Perverted ONT

—WeirdDave

When ladies need it bad, they have a go-to move:

I Remember When “Eat My Ass” Was Fighting Words

‘Edible Anus’ Company Makes Chocolate Molds of Your (Or a Loved One’s) Butthole

I wonder if there's an “asshole code” like the candy code, so you can tell which asshole is which? “Oooh, gimme that one it's full of cream!” or “Yuck! I got a coconut asshole”

And, of course in the delightful year of 2019, they have a strong social media presence:

“Pfffft! There was a hair in my chocolate”

Perverts All The Way Down

Are Pride Parades Kid-Friendly? Parents Say Children Can Handle The Kink

Tell me again how the left isn't trying to normalize pedophilia. And why shouldn't they? I believe that a great deal (not all, certainly, but a great deal) of one's sexual identity comes from the way in which they become aware of their sexual nature, and if that is done in the context of kinks or perversions than they will be more likely to incorporate those kinks or perversions into their own sexual lives. From a pervert's POV it's win/win.

CNN Finally Stopped Covering It Last Week

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

We has humans always seem to have a hard time accepting that a single individual can do something that has an impact far greater than their stature. JFK being assassinated was a seminal event in so many people's lives that they just can't believe that it was caused by one loser communist with an Italian rifle. It was too big, too important, it has to be a conspiracy, so they invent a cause that's on par with the effect. Same thing with 9/11. Here, the conclusion is that it was the pilot, acting alone, who, for whatever reason, depressurized the cabin killing everyone, flew for six more hours, then nosedived into the ocean. The bit on killing everyone is especially chilling:

An intentional depressurization would have been an obvious way—and probably the only way—to subdue a potentially unruly cabin in an airplane that was going to remain in flight for hours to come. In the cabin, the effect would have gone unnoticed but for the sudden appearance of the drop-down oxygen masks and perhaps the cabin crew’s use of the few portable units of similar design. None of those cabin masks was intended for more than about 15 minutes of use during emergency descents to altitudes below 13,000 feet; they would have been of no value at all cruising at 40,000 feet. The cabin occupants would have become incapacitated within a couple of minutes, lost consciousness, and gently died without any choking or gasping for air. The scene would have been dimly lit by the emergency lights, with the dead belted into their seats, their faces nestled in the worthless oxygen masks dangling on tubes from the ceiling.

We surrender control, or at least the illusion of control, over our own lives every time we step on a jetliner. It's scary to think that one madman could end our lives and we'd be helpless to stop it, but well, there ya go.

Gee-Haw Wimmy Diddle

I just wanted to type Gee-Haw Wimmy Diddle. I think I have a some new invective. “Gee-Haw Wimmy Diddle folks, don't just stand there, get moving!”

Rubbing the stick over the notches creates both vertical and horizontal vibrations, and leads to an elliptical motion of the nail in the center of a propeller, which begins to rotate. This is a Gee-Haw Wimmy Diddle https://t.co/IbcIMuiKHs [explanation: https://t.co/dHpgXY2W0C] pic.twitter.com/F8tUEBEqoa

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 20, 2019

Politics

Yes, Tariffs Make Stuff More Expensive, But Sometimes It’s Worth It

All the free trade absolutists (but only on us, donchakno) screaming about tariffs making stuff more expensive are missing the point. Of course they make stuff more expensive. Nobody is saying that they don't, but that's not the point. Tariffs are about leverage. What would they prefer? War?

The Alt-Right Is The Mirror Image Of The New Left

He describes the intersection of the two as “It helps to envision our political spectrum not as a line but as a circle. At one point in that circle, the alt-right and the progressive left meet and become of a piece.“ I've always felt a more useful political continuum from left to right is a line not a circle, but a line that measures individual freedom from government coercion. Thus the "far right" becomes pure anarchy, and the left encompasses all big govt totalitarian systems, be they fascist, communist, socialist, monarchical, theologian or whatever. The debate becomes where the optimal place to stop is (hint: It's pretty far to the right, but not all the way). Here, watch this helpful video(from the John Birch Society!):

Speaking of the John Birch society, here's their founder, Robert Welch:

In 1958 #RobertWelsh warned ALL abt the #NWO - still true today! We MUST STOP it! #AmericaFirstpic.twitter.com/UpecYUiRvF

— ������Lady De’Plorable������ (@LadyRedWave) June 19, 2019

Yeah, yeah, I get it. JBS, har, har, har. Now, with 60 years of hindsight, tell me where he was wrong. I'll wait.

Tonight's ONT brought to you by grandpa:

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GAINZZZ Thread

—Ace of Spades

As you probably know, because I never shut up about it, I went 27 1/2 days on an almost pure fast, no calories. The "almost" part is there because after my doctor scared me and told me to go off the fast, due to mild dehydration, I started breaking it with some bone broth and olives on day 23.

Then I decided I was wrong to break it and continued it, though after that, I did have two cups of bone broth a day to make sure I got my electrolytes in. Two cups of bone broth together are 80 calories. I bent the fast a little, but I don't think I really broke it.

The only other calories I've had were from sugar-free Metamucil every two or three days -- apparently 20-40 calories a serving. Soluble fiber, I think, while not digestible by your own processes, gets digested by your intestinal flora into butyrane and other short-chain fatty acids, which then enter your blood stream as actual nutrition.

Anyway, so, those small number of calories aside, no calories for 23 days, then 80 calories per day for the last four days.

I've had a few bad days -- I got dehydrated last Thursday and Friday -- and I've had the occasional... GI problems, but only occasionally and pretty lightly.

But some of the days I felt, no exaggeration the best I've felt that I can remember. Some days I've had very high energy and great optimism and a feeling of well-being. (I think that depression is pretty much just low energy, and good feelings and optimism are just high energy. At least for me, it works out that simply.)

A big problem I had is that, because I'd been drinking so much, and peeing so damn much, I keep waking up in the night, sometimes twice, to pee. So my sleep wasn't great most days.

Hunger almost entirely went away on day seven or eight, so it got super-easy, barely an inconvenience past that point.

Hunger would come back occasionally, but usually only due to stimulus, like someone eating in front of me. And not very ravenously.

Most of the time I could watch recipe/cooking videos now without torturing myself.

At some point, I wanted to eat not because I was actually hungry or felt that I needed to eat, but because I was bored of not eating, if that makes sense.

Eating is a pretty major sensory stimulus -- I would say it's the most sensuous experience people routinely have, outside of sex -- and you do start to miss it.

My weight dropped from 181 to 161, from 23.5% body fat to 19.1%. Since then, I held pretty stable at 163, but the last couple of days, the scale says I gained four more pounds back.

Not sure why because I've been doing One Meal A Day (OMAD) many days, and Nearly One Mean a Day (NOMAD -- copyright me, just one main meal plus some olives or something light an hour later) most days.

Gaining four pounds in two or three days is a lot of regain, so I think that maybe that's a lot of water weight I should have regained earlier but didn't. I stopped making a point to drink lots of liquids the moment I ended the fast, so maybe I just got dehydrated post-fast, or kept the mild case of dehydration going.

I had quite a headache for four days running so maybe that's confirmation that I was dehydrated, and maybe the regain is due to my trying to drink a lot of fluids since then.

I have not yet returned to weightlifting or martial arts, because I'm very lazy. I really have to get back to that.

Overall, it was a good experience. I felt pretty good most days -- some days I felt really good. I didn't make it quite to my main goal of 28 days, and not to my extended goals of 31, 35, or 40 days, but maybe next time.

I would definitely not recommend a long fast like that to anyone; it's something you build up to, like a skill. You need to get good at fasting, and get your body accomodated it, starting with just going 16 hours without any food, then 20, then 24, then 36 (a full day, plus that night), then two days, then three days, then four, then five. Shorter fasts to just get acclimated to it, and develop the needed knowledge base (like how much salt you, personally, need to supplement per day).

Once you're up to five days you can go for seven, and then after seven, you can probably go as long as you like, but I wouldn't recommend going too far in early days.

In fact, I wouldn't suggest that anyone who hasn't been fasting for short periods of time on and off for a year ever try more than five days, because at the five day point, refeeding syndrome becomes a possibility, which could result in hospitalization or death if you shock your system with too much food too quickly.

So, I did that, and sort of can't wait to go again in August, maybe. I was knocking on the door of being actually fit, and didn't quite get there. (I had/have sort of loose and pock-marked skin in my belly, due to fat being sucked out of there.)

I'm thinking just keep to keto and intermittent fasting for a couple of months, then see if I can get to the most stubborn and oldest fat I have on my body, the stuff I've had since I was 11.

This isn't just about weight loss, though excess weight is connected to a lot of chronic conditions. It's also about my fasting glucose levels being too high -- hanging right around 100, which is considered the starting point of being "prediabetic," and wanting to drop that to about 90. (It was down in the high fifties during the fast, but then, of course it was.)

I'm still being insulin resistant and therefore very sensitive to carbohydrates. Supposedly one can, over time, reverse these conditions, or at least lessen them.

So: Tell me about YO GAINZZZ.

Oh, and also: Open thread. GAINZZZ talk is invited, but you can talk about whatever you like.

Democrat Doxxer, Immediately Hired by Sheila-Jackson Lee Despite being Fired for Doxxing, Gets Four Years in Prison

—Ace of Spades

Now, I don't want to speculate about what Cosko's dating life might be in prison.

That I leave to garbage-bathers that specialize in that sort of thing, like National Review and Jonah Goldberg, who had a great deal of fun in speculating that the swinger Roger Stone might enjoy "swinging" in prison as well.

But I am concerned about a young man's welfare, so I do have to ask: will this upstanding young Aristocrat be bullied or abused in prison?

Let's check the evidence:

Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine. He's got the fine features, luxurious lashes, and long, elegant swan-like neck that puts other men on notice that if you so much as look at him funny, he will bathe in your blood before the children of Babylon.

He looks like a young Randal "Tex" Cobb.

He might have to smuggle a lot of money and contraband into prison, though, to buy off his more persistent suitors.

You know, smuggle it in his tight, coltish ass-cubby.

So he got 4 years.

After growing angry over the GOP’s handling of the nomination process he posted the personal info of Graham (R-SC), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and now-former Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch on Wikipedia. He then released the info about Kentucky Sens. McConnell and Paul.

...

Cosko pleaded guilty to five felonies in April, including making public restricted personal information, computer fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.

US District Court Judge Thomas Hogan said the sentence is intended to signal that politically driven criminal harassment will be punished severely.

"We have...a society that has become very vicious," Hogan said. "It's very concerning to the court and unfortunate that you played into that."

The sentencing comes after a second ex-Hassan aide, Samantha Deforest Davis, was charged with helping Cosko.

Well, the prosecutors sought five years, and the judge knocked one year off, despite acknowledging that we have become a vicious society and this little twink's actions are both an example of that and a potential source of inspiration for other twink sociopaths.

But judges always have to show themselves to "be fair and empathetic," at least when sentencing a well-connected rich Democrat.

With Republicans, you put them in solitary confinement and ship them off to Riker's for process crimes.

But you know, we should remain very invested in nurturing the current order and power structure. We're obviously on top of it, right? We should be the most vigorous defenders of the political/power hierarchy, because we're so clearly its primary beneficiaries.

We should continue living in our fantasy reality, pretending it's still 1986 or whatever and it's still perpetually Morning in America.

Shock: The FBI Used Another "Dossier" It Did Not Verify and In Fact Was Specifically Warned Might be Fake, to Start an Investigation into Paul Manafort

—Ace of Spades

Remember, it was critical to Hillary Clinton that the FBI have active investigations opened into the Trump campaign, because she had a high profile investigation into her own actions, and she desperately needed to be able to play the They Do It Too Card.

Our shining knights of fidelity, bravery, and integrity were all too eager to provide her with just that card.

The second document, known as the "black cash ledger," remarkably has escaped the [scrutiny the "Steele" "dossier" got, after-the-fact], even though its emergence in Ukraine in the summer of 2016 forced Paul Manafort to resign as Trump's campaign chairman and eventually face U.S. indictment.

In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed the ledger as one reason it resurrected a criminal case against Manafort that was dropped in 2014 and needed search warrants in 2017 for bank records to prove he worked for the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine.

There's just one problem: The FBI's public reliance on the ledger came months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn’t be trusted and likely was a fake, according to documents and more than a dozen interviews with knowledgeable sources.

For example, Ukraine’' top anticorruption prosecutor, Nazar Kholodnytsky, told me he warned the U.S. State Department’s law enforcement liaison and multiple FBI agents in late summer 2016 that Ukrainian authorities who recovered the ledger believed it likely was a fraud.

"It was not to be considered a document of Manafort. It was not authenticated. And at that time it should not be used in any way to bring accusations against anybody," Kholodnytsky said, recalling what he told FBI agents.

Likewise, Manafort’s Ukrainian business partner Konstantin Kilimnik, a regular informer for the State Department, told the U.S. government almost immediately after The New York Times wrote about the ledger in August 2016 that the document probably was fake.

