothers in the horde and anyone else says special prayers for children of horde members

I have not heard from cjjr who had brain cancer and asked for prayers. It worries me when I don’t hear from people.

Please feel free to copy requests which you see on the board and send them to me. I am unable to be on the board all the time, even though it seems like I am, and so if people don’t tell me about prayer requests I may have no way of knowing. Thx and God bless!

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:

http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm

FenelonDirection18 at gmail dot com

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