Manafort "could not have possibly taken large amounts of cash across three borders. It was always a different arrangement -- payments were in wire transfers to his companies, which is not a violation," Kilimnik wrote in an email to a senior U.S. official on Aug. 22, 2016.

He added: "I have some questions about this black cash stuff, because those published records do not make sense. The timeframe doesn’t match anything related to payments made to Manafort. ...It does not match my records. All fees Manafort got were wires, not cash."

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team and the FBI were given copies of Kilimnik's warning, according to three sources familiar with the documents.

Now, you really should real the whole thing, but this is incredible:

It's illegal to submit, as part of an official record, evidence to a judge -- for example, in seeking a warrant against Paul Manafort-- which the person submitting knows to be fraudulent, or which may be fraudulent.

It can result in an actual criminal charge being filed.

So, what did Mueller and Weismann do?

They could not submit the "black cash ledger" as evidence in seeking probable cause warrants against Manafort -- that could expose their own corrupt asses to federal charges.

But they were determined to jam it in there anyway.

So they submitted media reports as evidence supporting the warrant, based on leaks about the likely fraudulent ledger, as part of their application.

They effectively submitted the contents of the "ledger," without submitting the ledger itself -- in order to avoid having to tell the judge, straight up, that they'd been warned by several informed sources that the thing was a forgery and a sham.

Bring charges against them anyway. This is a transparent dodge and still constitutes submitting fraudulent "evidence" to a tribunal.

Coming soon from David French, Jonah Goldberg, and "Popehat:"

The Conservative Case for Perpetrating Serial Frauds on Federal Courts

A question worth probing: Did someone on Mueller's own team leak the contents of the sham "ledger" to the media precisely so he could get a story written up and cite that -- which was an intentional product of his own illegal leaking -- as evidence rather than having to cite the phony ledger itself?

Company Proposes, Exhibits Standing-Room Only Airplane "Seating"

—Ace of Spades

Except it's not seating, it's standing, with a little bit of leaning, plus a bicycle-like saddle delivering pressure right where you want it, in your groin.

That should make turbulent air especially fun.

You'd get a discount, I guess.

Maybe this would be plausible for a shuttle-type plane, a one-hour or 1:20 flight.

Maybe.

Meanwhile, Huntington Park, California deploys "HP Robocop," a "crime-fighting robot," though it seems to be more of a remotely-piloted drone that travels on the ground (slowly) rather than flying.

The robot, dubbed "HP Robocop," is described as an "autonomous data machine" and is expected to be officially unveiled by the Huntington Park police department on Tuesday.

Equipped with 360-degree video cameras, Huntington Park police will deploy "HP RoboCop" to monitor and surveil areas such as parks and city buildings. The robot will then be able to relay video footage from its cameras to police headquarters in order to facilitate fast and safe responses from police officers.

"HP RoboCop" will also be able to roll down sidewalks and recite phrases to members of the public, such as "excuse me" and "good day to you."

Take this back. This is not the future I ordered. No, I don't know who ordered this. No one ordered it, I would expect.

I would like you to make a whole new future, the one I specifically ordered. I need a total re-do.

As Democrats Talk More and More About Reparations, Americans Harden Their Position Against Them

—Ace of Spades

The radicalized cadre of white liberals is forcing the Democrat party to the hard left, and making the candidates all support a series of very unpopular positions.

I guess the Democrats will be running on a platform of reparations and forcing high school girls to shower with boys.

A Fox News poll in April found that 60 percent of Americans oppose paying cash reparations to descendants of slaves, while just 32 percent support it. A Rasmussen poll in the same month found that just 21 percent of likely voters think taxpayers should pay reparations to black Americans who can prove they are descended from slaves.

However, in a finding that could put 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls in a bind, the Fox poll found that among Democratic primary voters, 54 percent said they were likely to support a candidate who backed reparations, while 33 percent said they were not likely.

Additionally, Data For Progress found in a poll last year that while the measure had only 26 percent of Americans in favor, it had net positive support among voters under 45. A Point-Taken Marist poll in 2016 found that while 68 percent of Americans were opposed to reparations, 6 in 10 black Americans said they were in favor.

Woman Comes Forward, Claiming that Hunter Biden is Her Baby's Secret Father; Sues to Prove It

—Ace of Spades

She says she already has proof the baby is a Biden -- it won't stop nuzzling her cleavage

Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, filed a petition for paternity and child support against Joe Biden’s lawyer son, saying she gave birth to his kid, "Baby Doe," in August 2018, according to court papers.

The two-page suit was filed in Independence County, Arkansas, on May 28 -- nearly two weeks after Hunter tied the knot with a South African woman named Melissa Cohen.

Roberts wants a court to establish that the 49-year-old father of three is her baby’s biological dad. She is also seeking child support and for him to provide health insurance for the now-10-month-old infant. All out-of-pocket expenses would be split between the two parents, the filing said.

Kamala Harris Accuses Trump of Trying to "Remake" America's "Demographics"... By Deporting Non-Americans?!?!

—Ace of Spades

Sounds like someone else just admitted to trying to remake the country's demographics by making non-Americans Americans.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

I (and most of the people around these parts) haven't been a neo-con for a very long time. But the Leftist/Democrat disinformation engine has been put into overdrive...the usual suspects are claiming that Pompeo and Bolton and Trump are provoking Iran because they are frantic for war.

Well, we have been at war with Iran for 40 years...the problem is that we didn't admit it. Iran has been the world's leader in fomenting terrorism against America and its allies, and is directly responsible for many of the American combat deaths in Iraq, via their roadside bomb technology.

Iran Shoots Down U.S. Spy Drone; CENTCOM Says It Was In International Airspace

So this is not surprising at all. If the drone was over Iranian territory, which is what the Mullahs claim (and I don't believe), then that's the cost of intelligence gathering. However, if the drone was truly over international airspace then we must respond. But contrary to the hopes and masturbatory dreams of the Democrats, we do not need to send armored columns into Iran. it is a fragile country, with many targets of opportunity that can be destroyed from afar, without risking American lives. Electric grids, their single gasoline refinery, military communications...all are excellent targets. And outside their borders they are even more vulnerable. Lebanon, Syria, Yemen (and others) have Iranian troops, advisors, military equipment, or all three.

And what is the argument against an American response? Well, the Iranian navy could close the straits of Hormuz, at least temporarily. That would send shock waves throughout the world. But who buys the most Mideast oil? China. And who can ramp up production, courtesy of fracking? America. However, any closure of the straits would demand a world-wide response, so both the closure and the Iranian navy's days would be numbered.

Iran is clearly testing the resolve of the current administration, and hoping that internal political pressure will force President Trump to moderate the sanctions because of the threat of war. But President Trump has shown that when threatened, he tends to punch back...harder. So Iran's typical game might not work now.

One option would be to keep any response under the radar, so Iran won't know for sure what happened. I like the idea of keeping them off balance and unable to point to American "provocation" and play the victim card.

Mid-Morning Open Thread [Kris]

—CBD

Cornelia, Mother Of The Gracci, Pointing To Her Children As Her Treasures
Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman painted at a time when women were heavily restricted from the royal academies, but she showed so much undeniable talent that she was a member of five across Europe. This work is an excellent example of Neoclassicism, a style about heroism, virtue and idealism. It is heavily theatrical and melodramatic. It was the first of two (or second of three depending on who you ask) major artistic expressions of the late Enlightenment period.

For me, the key elements in this work are composition and color. Cornelia dominates the painting, standing just off-center to the right, dressed in white, gold and purple. These three colors have high significance and give her an almost angelic, queenly, noble quality. Farther right, Cornelia holds her young daughter’s hand as she talks with another woman. The girl’s attention is on the shiny objects in the woman’s box. The other woman sits and is earnestly showing off her jewelry. She is also dressed in white and gold but these colors are covered with a vivid red, the color of carnality. Immediately, just by the colors alone, we are given a hint that there is something different about Cornelia.

These three figures are all connected and form one large mass of females. Two boys are to the left. The older boy’s colors mimic his mother’s, linking them and possibly saying that he is the nobler of the two. The younger boy is in red, maybe representing his immaturity. Red on both ends of the composition also frames and unifies the piece further. The younger boy is hunched over, forcing him to look up to his older brother too. This may foreshadow their adulthood when the younger will follow the older into politics and take over after the older is murdered.

A space separates the male and females but Cornelia unifies the groups using her eyes that look to the right and by her gesture towards the boys that draws the viewer’s eye to the left. The eyes swing back and forth across the canvas taking it all in. Cornelia is the tallest form in the painting and as we move to the edges the figures squat, creating a shallow triangle. This may be an homage to Greek pedimental sculpture, but it also makes everyone, including the viewer, look up to Cornelia, literally and figuratively. Kauffman’s attempts to move the eye around the piece while keeping the focus on Cornelia is important because those reds are so bright and dominant. The separation of the sexes may represent the gender expectations in Rome and Kauffman’s time. The boys are holding a book and a scroll signaling their focus on education and the intellect while their sister focuses on emotional and earthly things.

Kauffman is a woman in a profession dominated by men, painting for a female audience. Here, Cornelia is presented as the Ideal Mother, a model for women everywhere. While the other woman and the girl are preoccupied by shiny baubles and shallow things, her priorities are raising good, well-educated, grounded men. The Gracci brothers are known to Roman history as reformers and martyrs, and Kauffman answers the question of where such men come from… they come from good mothers.

[Kris has graciously agreed (after much begging from me), to write an occasional art thread. Look for her name on the headline so you won't be surprised to find actual informed art criticism on these august pages]

The Morning Report - 6/20/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Thursday and we're loaded with all sorts of juicy stuff guaranteed to make you nutsy-fagin so here we go. First up in the border and immigration crisis, a story that broke late yesterday where the FBI has arrested a Syrian refugee for plotting to blow up a church in Pittsburgh. Since the deviant in question is neither Jewish, Christian, conservative nor an NRA member, soon after the white patriarchy is blamed, we will be admonished against Muslim backlash before the incident is memory-holed. And this bastard came right in through the front door, presumably during the Obama reign of error. Who the hell knows what's streaming across our border now? Wait a second, we do know; Africans from the ebola belt as well as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis IIRC, along with the illiterate, destitute peasantry of most of Central America courtesy of bus, train and plane tickets paid for by a certain Nazi collaborator among others.

Meanwhile, one brave bureaucrat in New York State has defied Andrew Cuomo and his Democrat apparatchiks in the state legislature by stating he will refuse to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens. I fully expect him to get the Kim Davis treatment or worse. Yet despite this insanity, despite President Trump's victory predicated on border security and sane immigration policy, we have a GOP that wants to help... by greasing the skids for the invading hordes to get comfy and have legal aid bought and paid for by our tax dollars (see the link in the politics section about the "Tessio Republicans"). Elsewhere, ICE is giving priority to booting illegals with final removal orders, along with halitosis and un-dissolved flecks of Efferdent, Nancy Palsi projects, a legal immigrant looks at the madness, a study indicates the US is no longer the number one destination for asylum seekers (gee, how did that happen do you suppose?), and finally Chiquita Khruschev AOC sets a rhetorical trap for herself and her fellow Maoists with her "concentration camps" bilge.

To the Clinton/Obama Coup + Mueller Deception and Cover-Up and Congressional Inquisition where we have some interesting developments. Margot Cleveland over at The Federalist is high on Michael Flynn's new attorney exposing even more of Spygate criminality to a broader audience, with Manafort rotting in jail and the Dems itching to go after Trump once he leaves office in 2036 (inshalla [sarc]), Monday's SCOTUS ruling on double jeopardy puts a dent in his issuing of pardons, and Mueller might regret going after Roger Stone.

Looking at the Democrat Scandal Sheet, fresh off the news of the conviction of this Jackson Cosko stooge, news comes now of a second Congressional staffer being charged in the "doxxing" of Republicans during the Kavanaugh hearings. So that means it goes from a one-off incident to what I think was a plot to sabotage and smear the nominee and his supporters by any means necessary. And this fish stinks from the head. The head being Maggie Hassan and possibly Dianne Feinstein. Oh yes, gentle reader. I haven't forgotten her involvement in this. Stay tuned. Elsewhere, the FBI and DHS are probing a Leftist subversive organization for trying to steal massive amounts of Michigan voter data, and Louisiana's John Bel Edwards gets money from Hollywood almost immediately after returning from a Tinsel Town junket. Also, Maizie Hirohito, born of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Whorehouse from a pimp momma, is circling the wagons around fellow detestable Dem dolt with the deep decolletage Chiquita Khruschev AOC, claiming her disgusting comparison of US detention of illegal aliens to concentration camps is just an attempt to protect Trump. Also in that vein, an excellent essay on the Left's eternal lying about Auschwitz and its meanings. More on this story in a moment.

Politics: Trump's re-election kickoff rally was by any metric an incredible success. He hit it out of the park rhetorically, both in terms of underscoring the accomplishments despite the resistance as well as dollars: $28.4 million in the first 24 hours which I believe is more than the total raised so far of the putative Dem leaders to date. He also perfectly described who and what the Democrats are. Meanwhile in the Swamp, at another dog and pony show to pimp slavery reparations - yet again - the Dems went apeshit when two black witnesses took to the microphones to denounce the concept. One of them, former NFL star Burgess Owens dropped a truth nuke on the hearings by rightfully declaring that every misery and indignity suffered by black Americans throughout our history is the fault of Democrats. Linked in the First Amendment section, a hack from the NY Times without even realizing the insanity of his statement belched up that blacks testifying against reparations "have no other qualifications than being black." Let that sink in.

Meanwhile, poor Joey Bidet is taking all kinds of flak for praising his past collegial relationship with two horrible, unreconstructed Democrat racists, the Southern Baptists go insane and embrace identity politics, Fauxca-Has-Been and Bernie Sandersnista go at each other, Tubby Riefenstahl warns Dems about enormity or something, three good links look at the GOP in all of this with Tu-Ca telling it like it is about the Koch CoC Whores, Obama will not sheathe his shit-Midas finger for 2020, and David Harsanyi on that tragedy behind Chiquita Khruschev's utter pig-ignorance vis a vis concentration camps.

First Amendment and Fake News Fakery: Target of the Columbia Journalism Review speaks out about being smeared for connecting the dots between journalists and Antifa, Josh Hawley on the warpath against Big Tech/Brother, California Church and ACLU sue election official over banned Black Lives Matter banner, smack down of Chris Cuomo on nationalism, and Republicans ask DoJ why Al Jazeera is not considered a foreign agent of Qatar?

Guns: Judge smacks down California attempt to ban gun shows.

Abortion: Tom Cotton slams companies over hypocritical pro-abortion stances.

Foreign Desk: Mexico ratifies PDT's USMCA trade deal, US official claims an Arabian Gulf of Tonkin incident with shoot down of US drone in international waters, the usually pro-Iranian Germany blames Iran for tanker attack, Victor Davis Hanson says Trump holds all the cards with Iran, Chi-Coms facing all kinds of internal strife in its cities, two Russkies and one Ukie charged with shooting down that Malaysian Airliner (not the one in Don Lemon's black hole theory), and Daniel Greenfield talks about Israel's new town named after Trump.

DEE-Fense: A look at the growing menace of cyberwarfare.

We-All-Slam-For-I-Slam: Canuck gets 26 years for aiding and abetting 2009 Iraq terror attack that killed US soldiers, and BBC imam bitches about Jooz and the Holocaust. Meh, another day ending in I KEEEEEEL YOU!

Domestic Affairs: New Jersey man gets five years in the slammer for getting his own reparations, Bill Cassidy blames Medicare and Social Security for debt and deficits and sez cutting bureaucracies elsewhere won't matter much, Dems have no solution for the latters' looming implosion, a look at the madness of California taxation, and Justice Thomas' credo. Screw Danny Glover; Clarence Thomas is a real expert on the legacy of slavery.

The Economy: Lockheed Martin announces $142 million Arkansas plant, the big upside of tariffs despite a little initial pain, and Cuomo's licenses for illegal aliens will destroy wages for legal citizen cabbies.

Crime and Punishment: NXIVM sex cult leader found guilty. Has Gillibrand ever been grilled about her former relationship with them (no, of course not)? Mayor Buttplug's anti-violence commission in South Bend is a flop. Mayor Pete: Make America Go South and Bend Over. Also, the Feds make a record 33,000-pound cocaine seizure. Where's Murkowski?

Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal: Whistleblower in the Vatican claims DC Basilica's rector a member of the "Gay Mafia." They rub glitter on the bullets instead of garlic...

Education: Rabbi Fischer on Chiquita Khruschev's concentration camp comments as a symptom of our rotting educational system, and K-12 Red Ed. Well, the latter explains the former.

Feminazism and Transgender Psychosis: IAAF is having none of the tranny garbage deeming biology not identity as defining who you are, and three high school girls file lawsuit against the junk-tuckers competing with them.

Hither and Yon: Blame the French for plummeting birth rates, two essays on Taylor Swift's SJW implosion, John Stossel on the moral case for capitalism, high tech is now lowbrow for the elite and that's unfair for the masses (I think I got that right), and a look at the fundamentalist religious cult of the Progressives. They truly are what they mock so mercilessly. Projection ain't just a river in Egypt.

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.

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION BORDER WALL, BORDER SECURITY

• FBI: Syrian Refugee Who Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Arrested for Pittsburgh Church Bomb Plot
  
• New York County Clerk Is Refusing To Give Driver's Licenses To Illegals (insurrection cuts both ways, Andrew - jjs)
  
• Senate Heads Toward Addressing Border Crisis... By Funding Refugee Resettlement and Legal Aid
  
• Acting ICE Director: ICE Deporting Illegals with Final Removal Orders from Judges
  
• Palsi Pelosi: Trump's "New Threat of a Mass Deportation Dragnet is An Act of Utter Malice and Bigotry"
  
• Immigration Madness: A Legal Immigrant Weighs In
  
• Study: The US Is No Longer the Top Destination For Refugees (hallelujah, if true - jjs)
  
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC's "Concentration Camps": Dems Now Morally Obligated to Build Border Wall

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION
  

• Cleveland: 5 Ways Michael Flynn's New Lawyer Could Expose More About Spygate
  
• Trump-Haters Salivating Over SCOTUS Double Jeopardy Decision
  
• Russian Hack or CrowdStrike Ruse?: Mueller May Live to Regret Indicting Roger Stone

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

• Second Congressional Democrat Staffer Charged in Scheme to "Dox" Republicans Amid Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight (what did Maggie Hassan know and when? - jjs)
  
• Maizie Hirohito Says Outrage Over Chiquita Khruschev AOC Comment Is "Manufactured" To Protect Trump (sez daughter of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Whorehouse - jjs)
  
• Leftists Have Always Lied About Auschwitz
  
• FBI, DHS Contacted Over Stealth Dem Effort to Gain Voter Data
  
• Film Studios Donate to John Bel Edwards After Hollywood Trip

  POLITICS
  

• Trump 2020 Campaign Raises Record $28.4 Million in First 24 Hours (early night - jjs)
  
• Trump on the Democrat Party: "More Radical, More Dangerous, and More Unhinged"
  
• Trump's Orlando Speech: Unprecedented and Remarkable
  
• Burgess Owens on Reparations: "Every Bad Thing That's Happened to My Race Over the Years" Goes "Right Back to the Democratic Party"
  
• Republican Lawmaker Booed For Explaining Why Slavery Reparations Could Be Unconstitutional
  
• Black Witness Booed For Testifying Against Slave Reparations In Congress
  
• Joe Bidet Praises "Civility" of Two Arch Segregationists
  
• In Last-Minute Move, Southern Baptist Convention Supports Anti-Christian Racial Identity Politics
  
• Stalinist Sanders Sez Trotskyite Fauxca-Has-Been Backed by "Corporate Wing"
  
• Democrat Establishment Now Sees Fauxca-Has-Been Warren As "Compromise Nominee"
  
• Tubby Riefenstahl Warns Dems About the "Enormity of the Fight Ahead" After Watching Trump Rally (he said "enormity" - jjs)
  
• Memo to Joe Bidet: Republicans Are Not Likely to Go Back to the Old Ways in a Post-Trump Era (that remains to be seen, inshalla - jjs)
  
• Tessio Republicans: Worse Than Democrats?
  
• How the GOP Will Retake the House in 2020
  
• Tu-Ca: "Conservatives Might Want to Pause and Rethink the Relationship" with the Kochs (bingo! - jjs)
  
• Good News, America: Obama Doesn't Plan to Shut Up in 2020
  
• Democrats' Problem Is Not the 70-Somethings Leading the Party, It's Their Socialist Young
  
• Harsanyi: The Problem With Chiquita Khruschev AOC's Shameful Ignorance Of History

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  

• Black NY Times Writer Mocks Blacks Testifying Against Slave Reparations: They "Have No Apparent Qualifications Other Than Being Black" (is there a word combining "Orwellian" and "schmuck?" - jjs)
  
• The Columbia Journalism Review Smeared Me For Pointing Out Connections Between Antifa and Journalists; They Should Retract
  
• Senator Hawley Plans to Strip Big Tech of Legal Immunity
  
• California Church Teams With ACLU, Sues Election Official Over Black Lives Matter Banners
  
• There Has Always Been an American Nationalism, No Matter What Chris Cuomo Thinks
  
• Republicans Ask DoJ Why Al Jazeera Isn't Registered As Foreign Agent Of Qatar

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• Federal Judge Blocks California Board's Attempt to Ban Gun Shows

  ABORTION
  

• Tom Cotton Slams Pro-Abortion Companies: They "Want Men and Women, Not Family Men and Women"

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  

• Mexico Ratifies Trump's Trade Agreement
  
• US Official: Iran Shot Down American Drone Over International Airspace (Persian Gulf... of Tonkin? - jjs)
  
• Germany: "Strong Evidence" Iran Carried Out Tanker Attacks
  
• Trump is Right to Face Down Iran's Empty Threats
  
• V.D. Hanson: We Hold All the Cards in the Showdown with Iran
  
• China's Urban Crisis
  
• The Other Malaysian Airlines Flight: Three Russians and a Ukrainian Charged With Shooting Down MH17, Killing 298
  
• Greenfield: The History of the Israeli Community of Ramat Trump

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  

• Cyberattacks: A New Age in Modern Warfare

  ISLAM, TERRORISM, SHARIA, DHIMMITUDE
  

• Canadian Man Gets 26 Years for Conspiracy to Kill US Soldiers
  
• BBC's Imam: "Zionists are Hiding Behind Holocaust"

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  

• New Jersey Man Faces 5 Years in Prison for $3 Million Food Stamp Fraud (meh, it's just "reparations" - jjs)
  
• Sen. Cassidy: Medicare, Social Security Are Driving the Federal Debt, Closing a Federal Department Would Not Have a "Meaningful Impact" (well, then abolish Social Security and Medicare - jjs)
  
• As Fiscal Outlook Darkens, No 2020 Hopeful Has A Plan To Save Social Security
  
• Government Needs a Tax Diet
  
• Justice Thomas' Credo

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  

• Lockheed Martin Announces $142 Million Expansion of Arkansas Plant, More Than 300 New Jobs
  
• Yes, Tariffs Make Stuff More Expensive, But Sometimes It's Worth It
  
• New York Democrats Gift 250,000 Illegal Alien Drivers to Uber, Delivery Companies; Wages of Citizen Cabbies Will Be Destroyed

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  

• Jury Finds Leader of Sex Cult Involving Smallville Star Guilty Of All Charges (will Gillibrand face heat for this? - jjs)
  
• Mayor Buttplug's Anti-Violence Commission Fails To Reduce Shootings in South Bend
  
• Feds Make Record Seizure of Over 33,000 Pounds Of Cocaine Worth Over $1 Billion (sound of Lisa Murkowski fainting - jjs)

  CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL, COVER UP
  

• Vatican Whistleblower Claims Rector of Washington, DC Basilica Is a Member of the "Gay Mafia"

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  

• Rabbi Fischer: What Chiquita Khruschev AOC's "Concentration Camp" Comments Tell Us About the Deconstruction and Breakdown of American Education
  
• K-12: Red Ed

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

• Women's Gold Medalist Is "Biologically Male," Sports Governing Body Says
  
• It's Happening: Three High School Girls File Discrimination Complaint Over Dominating Transgender Athletes

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  

• Fewer Kids? Blame the French
  
• Toto: Taylor Swift Can't Shake Off Social Justice Scolds
  
• A Swift Demise
  
• Stossel: The Moral Case for Capitalism
  
• The Wealthy's Analog Snobbery Shouldn't Crowd Out a Low-Tech Life For Those Who Need It Most
  
• Worshipful Procession: The Progressive Liberal Protest March

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (6/19/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

“It’s bullshit. We lost. Suck it up. I don’t like harvesting, but suck it up.”

“We got a problem here in Orange County. Instead of bitching and crying [about ballot harvesting], go do it yourself. It’s legal.” Mission Viejo’s Republican Mayor Greg Raths

Quote II

“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.
It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.” Whittaker Chambers, Witness

Quote III

"I also want to thank, in particular, the federal protective service whose officers saved who knows how many people this morning by responding to the active shooter situation by neutralizing the shooter," "These guys are our heroes today. We owe them a debt of gratitude." Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney

Quote IV

"I was OK with being a drug addict. I was OK with that being my life. But I wasn't OK with having kids and letting that be part of my life." Amelia (Last name withheld)

Quote V

"True Conservatives"

They're diseased whores who used to suck off the right for money, and now they suck off the left. Either way, their only marketable skill is sucking people off. Ace

Quote VI

“What’s at stake here is not my future, or ours, or even our family’s. We will be fine,” Sullivan continued. “What is at stake are the values that underwrite the best traditions of higher education, the very same traditions that have sustained Harvard for nearly 400 years. In America, everyone is entitled to a defense, in America, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and in America, everyone is entitled to due process of law under our Constitution.” Ronald Sullivan

***

So, the world's population is expected to stop growing by the end of the century.

For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century, due in large part to falling global fertility rates, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the United Nations.

By 2100, the world’s population is projected to reach approximately 10.9 billion, with annual growth of less than 0.1% – a steep decline from current levels. Between 1950 and today, the world’s population grew between 1% and 2% each year, with the number of people rising from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion.

***

The ONT is always looking out for you. Tonight is no different. The ten most dangerous countries in the world. Our advice, stay away at vacation time.

The ongoing domestic and international conflict category includes deaths from organized conflict and relations with neighboring countries. The societal safety and security category includes political instability, violent crime, and the incarcerated population. The militarization category includes access to weapons and weapons imports and exports.

In 2019, overall global peacefulness increased for the first time in five years, but the world is still less peaceful than it was 10 years ago, the report says. This year, Afghanistan replaced Syria as the least peaceful country in the world.

***

I'm a parent, not a perfect parent. Mrs. Mis. Hum. raised three great children despite me. Guess I'm opinionated and think quite a few parents today are doing it wrong. Overprotective parenting is more than an annoyance; it's an evolutionary aberration.

Children have been raised a certain way for most of human history, but only in the last half-century has the approach to parenting drastically changed. Families have gone from having natural births, shared rooms, physical contact, and frequent breastfeeding to delivering by C-sections, sleeping in separate bedrooms, formula feeding, and emphasizing 'personal space' at home.

While these changes have improved mortality rates and infant health in many cases, they have also come at a cost to the mental and emotional development of children whose brains are wired for a different kind of upbringing than the one they're getting.

Any parent who walks their child with a kiddy leash at the mall ought to be ..........

***

The Parable of the Nazi Pizza.

Race is a valuable commodity. That’s a simple truth, in the advertising world as well as in Hollywood. And just as race is a valuable commodity, so is racism. In fact, I’d argue that racism sells even better than race. A person whose race is X will see an attractive actor of X in a commercial, and that person might—might—be tempted to purchase the product being advertised because the commercial pitchperson looks like them. It’s a decent advertising strategy, but by no means guaranteed to work. On the other hand, if the person whose race is X sees an online essay or article that attacks people who are X, it’s damn near certain that the person of X will get angry and make an outrage post in which the offending link is shared.

The awesome online power of race is nowhere stronger than in the world of opinion journalism. Nothing gets social media more riled up than opinion pieces about race. People love approvingly sharing posts that insult other races, and people love angrily sharing posts that insult their own race. Race gets hits. The problem is, our benevolent media overlords are supposedly working to cleanse racism from the internet. So, how do you fight racism while still benefiting from the ad-rate-setting clicks, likes, and shares that are generated by provocative pieces that deal in racial hatred?

I’ll answer that question with the Parable of the Nazi Pizza.

***

Using canned chicken breast in a pinch is understandable. But, a whole canned cooked chicken?

The ONT Musical Interlude

John Kay solo work between Steppenwolf reunifications.

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***

Attempting to recreate the movie "Stripes" is tonight's Genius Award Winner.

A drunk driver was arrested last week for driving a tank through the streets of Pajęczno, Poland.

The vehicle, a Soviet T-55 tank that's at least 60 years old, belonged to the Polish military. But on June 12 shortly before 10pm it looked like it was attacking residents, who quickly called police.

According to Polish newspaper Twoje Pajęczno, the unnamed driver, 49, was only responsible for putting the tank on and off its trailer. But the trailer broke and, when it was being repaired, he drunkenly decided to take the war machine out on a joyride.

By the time the cops arrived, he had parked the 40-ton machine, which was uninsured, on a main street and was standing nearby. Another man, believed to be his passenger, was also present.

It's not clear if the muddled motorist caused any permanent damage to Mickiewicza Street but he was arrested and, once he sobered up, questioned by police. He faces up to eight years in prison if charged with creating "direct danger of a catastrophe in land, water or air traffic," or two years for driving under the influence.

***

Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Scientists Are Using Music To Help Build The Brains Of Premature Babies
June 18, 2019

Researchers in Switzerland have discovered that certain music helps strengthen brain development in premature babies.

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Close it up

Pakistan Accidentally Turns On Cat Filter During Livestream Hearing, Turning Government Officials Into Kitty-Cats

—Ace of Spades

"Accidentally," sure.

Damned furries.

Meanwhile, Twitter bans American conservatives for saying "Learn to Code" but it's eager to enforce Pakistan's non-applicable religious laws against American users:

Well, it's at least good to know that David French and Ben Shapiro will always be welcome on leftist social media sites, because they have proven they are ineffectual conservatives but very effective liberals.

In Venezuela, AKA Future America, People Are Digging Up Bodies to Mine Them for... Riches

—Ace of Spades

The developmentally challenged Ocasio-Cortez will call this Crade-to-Grave Recycling.

Even the dead aren’t safe in Maracaibo, a sweltering, suffering city in Venezuela.

Thieves have broken into some of the vaults and coffins in El Cuadrado cemetery since late last year, stealing ornaments and sometimes items from corpses as the country sinks to new depths of deprivation.

"Starting eight months ago, they even took the gold teeth of the dead," said Jose Antonio Ferrer, who is in charge of the cemetery, where a prominent doctor, a university director and other local luminaries are buried.

...

Ferrer, the man in charge of El Cuadrado cemetery, took over the job from his father after he died, His father, in turn, had inherited the post from his father. The cemetery was founded nearly two centuries ago.

Daily burials used to happen until late afternoon, Ferrer said. But the cemetery now has tightened up on security, only holding burials until noon to deter grave robbers.

More scenes from our exciting socialist future at the link.

Tom Cotton's Statement on Corporations Against Conservative Voters

—Ace of Spades

Below the fold, a video of his remarks.

Many state legislatures across the country have taken action recently to protect unborn babies from the violence of abortion. My home state, for instance, Arkansas, has just passed a law protecting unborn babies after 18 weeks of development. And this reform is not just supported by Arkansans. It's supported by a large majority of all Americans, more than 70% of whom believe unborn babies ought to be protected at or before that stage of pregnancy.

These reforms are the work of the pro-life movement, which fights for the most vulnerable among us every day. The pro-life movement seeks to change the laws of our country in the noblest tradition of our country, working within our democratic system so that our laws ultimately live up to our highest principle: That "all men are created equal," in the words of our Declaration. That all have a basic right to life.

But of course, this is a democracy, so not everyone agrees when or even if we ought to protect the unborn. I understand that. I know there are decent people on both sides of this sensitive issue. We resolve our differences and reach compromises through democratic debate. What should never happen, though, is billion-dollar corporations trying to dictate these moral questions to us. Politically correct CEOs shouldn't be in the business of threatening normal Americans.

But that's exactly what we've seen lately. The loudest objections to these pro-life laws haven't come from the "bottom up"-from normal citizens who happen to disagree with one another-but from the "top down": from cultural elites, and increasingly from giant corporations who wield their economic power as a weapon to punish the American people for daring to challenge their pro-abortion extremism.

Giant media companies like Disney, Netflix, and Warner Media have threatened to cripple Georgia's film industry if its residents don't bend the knee and betray their pro-life convictions.

And just last Monday, the New York Times ran a full-page advertisement organized by the pro-abortion lobby and signed by the CEOs of hundreds of companies saying that legal protections for unborn babies are "bad for business." How disgusting is that? Caring for a little baby is "bad for business."

Now, I get why outfits like Planned Parenthood or NARAL would say babies are "bad for business." Abortion is their business, after all, and they're just protecting their market share.

But what about those other CEOs? Why do they think babies are "bad for business?"

Perhaps because they want their workers to focus single-mindedly on working-not building a family and raising children. All these politically correct CEOs want company men and women, not family men and women. They'll support your individuality and self-expression just so long as you stay unattached and on the clock.

You couldn't find a more perfect example of this than &Pizza, one of the companies whose CEO signed the pro-abortion ad. &Pizza doesn't even offer paid maternity leave to all its employees-but it does celebrate their "oneness" and "individuality." It'll even pay employees to get a tattoo of the company logo. So if you want to be a walking billboard for your employer, &Pizza will foot the bill. But if you're pregnant with a child, tough luck. In the spirit of some of these CEOs, I might call for a boycott of &Pizza and its political correctness. But you could just skip them because their pizza is lousy, anyway.

There's a troubling trend among giant corporations using this wealth and power to force liberal dogma on an unwilling people. As liberal activists have lost control of the judiciary, they've turned to a different hub of power to impose their views on the rest of the country. This time it's private power, located in a few mega-cities on the coasts.

And that's not an exaggeration. The overwhelming majority of companies that lashed out against the pro-life movement in that New York Times ad are headquartered on the coasts, hoping to rule the rest of us like colonies in the hinterlands. More than three-quarters are headquartered in New York or California alone. More than a dozen are foreign companies. Yet those same companies presume to tell all of America what we should think.

And for some reason, this outrage only seems to go in one direction. As states like Arkansas have passed pro-life laws, other states have sadly gone down a different path, stripping unborn children of recognition and protection under the law. States like New York, Illinois, and Vermont recently passed laws declaring abortion a "fundamental right," accessible until moments before birth for practically any reason as long as you have a doctor's note.

We've already begun to see the consequences of these laws, which strain so mightily to defy and deny the humanity of the unborn. In New York City, prosecutors recently dropped a charge of abortion against a man who brutally stabbed to death his girlfriend and her unborn child. They dropped that charge because the pro-abortion law that had just passed the legislature in Albany removed all criminal penalties for killing an unborn child. According to the laws of New York State, that woman's child never existed.

Pro-abortion laws passed in New York, Illinois, Vermont, and elsewhere truly deserve the label "radical." So why isn't the national media covering these radical laws with the intensity they've reserved for states like Georgia? Where are the indignant CEOs who profess to care so much for their female employees? Nowhere to be found, because their outrage is very selective. They don't speak for the majority of Americans, much less for women. Instead, they're actively trying to force a pro-abortion agenda on an unwilling public.

These companies want to wield a veto power over the democratic debate and decisions of Arkansans and citizens across our country. They want to force the latest social fashions of the coasts on small towns they would never visit in a million years. They want us to betray our deeply held beliefs about life and death, in favor of a specious account of "equality." If there's one thing the New York Times ad got right, it's that "the future of equality hangs in the balance" when it comes to abortion. But their idea of equality doesn't include everyone: it omits and degrades unborn babies as expendable, lesser than, even "bad for business." That's a strange kind of equality, if you ask me.

This trend of intolerance ought to alarm everyone, no matter your views on this sensitive question. It threatens democratic debate on this question, and ultimately on all questions.

But despite the pressure campaign waged against us, I'm heartened, because I know the pro-life movement will carry on as it always has, speaking to the inherent dignity of every human life. Not everything can be measured on a corporate balance sheet. Some things are bigger than the bottom line or what wealthy corporations consider "bad for business." The cause of life is one of those issues worth fighting for.

Bonus:

>>>I would be more amenable to the libertarian argument regarding corporations if they were willing to stay the fuck out of political meddling. Once you use your power against me, I'm going to use my power, through my elected representatives, against you.

You know, there's a shareholder lawsuit to be had here. A corporation that acts beyond its corporate charter can be sued by any of its shareholders for acting ultra vires, acting beyond the directives of the corporate charter, the agreed-to purpose of the corporation.

Now, most such suits are over stuff like corporate charity but those suits don't work because of the very malleable concept of "goodwill." If a corporation thinks that donating to Planned Parenthood buys it more goodwill, it's within the corporate charter (as increasing goodwill is always or almost always permitted as a basic function of business).

HOWEVER, moves that alienate half the country, threaten states, BOYCOTT entire states, etc., do not increase goodwill. They decrease it.

Also, I'm 99% sure they don't run polls about this stuff to determine if such a move would increase goodwill or not. I think I know that because I know a guy who does consulting and was asked about this sort of issue, asked by the CEO of a MAJOR, MAJOR corporation for advice (because he thought all the liberal marketing department people and mid-level managers were just telling them their Get Trump opinion, not necessarily reflective of popular opinion).

How major a corporation? Well, one of the blue chips.

Anyway, he started to do a study, and so began looking for previous studies on this sort of issue for a background and template for his own study.

His findings? THERE HAS NEVER BEEN AN ACTUAL STUDY OR POLL DONE ON A CORPORATE POLITICAL POSITIONING MOVE. N-E-V-E-R.

His was the first.

Corporations just make these decisions based on the personal political preferences of the officers and board, and their vague "feels."

Therefore, I think an ultra vires lawsuit could prevail -- just ask them, "and what studies or surveys did you do to satisfy yourself that this was the best move for increasing goodwill, rather than your own partisan desires?"

I can almost guarantee they will not have done one. They'll just say something like "It's the sense I got from friends and from Twitter and FaceBook."

And then go to the jury.

I don't think a judge can dismiss your ultra vires lawsuit if the corporation can't show it did the most basic, and I do mean basic, due diligence in research to determine if its move, supposed in the corporation's interest to increase goodwill, would or would not increase goodwill.

BTW: I can imagine that many corporations actually do increase goodwill from their intended customers by going hard-left. Starbucks, for example, caters mainly to urbanites and those who crave a "European" experience for the mere price of five and a half bucks for a cup of burned coffee. Liberals, in other words, and nominal conservatives who desire that kind of liberal five-dollar fantasy.

Other corporations which serve similar clientele can prove they're acting within the corporate charter.

But less niche, more ecumenical corporations can't demonstrate this. HBO and Netflix, for example. Conservatives use these services in roughly equal numbers to liberals; we put up with it because we have to -- but it does not increase goodwill.

A nice way to get this ball started is a major boycott of one of just one of these big corporations that has to do business with, uck, conservatives. Something that really puts the hurt on them.

That would demonstrate to judges that such moves can in fact tangibly harm a business, and therefore can be ultra vires. Then they could not dismiss an ultra vires lawsuit claiming "Well, liberals like it and conservatives will tolerate no end of degradation from their corporate masters, so, overall, this does in fact increase goodwill."

Trump, Jr.: So Biden Says He'll Cure Cancer If You Elect Him President.
Why Didn't He Cure Cancer In His Past 50 Years of Holding Elective Office?

—Ace of Spades

Maybe he was permitting cancer to continue killing people in order to hold it over our heads at precisely this moment.

While warming up the crowd at President Trump’s re-election rally in Orlando Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. took a few swipes at the Democratic frontrunner.

"I hear brilliant guys like Joe Biden," he said to the fired-up crowd of some 20,000, "'Government has failed you.' Usually, as he's groping someone."

....

"There’s something off with that guy," Trump Jr. added. "Maybe yo'’re the problem, Joe Biden?" he suggested, referencing his decades in government -- a record which could cause the former vice president problems on key issues like the Hyde Amendment.

The president’s son also ridiculed Biden’s promise that he would "cure cancer" if he was elected president. "Why the hell didn't you do that over the last 50 years, Joe?"

Don Jr. also dubbed Joe Biden with a Low-Energy nickname -- "Floppy Joe." Which I don't think is meant to recall only his flip-flopping.

Earlier in the speech, Trump identified former President Obama taking credit for the good economy as the "stupidest statement in the history of politics and economics."

Trump continued by explaining Biden's "vested interest" in China, telling the crowd, "His son took $1.5 billion from the Chinese government as investment."

"The greatest investors in America have spent years trying to get Chinese money to invest with them. They can't do it. He goes there on a state trip and in ten days he comes back with $1.5 billion. Wonder why?" he said. "Now they're not a threat."

Trump then engaged the crowd with a little "role reversal" game.

"What do you think would be the media's reaction if Donald Trump Jr. took $1.50 from the Chinese? Not $1.5 billion like Joe Biden’s son. Just $1.50."

"They would lose their goddamn minds," he declared before hitting Biden for flip-flopping.

"But you know? Floppy Joe-- Floppy Joe, he's out there flip-flopping on everything. He doesn’t know what the hell he stands for anymore," Trump said, adding that the media will not call him out because "they want him to win."

Not to be outdone by Biden only deciding to do something about cancer after taking a wait-and-see-attitude about it for fifty years, Trump himself promised that the administration was close to curing cancer itself, as well as eradicating AIDS.

President Trump said during his 2020 reelection campaign kickoff speech late Tuesday that his administration is "getting closer” to curing cancer.

"We will push onward with new medical frontiers," Trump told a packed stadium of 20,000 in Orlando, Fla. "We will come up with the cures to many, many problems, to many, many diseases -- including cancer and others -- and we're getting closer all the time."

Trump also made a campaign promise of eradicating AIDS "once and for all," adding that "we’'e very close."

Oh, it's a promise? Was Joe Biden's statement a promise, or just puffery?

That said, there's a lot of promise that AIDS is a disease with a limited future and we might finally be getting cures to many cancers soon.

Alas, we've seen such hopes before. That's why I barely mention them any longer. I don't want to get hopes up.

But still, there are promising new drugs and techniques out there.

By the way, Joe Biden is a leftwing authoritarian. It's that "authoritarian" part that the leftwing media confuses with "being conservative," but it's just that Joe Biden never saw a problem he didn't think some government strongarming -- finding "pretexts" for government coercion -- couldn't fix.

Washington Post: The OJ Simpson Double Knife-Murders Showed That Whites Only Had "Conditional" Support for Black Athletes

—Ace of Spades

And, also, the Tate-LaBianca murders showed that middle class whites only had a conditional level of tolerance for a plucky up-and-coming songwriter from a broken home named Charles Manson.

As John Sexton says, Yes, whites' condition for liking O.J. Simpson was that he not be a double-murderer.

But no, that's not what the Racially Woke Washington Post means. They mean that whites showed their true (lack of) colors by turning on O.J. Simpson because he was black. Apparently they had just figured that out -- rather than figuring out that O.J. Simpson was indeed a murderer, a butcher of human beings.

Anyone old enough to remember remembers this: By the time of the Bronco chase, suspicion that O.J. Simpson was the Butcher of Rockingham had been building for at least a month, maybe a month and a half. The evidence that came trickling out through leaks and official statements seemed to damn him more each day.

The fact that there was an arrest warrant out for O.J. Simpson was merely confirmation that the police and one judge believed what had become clear to most by that point: That O.J. Simpson, former NFL star running back, rental car pitchman, and bad actor in Capricorn One and The Naked Gun, was the sort of man who slit his ex-wife's throat as if she were a cow hanging by chains in an abattoir, and also stabbed to death a bystander returning her sunglasses to her just because he suspected that maybe he was his ex-wife's lover.

Here's the Washington Post, suggesting that whites are now accused of (rolls d20) Withdrawing Goodwill from a Man Simply Because He Murders Two People in a Rage of Sexual Impotency:

The chase not only disrupted the NBA Finals -- it also unsettled the comfort white Americans had developed for black athletes. For years, black athletes, and Simpson in particular, were held up as signs of the progress made toward bridging America's racial divide. That night, however, he served as a stark reminder of how conditional that comfort was.

Supporting someone on the condition that he not murder people does not seem to be a very onerous or racist condition to me. But apparently the Wokeington Post knows differently.

I can only assume that white people are also Tainted by Racism for withdrawing their conditional support for Ray Rice, just a-cause he knocked his fiance out:

Real News CNN Cuts Away From Trump Rally the Moment Trump Starts Criticizing Them

—Ace of Spades

Is this news or not?

Apparently it's "news" for purposes of CNN doing outrage clickbait pieces all day long, but it's not "news" when it comes to actually hearing the criticism unfiltered.

Hey, maybe they should also start censoring Trump's criticism of other ideological opponents, such as the Democratic candidates.

Enemies of the people, and I mean that literally, as Joe Biden would say.

Meanwhile, Don LeMon, who has repeatedly insisted that he is neither partisan nor anti-Trump as the New York Times (itself a leftwing agitprop shop) deems him, calls Trump Hitler, and even Chris Cuomo, another unhinged leftist, is forced to unfurl a caution flag.

Don LeMon doubles down.

So CNN features "all points of view:" those who are certain that Trump is Hitler, and those who find the theory intriguing but still have some questions about it.

Department of Education Investigating Use of Federal Funds to Stage Anti-Israel/Borderline Anti-Semitic Protests on College Campuses

—Ace of Spades

Would a GOPe administration investigate this, or would it just go along to get along?

Gotta keep on "the right side of history," you know.

The Education Department has informed Congress that it is launching an investigation into how $235,000 in federal grants were used to fund a series of anti-Israel events that featured speakers and events tied to Palestinian terror groups organized by Duke University and the University of North Carolina.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos informed Rep. George Holding (R., Ga.), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, that she has directed her agency to investigate how these funds were used and whether they violated grant conditions, according to a letter sent to Holding, who had initially requested an investigation into the anti-Israel conference in April.

...

The conference in question, titled "Conflict over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities," was co-sponsored by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, which reportedly "applied for and received a $235,000 grant through the Department of Education in 2018."

Several of the events held during the conference were organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group that has been at the center of anti-Israel controversy on many U.S. campuses. SJP branches have been known to distribute anti-Semitic propaganda and has been cited by multiple watchdog groups for fostering unsafe environments for Jewish students.

...

Several speakers at the event in question were videotaped discussing how they held meetings with members of the Popular Front for the Liberations of Palestine, or PFLP, which has been designated as a foreign terror organization.

In addition, conference speakers, including Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, who has been accused of spreading anti-Semitism, are said to have repeatedly maligned Israel and pro-Israel Jews.

Meanwhile, this fucking dummy continues to impress:

Democrat Staffer Jackson Cosko, Who Doxxed Senators' and Their Families in "Self-Righteous" Anger Over Their Defense of Brett Kavanaugh, Headed for Prison

—Ace of Spades

Where he belongs.

The Daily Caller News Foundation:

A former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is headed to prison Wednesday for what prosecutors said was the largest known data theft in Senate history.

The former aide, Jackson Cosko, pleaded guilty in April to crimes related to an unparalleled effort to ransack a Senate office, extorting a Democratic senator, illegally harming Republicans for their political views, and blackmailing a witness.

Prosecutors asked for nearly five years in prison for Cosko, a onetime congressional IT aide to Hassan. Cosko admitted he stole the New Hampshire Democrat's data out of revenge for being fired, then used it to doxx Republicans during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

"The government believes that a significant sentence would help to make clear that difference of political opinion do not entitle people to engage in politically motivated, criminal attacks threatening elected officials with whom he disagrees, and would thereby encourage respect for the law, and deter future criminal conduct," prosecutors wrote.

New details emerged in their sentencing memo that made the case of Cosko -- the Bernie Sanders-supporting son of a millionaire San Francisco developer with ties to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- even more shocking.

A second Hassan staffer who was friends with Cosko served as his accomplice in exchange for rent money helped him physically break into the office at night and pilfer internal emails even after he was fired, prosecutors' sentencing memo shows.

The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported that the accomplice, who has since been fired, is Samantha DeForest-Davis. Hassan's office subsequently confirmed her identity, yet DeForest-Davis has not been charged with any crime.

Even after Cosko was arrested and a computer was quarantined, Capitol Police and Senate employees did not realize that keylogger devices were plugged in to many of the office's computers, according to prosecutors. The devices continued to beam every keystroke -- including passwords to personal and business accounts -- over a WiFi signal that could be accessed from the public hallway.

The Senate later realized that it was still being spied on only because Cosko informed government agents of the devices, the memo says. Police still have been unable to detect the devices's WiFi signals, making it impossible to rule out that they aren't plugged in elsewhere in Congress.

Prosecutors said Cosko had "self-righteous entitlement" and a "belief that he could violate the sanctity of the United States Senate at will and threaten individual Senators as he pleased."

He wanted to use stolen data "to punish people who disagreed with his politics" by publishing the personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell, the memo says, which noted that Cosko laughed about his actions.

...

"The defendant operated under the belief that he was entitled to inflict emotional distress upon United States Senators and their families, simply because they disagreed with the defendant and had different political views," prosecutors wrote. "The government believes that there appears to have been an increase in similar criminal harassment, particularly through social media channels, by people across the political spectrum."

...

Prosecutors dismissed arguments by Cosko's team of attorneys that drugs were behind the defendant's behavior and that high-end counseling and treatment paid for by his parents could cure it. They said Cosko's behavior was premeditated and deliberate and that he took pleasure in learning of Republicans' pain.

Prosecutors said Cosko laughed "aha it ruined [Hatch's] wifes birthday [sic]."

Oberlin College has just offered Jackson Cosko a tenured professorship. He will join the Department of Will This Fit In My Butt Studies.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Do you know what a TERF is? It's an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. They're feminists who hate the fact that there are mentally ill men wearing dresses trying to grab some of that sweet, sweet victim status that the feminists believe is exclusively theirs. So this an ongoing woke-vs-woke tussle, and who will win? My guess, the TERFS will lose, well, for one thing, because listen to them: Canadian journalist/hard core feminist Meghan Murphy got into it on Twitter with some trannies and finally ended up saying "Men aren't women tho" and that was what got her suspended, and then permanently banned. I'm not saying the TERFS are going to lose because Twitter is on the other side (although that is a problem for them). I'm saying, instead, look at what she had to resort to in order to make her point. She referred to her statement that men aren't women as 'basic fact' and then went on to say, in her lawsuit against Twitter, that 'treating gender as though it is either internal or a personal choice is dangerous.' In other words, there are some objective, immutable truths that the trannies are ignoring. But in the progressive universe that Murphy inhabits, in the progressive ocean she has spent her entire adult life swimming in, there is no objective truth. That's one of progressivism's foundational tenets. That's one of the weapons they bring out whenever conservatives bring up tradition, or God, or nature, or authority. Pew, pew, pew, down goes tradition, authority, God, the patriarchy, white guys, the whole nine yards. Unfortunately for the TERFs, the trannies are taking the same relativity (or nihilism, whatever) and are now applying it to biology. And why not? Where does it say where the relatively stopping point is? The TERFs have no real argument against this and so Ms. Murphy has to rely on traditional thinking and concepts such as 'basic facts' to fight back - categories that she and her progressive cohorts have scorned and abandoned long ago. She's like a rage-against-my-allowance anarchist who's run away from home but who now has to hit Mom and Dad up for money. The other main reason the TERFs are going to lose is because they're just not woke enough. In any progressive revolution, it's always the super-woke who win out over the woke. She never expected to be in the camps with all of the retrograde deplorables."

This Will Get You Banned On Twitter:

This Is Just Like Wearing A Hijab For A Driver's License Photo:

What could possibly go wrong?https://t.co/mubC3stWJs via @MailOnline

— OregonMuse (@OregonMuse) June 18, 2019

This. Is Going To Be. Epic:

Trump planning to live-tweet first 2020 Democratic debates: report https://t.co/ObrEH6Pzuc pic.twitter.com/464pZApog0

— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2019

Nothing To See Here, Folks. Move Along...

MSM: "Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."

Who Dis:

Who Dis Young Feller:

If you need a clue, here is another photo.

Monday's celebs: Marcello Mastroianni and Michèle Mercier, about whom a lust-crazed moron remarked:

239 I also had to image search today's female who dis, and I too had never heard of her before. But boy oh boy, was she one helluva French-Italian hottie.
ROWR!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 17, 2019 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

Indeed. Unlike Sophia, Gina, Virna, or Claudia, I think Mercier was the European version of what we would call a 'B' actress. In most of her movies, the roles she played could best be described as 'a sweet piece of tail.' She appeared with Mastroianni in the 1965 sex comedy Casanova 70.

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.

Praise and requests for continued prayer:

Michelle’s son who had a bad car accident, has made great progress and is working hard. He will be in rehab, hip fracture too severe so he can’t come home yet. Michelle thanks people for prayers and to asks you please continue with them.

Sock_rat-teez. He had final follow up with surgical team. Waiting for treatment for lung embolism so he can hopefully go for reversal of colostomy surgery in 3 to 6 months. Prayers for complete healing and strength for Mrs. Eeze who has been carrying the load while he’s been sick.

Satrose's husband of 25 years, going to church for past 6 months after never having attended. He is seeking God. She's been praying for him every day for 23 years. Asked for prayers that Sam might accept the Holy Spirit's prompting for salvation.

Tony In Tampa reports that his 92 grandmother has been released from managed care to her home after having a stroke. She made remarkable progress which is a “gift from God.” Tony wanted to send regards and thanks to all who prayed.

Blaster reports that his son dealing with severe depression who had been estranged from his dad invited him to his 18th birthday party and Blaster has seen him several times before the son been moved to a residential facility for 12-20 year olds, six hours away so continued prayers for healing are appreciated.

PhoenixGirls’ daughter who had been in prayer list because of school and relationship issues has graduated with her MA, is working on issues with her bf and has been offered a job teaching English

Updates and new requests:

5/1-Please continue to keep Slapweasel in prayer for a transplant donor and for strength for his caring for his parents.

5/1-Cheribebe says cancer is spreading. She needs new cancer chemo regimen which is very expensive and asks for prayers to God for healing as well as help regarding finances.

5/13 Hrothgar’s friend, a hospice counselor exposed to muriatic acid fumes which damaged lungs and throat. Getting trouble in seeing a competent physician and still having effects from previous car accident-not her fault. Prayers for access to health care and speedy recover.

5/13-Fox2! _friend MaryBeth just diagnosed with aggressive form of bladder cancer. She is not best candidate for best option of Immuno therapy treatment.

5/14-Grumpy’s friend Rhett fell off roof, broke 3 ribs and wrist and has lacerated liver. Now in rehab. Needs prayers for healing.

5/14-Kraken’s friend died, and Kraken’s dog of 12 years died as well. Prayers for all concerned.

5/14-Tami’s daughter had cancer surgery, Prayers for complete healing.

5/21-Poster Circa’ s brother is batting cancer. Prayers for complete healing are greatly appreciated

5/21 VN Red Leg Recently had prostrate removed. Surgery was successful but cancer has gotten into lymph nodes. Waiting until July 1st for next PSA test to see if he needs radiation and hormone therapy, Will be meeting with doctor and nurse on 30th to discuss next step. Praying for mercy and
healing.

5/27-redc1c4's Dad getting radiation and aggressive chemo for multiple myeloma at City of Hope. Short term prognosis is unknown. Long term prognosis is "terminal." Prayers for wisdom and insight for doctors, strength and healing for he and his family. Prostate cancer is next on list if multiple myleoma can be dealt with.

5/27-Old Dog in Missouri's wife has come home as of last update Fenelon had. Prayers for complete healing for her from cancer and strength for dear Old Dog and his daughter who are with her around the clock.

5-28-Bye Gone asked for prayer for friend Scott M. recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and needs a miracle of healing.

5-28-Fixerupper's mother, Dorothy, is having kidney function issues and will need to start dialysis if specialist can't improve kidney function. Prayers for complete healing.

5/28-Fenelon asks for prayers for healing for Jessie, the very dear but elderly organist who is having terrible pain with repeated gallstones even though her gallbladder has been removed. Also prayer for “Lil” recovering from valve replacement

6/1 Farmer had fall and is now in his second cast, It’s hard to be laid up. Please pray for complete healing.

6/1-Rickl had been hospitalized for issues related to his brain tumor but is home now. Please pray for his healing.

6/1-USNtakin and wife-He and his wife need help with major mobility issues and pain

6/5-Fenelon’s son is having mental health issues. Please pray for healing and that he be able to take a summer class at Community college.

6/6-Suzanne’s friend, Kevin, was told he has 6 months to live. He is praying for a miracle.

6/7-Poster “ Bete in reflection”has cancer and needs healing.

6/7- Prayers forJane Doh’s husband and Jane as they deal with his diabetes diagnosis. Prayers for wisdom for doctors as they deal with this condition.

6/7-Natrium’s father-in-law, a retired lieutenant colonel is dying. Comfort and peace for his wife and her dad.

6/10-Antisocialist after a year and a half of clean scan and good blood work, something came up on last CT scan. Antisocialist is scared and asked for prayers.

6/11-Hogmartin grandmother, Sophia, was admitted to ER. Had arterial bleed. At her age, surgery is not an option. Hogmartin asked for comfort, peace, and healing.

6/11-redc1c4’s dad moved to a new nursing station where they could monitor his health. Prayers that the apparent progress of his dad continues. Wisdom and insight for caregivers trying to understand the medical sidebar mysteries, as well as understanding and strength for those who care for him daily. They need it as well as the rest of the family.

6/11-redc1c4 asked for prayers for “Doc and his wife” on ward A at City of Hope hospital. He was a medis in Vietnam. His Wife has inoperable liver cancer. Prayers for healing, strength, peace, and wisdom for caregivers and generally for family to bear burdens.

6/19-Please pray for BackwardsBoy so that rough places may be made smooth for he and Backwards Gal. Note: He didn’t ask for this, but he has been on the list before. and I know things are difficult right now and we care about him-Fenelon

6/19 Hrothgar’s SIL has an elderly beloved pastor of a tiny but vibrant church of older folks. “Sister Charlotte” needs healing of heart issues so that she can return to being that congregations shepherdess

6/19 Bluebell appreciated prayers for healing of her eye. She is going back to doctor June 24th

Job needs:

Fenelon’s congregant “D” is waiting to hear about a job in his field. He is exhausted driving for Uber.

Emperor County Boy asked for prayers for wisdom and guidance and direction in his job search and in other areas.

Insommniac Is looking for job.

PDX Republican needs sedentary PT job.

Fenelon’s Spouse is looking for FT job

Wednesdays are days in which mothers in the horde and anyone else says special prayers for children of horde members. Please include the grandchildren as well.

Please note; Prayer requests are generally removed after five weeks or so unless I receive an update. This in NOT because we don’t care; It’s simply because of lack of space. Updates as well as thanks for answered prayer and new prayer requests are always welcomed.

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!

FenelonDirection18 at gmail dot com

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:

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

Bonus: Who Dis Band?

The answer may surprise you.

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Close it up

Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

Madonna With The Long Neck
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (Parmigianino)

The Morning Report - 6/19/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Midweek with lots of ground to cover so here we go. First up, to the border we go where the President not just threw red meat, but an entire herd of cattle still mooing with his statement that he was going to begin deporting "millions" of illegal aliens beginning next week. Even my first instinct was to look at this as either a misstatement or a wild boast, but given the fact that Donald Trump is arguably the only elected official I can think of who never gives up on at least giving 110% of his energy to fulfilling his promises, he certainly has now got my attention with that statement. Aside from non-enforcement of immigration laws and border controls already on the books, the key reason that 30-40 million illegal aliens have jumped our border is unfettered access to the pockets of the American taxpayer. I don't know how the President intends on following through on deporting millions, but I can guarantee that if you disincentivize them from coming here in the first place, and cut off those already in-country, Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound" will be the combined footsteps of foreigners going south, and not American jobs and our economy down the crapper. Plus, imprison and confiscate the assets of any company and its executives who knowingly employ illegal aliens.

I guess the fly in the ointment to that is not only the opposition from the Democrats in DC and in blue shit-hole city halls and state houses, but the bought and paid-for CoC-whores of the GOP-e who will suddenly discover the wonders of Federalism in citing the 10th Amendment, ironically to uphold lawlessness that will be given the imprimatur of the Roberts-led SCOTUS. How coincidental that Andrew Cuomo passed a law in New York granting driver's licenses to illegal aliens which really means instant voter registration, no doubt 100% Democrat. Circling back to yesterday, California's Gavin "Threesome" Newsom boasted about how California's becoming a de-facto Socialist dictatorship is a harbinger for the rest of America. Well, it only got that way after a rogue judge dumped Prop 187, a wildly popular ballot initiative that sought to protect the voter rolls from illegals, and allowed the invasion of the once Golden State to turn it (seemingly) permanently Democrat. So, yes indeed, ramp up the deportations of anyone and everyone here illegally, no matter how long they have been here, pour encourager les autres. And as for California, strip it of statehood. It is now essentially an enemy nation on our western border, as is New York and all the other bastions of Marxism scattered all over the map. The actions of Cuomo, Newsom and their fellow tyrants in passing blatantly illegal laws as well as ignoring laws already on the books and the Constitution itself are tantamount to insurrection. The problem is the entrenched bureaucracy and dangerously corrupt judiciary that will fight all efforts to rectify the situation, which could not have happened in the first place had the ground rules been observed in the first place. Once again, the problem of trying to reestablish the rule of law and respect for our Constitution with an enemy that ignores it at every turn. But I digress.

The links in this section include ICE publishing a list of criminal aliens shielded by sanctuary cities, Feds warning of deported criminals reentering the US under cover of the migrant invaders, Senate GOP fecklessness on the crisis, while Julian Castro, the son of a rabid La Raza racialist, assures us that the border has never been more secure and Nancy Palsi's dentures rattle out bilge about DACAns being the real Americans or something.

On to the Clinton/Obama Coup and Congressional Persecution of Trump, where the President has instructed former White House staffer Hope Hicks not to testify about her work in the administration, Manhattan prosecutors persecutors have caved to the DoJ and will not chuck political prisoner Paul Manafort in Rikers Island, yes it is well past time to string up Andrew McCabe and it's curious why no one is interested in looking for Hillary's e-mails.

Dem Scandal Sheet: Crooked Chicago machine pol charged with fraud fresh off attending a Joe Bidet fundraiser.

Civil War 2.0: Joe Bidet seems to endorse starting a revolution when Republicans refuse to cooperate. Another lover of Durbin-linked "Hodgkinson's" Disease?

The big story in politics was the President's rally in Orlando last night to kick off his 2020 reelection campaign. The Amway Arena was packed to the rafters as he and VP Pence hit on the themes of the roaring economy, foreign policy leadership and sanity, packing the courts with non-Marxists, the border crisis, the sanctity of human life and the insanity of the Democrat-Left-Media Complex. Compare and contrast with Tom Styrene's impeachment follies, Eric Swallowswell's NRA protest and the shuttering of the Bialystock and Bloom Clinton roadshow. Yup. It's gonna be an early night for sure. Again.

Next up we have big-boobed, bucktoothed, bug-eyed and brain-dead Bolshevik Chiquita Khruschev AOC now quadrupling down on her completely insane comparison of ICE detaining illegal aliens to, you guessed it: The Holocaust. Despite being ripped to shreds by everyone from Dan Crenshaw, Liz Cheney, Steven Crowder and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the dolt is quadrupling down on her assertions. I almost want her not to lose her House Seat because if any reasonable person gets within earshot of her donkey chompers when they get going, that's one less vote for a Democrat anywhere. Also, Joey Bidet wants a revolution and yet he says he feels like he has a target on his back, Trump is about to get an AOSHQ platinum membership with diamond clusters for saying he'll live-Tweet the Democrat debates, polls showing black Americans feel he's done more for them than his predecessor, Eliot Engel targeted for termination by the Joo-haters for criticizing his incest aficionado Joo-hater colleague, severely heterosexual Booker criticized by his fans for his severely incompetent mayoralty of Newark, five -count 'em five! - big essays on the insane policy platform of the Dem 2020 field, chicks tend to vote Democrat (go figure), and wrapping up with three links on the push for slavery reparations for people at least four generations removed from ancestors who were slaves. Still waiting for my check from Egypt for the pyramids, yo.

First Amendment and Fake News Fakery: Agitprop Media circles the wagons around Chiquita Khruschev, is antitrust the way to go in dealing with Big Brother Big Tech, South Carolina Dems are as transparent as a Christo's lead curtain wrapping the Gowanus Canal, and a frightening look at Big Tech bugging all of us.

Guns: Dallas shooter at a courthouse was met with immediate armed response. But, gun-free zones!

Abortion: Planned Parenthood's last stand in Missouri? And blonde blowhard Gillibrand doubles down on banning any and all pro-lifers from any judgeship. You're gonna have to go a lot more radical than merely silencing political opposition, chunky, if you want to elevate your dead candidacy.

Foreign Desk: The Iran situation tops the category with Mike Pompeo addressing all the war-war talk, yes we should be promoting regime change in Iran and Caroline Glick looks at the complicity of the Euro-Peons in propping up the Farsis, David Reaboi gives a lecture on the threat from Qatar and the fecklessness of our own side in dealing with them, and Trump has some words about the European Central Bank, mostly not kind.

DEE-Fense: Military warning about the Chi-Com 5-G infestation vis a vis our military hardware.

Domestic Desk: Patrick Shanahan withdraws from consideration as Defense Secretary amid growing domestic abuse allegations (meh, we need a tough guy here, no? [sarc]), and two essays about Zimbabwe on the Pacific.

The Economy: Bernie's commie idea about employee ownership is actually a red nether hair away from being almost capitalist, President Trump awards Art Laffer the Medal of Freedom, which is appropriate since his ideas generated close to 100 trillion with a "t" dollars in global wealth, and the White House Economic Adviser assures us Trump is serious about deficit/debt reduction. I did not hear the rally but if he mentioned it in Orlando, that's a good sign. But I doubt it.

Crime & Punishment: former gym teacher pretends he's Joe Bidet and gets charged with 28 counts of fondling first-graders, and the Oberlin penalty could be a hollow victory as, ironically, GOP-led tort reform in Ohio could significantly reduce the money they have to pay. Ugh; that means the SJW Nazis will be emboldened in the future.

Education: Dennis Prager wants to know what mental disorders did your kids come home from college with and the Department of Education is investigating the Jew-hatred at Duke and UNC. Good for Betsy DeVos. She seems to be accomplishing much on the down low.

Feminazism, Homosexualization, Transgender Psychosis: 2020 Dems all endorse bill destroying female sports by allowing male freaks to compete, MasterCard no longer requires a legal name if it hurts your identity (insane), Psychology Today utterly devolves to rag status, and a look at this sick Muslim practice of "bacha bazi" and what it portends for what I predict is the ultimate normalization of pedophilia in the US.

Hither and Yon: Even Marxist icon Woody Guthrie gets swept up in the SJW cultural revolution and lastly multiculturalism is indeed a cancer on a free, prosperous society.

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.

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION BORDER WALL, BORDER SECURITY

• Trump Says He Will Begin Deporting "Millions" of Illegal Aliens Next Week
  
• ICE Releases List Of Criminal Illegal Aliens Protected By Sanctuary Laws
  
• Senate Republicans Are Now Weaker On the Border Than Obama Was in 2014
  
• Deported Criminal Aliens Cross Into US with Large Migrant Groups, Say Feds
  
• Julian Castro: "Our Border Is as Secure as It Ever Has Been"
  
• Loophole In Law Granting Illegal Aliens Driver's Licenses Could Lead to Vote Fraud (that's a feature, not a loophole - jjs)
  
• Nancy Palsi Explains Why This Group of Illegal Aliens "Make America More American" (DACAns, so, no they don't - jjs)

  CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION
  

• Trump Instructs Hope Hicks Not To Testify About White House Work
  
• Manhattan Prosecutors Cave on Manafort Rikers Scheme After DoJ Note
  
• Time to Indict McCabe, Not Impeach Trump
  
• Why Wasn't Everyone Looking for Hillary's Missing Emails?

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

• Chicago Democrat Who Attended Joe Bidet Fundraiser Charged With Fraud

  CIVILWAR 2.0
  

• Joe Bidet Suggests Starting "Physical Revolution" To Deal With Republicans

  POLITICS
  

• Trump Packs Amway Arena to Launch 2020 Reelection Bid
  
• Texans Crenshaw and Crowder Slam Chiquita Khruschev AOC For Concentration Camp Remarks
  
• Chiquita Khruschev Explodes After Cheney Correctly States Horrors of the Holocaust
  
• Joe Bidet Warns Supporters: "There's a Target on My Back"
  
• Report: Trump to Live-Tweet First Democrat Debate (tell me he doesn't lurk here! - jjs)
  
• Poll: Trump Better for Black Americans Than Obama
  
• Trump Finds Agreement from People You Wouldn't Expect
  
• Longtime Congressman Eliot Engel Who Has Criticized Bro-Fo Omar Faces "Justice Democrats"-Backed Primary Challenger
  
• Booker Supporters Criticize Record as Newark Mayor
  
• This Week, 2020 Dems Are Trying to Sell You Draconian Gun Control, Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens, and More Debt (they've been doing that for decades - jjs)
  
• Learning Nothing from Yesterday: Progressive Spending Plans Are a Retread From 1966
  
• Fauxca-Has-Been Warren: Get Rid of Filibuster to Push Wealth Tax Proposal Through Congress
  
• McCaughey: 2020 Democrats' Hope-Killing Anti-Poverty Promises
  
• On Women and How They Vote
  
• The Democrat Twenty Plus Three
  
• Cocaine Mitch Opposes Slavery Reparations: "No One Currently Alive Was Responsible for That"
  
• What Should Be Paid to the Descendants of Free Blacks Who Owned Black Slaves?
  
• Greenfield: Slavery Reparations for Millionaires

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  

• Media Propagandists Defend Chiquita Khruschev AOC's "Concentration Camp" Remarks
  
• Antitrust: The Only Remedy to Big Tech Bias?
  
• South Carolina Dems Bar Major News Outlets From Convention
  
• They Are Watching Us... All the Time

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• Unsuccessful Dallas Shooter Was Met With Armed Resistance

  ABORTION
  

• Last Planned Parenthood in Missouri Could Lose License
  
• Abortion Absolutist Gillibrand Doubles Down On Claim That Pro-Lifers Should Not Be Judges

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  

• Pompeo Responds To Rumors Of War With Iran
  
• Ted Cruz Proposes Important Amendment To Finally End Iran's Civil-Nuclear Waivers
  
• Promote Regime Change in Iran
  
• Glick: Why Foreign Governments Are Shielding Iran Despite the Regime's Escalating Aggression
  
• David Reaboi Lectures on Security Threats Posed by Qatar and the Fecklessness of Those Who Should Know Better
  
• Trump Criticizes European Central Bank's Tactics

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
  

• Military Warns China's 5G Interferes with US Weapons

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  

• Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan Withdraws Nomination As Domestic Violence Incidents Surface
  
• California Unplugged: To Prevent Wildfires, Entire State's Power Grid Subject to Planned Blackouts
  
• The Denizens of Tentopolis

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  

• Bernie's (Almost) Good Idea
  
• President Trump Awards Arthur Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  
• White House Economic Advisor Says Trump is "Really Serious About the Deficit" (did he mention it once last night in Orlando? - jjs)

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  

• Former Gym Teacher Facing Sex Charges After Allegedly Inappropriately Touching 28 First Grade Girls (if only he was a former veep running for the Democrat nomination - jjs)
  
• Irony: Ultra-Liberal Oberlin College Will Save Millions on Gibson's Bakery Verdicts Thanks to Republican Tort Reform

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  

• Prager: Did Your Child Return From College a Better Person?
  
• Dept. of Education Investigating Anti-Israel Events at UNC, Duke

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

• 2020 Democrats Endorse Bill Forcing Male Athletes Into Girls' Sports
  
• In Support Of Transgender Psychotics, Mastercard No Longer Requires a Legal Name
  
• Psychology Today: People Refusing To Date Transgender Psychotics Is "Dehumanizing"
  
• Bacha Bazi and the Left's Promotion of Gender Fluidity (all roads lead to the normalization of pedophilia in the USA - jjs)

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  

• This Land Is Not Your Land: "Woke Culture" Now Demanding Leftist Icon Woody Guthrie Be Canceled Over Folk Music Faux Pas
  
• Multiculturalism Is a Nation Killer

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (6/18/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

You're indeed fortunate none of the roadworkers going about their jobs were injured, or killed ... that could easily have occurred. It's mindless driving conduct on your part, whichever way you look at it. Judge Richard Russell

Quote II

"Grid girls belong in Formula 1 as much as the cars do. Only an idiot sees a beautiful woman as a problem. The rest of the people love it." Roy van Alast

Quote III

“It sounds to me like he is looking for some way to take offense. There is no way we won’t address this problem appropriately. We have in the past and we will again in the future.” Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Quote IV

“That’s a very good question. The hope is that over time they can become capable of governing.” Jared Kushner

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There is a special place in hell for this woman. Woman drowns her elderly golden retriever.

A heartless New Hampshire woman pushed her elderly golden retriever into a lake and did nothing as the helpless dog drowned, according to a new report.

Nancy Bucciarelli, 66, was walking 11-year-old Bailey around Naticook Lake in Merrimack on June 8 when the pooch became winded, local station WMUR reported.

Bucciarelli allegedly shoved the already weakened Bailey into the lake from a dock at Wasserman Park — leaving the dog to struggle in the water.

Witnesses came to Bailey’s aid, but it was already too late, Merrimack Police Chief Denise Roy told the station.

Don't worry folks it's only a misdemeanor.

***

Son-of-A-Bitch. Now I'm regretting the boot from Twitter.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, President Trump plans to live tweet the first Democrat presidential debate. Because everyone and their momma’s dog has decided to run for president in the Democrat primary this year, the debate will be spread across two days with 10 candidates participating each day.

That should be a hoot.

***

How can The ONT delicately dance around this issue? Premeditated homicide is wrong. Sharing a video of a mass murder is downright disgusting. What happens when you don't have a First Amendment right? Serious jail time in New Zealand.

Philip Arps was sentenced in a New Zealand court today for sharing video of the Christchurch massacre, a terrorist attack on two mosques that killed 51 people on March 15. Arps, who has compared himself favorably to Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, pleaded guilty to two counts of sharing the video and received a sentence of 21 months in prison for sending it to roughly 30 people.

Arps told the judge overseeing his case that video of the bloody massacre was “awesome,” according to New Zealand news outlet RNZ and he even asked one person to add crosshairs and a body count graphic to “make it more fun.” Dead children are plainly visible among the many bodies of victims in the video.

The terrorist attack was livestreamed on Facebook for 17 minutes before being taken down by the social media giant, but the video circulated online for days as companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube scrambled to delete it.

New Zealand’s top government censor quickly moved to classify the Christchurch video as “objectionable” in the wake of the terrorist shootings allegedly committed by Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian national who pleaded not guilty to the murders last week. New Zealand has a common law tradition of free expression, but the government can declare certain controversial materials as illegal to own and distribute.

The problem with "Controversial" is the old slippery slope.

***

Becoming a doctor is a difficult. I can't imagine being a pediatric physician working with children who have cancer. Dr. Alastair McAlpine asks terminally ill children what really matters in life.

Dr. Alastair McAlpine spends every day caring for children with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses, working for the non-profit organization PaedsPal.

McAlpine recently decided to ask his terminally-ill patients what they enjoyed most in life and then shared their answers on Twitter.

In a tweet, he explained: “For an assignment, I asked some of my terminal pediatric palliative care patients what they had enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning. Kids can be so wise, y’know.”

All of these children are between the ages of four and nine years old. Even though they are young, they still managed to hit the nail on the head when it comes to what makes life worth living.

***

Marketing genius?

In a marketing gimmick that was almost definitely conceived after several bong rips, Kraft has officially introduced a new product that it calls “Salad Frosting.” It is — spoiler — ranch dressing, packaged in a festive squeeze bag. In a release, Kraft calls it “a match for dinnertime bliss.” In our mind, Grub Street calls it “the logical conclusion of the American Experiment.”

***

Mark Dice reviews Jim Acosta's recent book and CNN in general.

***

As usual, the Left is silent.

Iran’s foreign minister reaffirmed last week his country's right to execute people for homosexual behavior.

Mohammad Javad Zarif defended the practice of killing gay people by saying that “these are moral principles concerning the behavior of people in general,” in an interview with German magazine Bild .

After the comments became public, the Jerusalem Post contacted U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who said that such behavior from Iran “[violates] basic UN principles. UN members should agree with the Declaration in order to be members. Criminalizing homosexuality violates the Declaration, plain and simple.”

I wonder what the tax cheating Congress critter from Minneapolis has to say?

***

A look at Wisconsin the Dairy State...........

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Quite the dilemma, if you are a gun owner. Do you choose to use medically approved marijuana for a medical condition? Or choose to own firearms?

As more states legalized medical marijuana — let alone recreational use — the Congress will face more pressure to ease federal laws prohibiting gun ownership for those who use weed.

Across the country, states have incrementally embraced legalizing medical marijuana despite its federal classification as a Schedule 1 controlled substance. Federal law enforcement has largely looked the other way, deferring to state legislatures when it comes to medical cannabis — but not when it comes to guns, which are illegal to buy under federal law if you use marijuana.

***

What's going on in the Dominican Republic?

For decades, the Dominican Republic has been one of the most popular spots in the Caribbean for Americans to visit. Its proximity to the U.S. mainland, crystal clear waters, and an absolute glut of all-inclusive resorts have made it the obvious choice for millions of U.S. travelers — to the tune of 2.1 million visitors in 2017 alone. But a recent spate of mysterious tourist deaths on the island has would-be visitors rethinking whether it’s safe to go to the Dominican Republic.

There haven’t been any clear answers yet as to why these deaths have occurred and whether they are related. Toxicology reports are out in all cases (with the FBI helping). Meanwhile, Dominican officials insist it’s still safe to visit the island — but with at least seven deaths and dozens of cases of extreme illness on record, it makes sense for holidaymakers to be a little wary.

***

Why do dogs possess the Paedomorphic facial expression? Why do dogs look sad?

Humans domesticated dogs about 30,000 years ago. Since then, we've worked with them, hunted with them, played with them, and come to rely on them for companionship. And, in the process, we've bred them for everything from general cuteness to the ability to guard and fight for us. Figuring out who's manipulating whom and who's getting more out of the relationship is a hopeless task.

But that doesn't mean that some aspects of the changes dogs have undergone aren't amenable to study. After studying the facial muscles of dogs and wolves, a US-UK team of researchers has now found that dogs have two muscles that wolves mostly lack. These muscles control the movements of the face near the eyes, and the researchers suspect that the muscles' presence helps the dogs make a sad-eyed face that we find appealing.

***

Is AOC a thin skinned little bitch person?

The freshman New York Democrat “unleashed her lawyer” on Latino activist Ramon Ramirez, a former campaign aide who wrote a book about her improbable 2018 win, the New York Post reported.

Ocasio-Cortez defeated an incumbent Democratic, former Rep. Joseph Crowley, who was ranked 4th in the party at the time.

But the democratic socialist isn’t looking to share the wealth, as she had her lawyer send a cease and desist letter to Ramirez for a self-published memoir titled, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Democrats’ Surprise.”

The cease and desist letter claims Ramirez’s efforts, which includes a second book he has written, according to the Post, “seek to profit off the Congresswoman’s name and likeness, without her involvement or permission.”

***

AT&T too big to fail? It is in the process of cutting jobs. Lots of jobs.

About two years after Dallas-based AT&T championed corporate tax cuts and pledged they'd lead to job creation, the company plans to cut nearly 2,000 jobs, according to the telecom union that represents its workers.

Officials from Communications Workers of America say AT&T began notifying employees Thursday about the upcoming cuts. It will eliminate 1,880 jobs by the end of September in 23 states, including Texas and Oklahoma, the union said. The cuts are aimed at technicians, such as those who do home installations or lay fiber optic cable.

***

The ONT Musical Interlude

Thoughts and prayers for singer/songwriter Dave Mustaine.

&&&

Now, that's Diversity.

***

He'll have fun, fun, fun until Daddy takes the internet away. Genius Award Winner.

A gaming addict allegedly tried to poison his own parents after they forced him to stop playing - by unplugging the internet router.

Sak Duanjan, 29, returned home drunk and started playing games on his smartphone with the volume turned up while his parents were trying to sleep, it is claimed.

His stepfather, Chakri Khamruang, 52, said he woke up and unplugged the wi-fi box, attempting to stop Sak from disturbing other people at home.

***

The universal blood type? O. Now all types can be converted to O. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have figured out how to convert blood types A, B and AB into the universal Type O, which all patients can receive in a transfusion regardless of their own blood type.

Enzymes can be used to convert A and B type red blood cells into O type, however, the enzymes available to date have not worked well on whole blood.

That was until scientists considered looking inside the human gut.

"The human gut is covered with mucins, large glycoproteins presenting a variety of glycan structures on their surface, including those of the blood group antigens," said Peter Rahfeld, a researcher at the University of British Columbia.

***

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Close it up

Former GOPe Official and Bill Kristol Confederate David Jolly: I Know a School Shooter When I See One, and I See One In... Kyle Kushav
Plus: Trump and Pence Kickoff Reelection Campaign in Orando

—Ace of Spades

Quick, let's give these Quislings and traitors control of the party back before they get so mad they refuse to take it!

Reacting to Harvard's decision to pull Parkland shooting survivor and right-wing pundit Kyle Kashuv's admission over past racial slurs, former Republican Rep. David Jolly asserted Tuesday that the racist messages Kashuv sent to classmates were the hallmarks of a mass shooter.

Now watch: this True Con and permanent guest on MSNBC is about to accuse a school shooting survivor of being a likely school shooter himself:

"And he referred to one of the shoot-'em-up video games and said they should put a map of that on his high school," Jolly exclaimed.""And this was two years before Parkland. And my immediate reaction when I really dug into this, these are the social media postings we see of a shooter and we ask, 'Where were the signs?'"

The former Florida congressman added: "See something, say something. We see a shooter and then we go back and look at social media posts and this is exactly what we see. I understand the sensitivity of this man because of Parkland. I'm not a mental health professional to assess him on those grounds."

Even the deranged harpy Stephanie Ruhle said this was going too far. But the carnival geek David Jolly, putting on his freak show for the punters at MSNBC twice a week, insisted he wasn't.

Meanwhile, I'm sure some of you are already screaming inside your heads:

Wait a minute, David Jolly is accusing Kyle Kashuv of being a potential mass-murderer, but didn't David Jolly himself... Kill a Man?

Why yes he did, Dear Reader. Yes he did.

"Republicans for the Rule of Law," indeed.

David Jolly's car has killed more men than Kyle Kashuv's google docs ever will.

"True Conservatives"

They're diseased whores who used to suck off the right for money, and now they suck off the left. Either way, their only marketable skill is sucking people off.

Below: the 2020 campaign kickoff rally in Orlando.

LOLGF'd: Soyboy Betas and Femcel Thick-Fingered Goblins Shriek Over Shaft Sequel for Its "Toxic Masculinity" and For Laughing at Millennials and Woke Sissies

—Ace of Spades

I've never wanted to see a movie more.

Rachel Maddow Is Love-Bombing the New York Times -- Mentioning Them Positively 18 Times in a Single 45 Minute Hour Long Show -- To Get Them to Let Their Reporters Come On Her Crooked Conspiracy-Theory Showcase Again

—Ace of Spades

Sad!

In the wake of the New York Times barring reporters from going on her conspiracy-theory cavalcade, she's teleflirting with them like crazy.

From FoxNews:

Maddow -- and occasional fill-in hosts -- have mentioned the New York Times at least a whopping 41 times on her show since May 30, when Vanity Fair reported that the paper wanted its reporters to stay far away from far-left and far-right programs. That included Maddow's, because it was too liberal, even for the paper that is often considered left-leaning itself. The staggering 41 mentions over only 13 episodes does not include guests, who have also evoked the Times on "The Rachel Maddow Show."

Maddow's obsession to make nice with the Gray Lady reached new heights on Monday night, when she mentioned the paper 18 times in one hour.

That weird-looking dude with the big nose is weird.

Angela Merkel Shakes Uncontrollably At Event in Berlin

—Ace of Spades

She's powering through, though, so don't worry about it!

Thanks to Meade Lux Lewis.

Today's high temperature in Berlin was 86 degrees Farenheit. Humidity was at 42%.

She needs an open border policy for electrolytes, is what she needs.

If I had to render a remote medical diagnosis via the internet -- and why shouldn't I, Democrats are inviting quacks to DC to do the same thing -- this looks like hypoglecemia to me.

She might be diabetic, and took too much insulin, resulting in too-low blood glucose.

Springtime For Hitler, Part 2: Play About the Passionate, Deliriously Sexual Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton Closes Early Due to Lack of Interest

—Ace of Spades

Probably just because it was too hot for the bourgeoisie.

The Broadway show "Hillary and Clinton," based on the lives of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will end early due to low ticket sales.

...

The show is set in a New Hampshire hotel room in 2008, where the fictional couple named Hillary Clinton, played by Laurie Metcalf, and Bill Clinton, played by John Lithgow, discuss the former secretary of state's presidential run and then-Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's growing success.

Oh, it's about discussions. Sexy!

No, but really, some reviews of the play were negative because, the reviewer felt, Hillary Clinton was depicted as being "cold" and emotionally brittle -- which we all know can't possibly be true -- and because the play depicted the Clinton's marriage as not as loving as liberals, apparently, believe it to be.

It seems positively ungenerous at this point to have Bill Clinton regurgitate the standard criticisms tossed at his wife during both of her ill-fated campaigns for the presidency -- that she's cold, unemotional, wooden, boring, lacking humanity. Unless, of course, the playwright were going to temper that view by exposing a different side to counter those tired dismissals. Alas, that's not the case, Metcalf's mercurial performance aside. ..

Perhaps one of the most interesting angles of Hnath's play is that while many of us assume the Clintons have a resilient pact of solidarity and friendship, able to withstand experiences that would break most marriages, the playwright has them living almost separate lives.

What a fucking idiot.

Note that her first criticism is that the play offers a standard conventional-wisdom view of Hillary Clinton, and doesn't offer any subversions of that, and the next criticism is that the play doesn't offer what "many of us assume" to be the truth of the Clinton's marriage, instead offering... a subversion of that.

Her problem isn't that the play offers "what we all assume" or don't assume, as she has contradictory criticisms along those lines. But in both cases, her criticism is that Hillary and Bill Clinton aren't depicted positively enough.

That's her real criticism, which she, like most media liberals, attempts to disguise by talking about other criteria.

But her sole criteria of evaluation is, "Did this play spread the progressive propaganda view of the world aggressively enough?"

Politicized reviewers, demanding that works of art deliver them properly #Wokefied fantasies.

Why not just appoint Rachel Maddow as the nation's official movie, book, and play reviewer?

Thanks to J.J. Sefton (and JAS!) for pointing out that this sounds like a Bialystock and Bloom scam.

Female Track Runner, Sidelined Due to Boys' Making the Girls' Team Ahead of Her, Plans to File Title IX Complaint

—Ace of Spades

Her theory -- and see if you can follow this arcane argument -- is that Title IX, being enacted to promote girls sports to an equal (or, let's face it, superior) level to boys' sports, is being violated when schools start filling their "girls" sports rosters with boys.

I know that's really convoluted logic, but we'll just have to see.

High school track runner Selina Soule is speaking her mind…to the government.

Selina was recently sidelined by not one but two men who beat her: After finishing behind a group that included a couple dudes in the 55-meter dash, she was unable to compete in the New England regionals.

She said she was being retaliated against by school officials for complaining:

"I've gotten nothing but support from my teammates and from other athletes, but I have experienced some retaliation from school officials and coaches. … I've gotten some very difficult requests for me to complete in practice, and if I don't fulfill these requests, then I can’t compete at all. And this never happened before. It only started after my parents met with the school principal."

State Department Details 23 Security Violations and Possible Hacking Incidents in Hillary Clinton's Illegal Server System

—Ace of Spades

Now they tell us.

All I see here is a big pile of lack of intent.

The State Department revealed Monday that it has identified "multiple security incidents" involving current or former employees' handling of Hillary Clinton's emails, and that 23 "violations" and seven "infractions" have been issued as part of the department's ongoing investigation.

The information came in a letter to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is responsible for overseeing the security review.

"To this point, the Department has assessed culpability to 15 individuals, some of whom were culpable in multiple security incidents," Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the State Department's Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, wrote to Grassley. "DS has issued 23 violations and 7 infractions incidents. ... This number will likely change as the review progresses."

...

The document release revealed numerous episodes in which the Clinton team either suspected it had been hacked or seemingly acknowledged that security measures had come up short.

"omg," top Clinton aide Huma Abedin wrote to Justin Cooper, the technology pro overseeing Clinton's private home-based email servers, when he told her shortly after midnight on Jan. 9, 2011, that "someone was trying to hack us."

If you recall, the Justice Department imposed a ludicrously narrow definition of what emails Clinton had to turn over -- something that looked like the Justice Department was actively on Clinton's side in trying to hide her emails from them, and the public.

It looks more like that now:

And in March, it was revealed that the Justice Department "negotiated" an agreement with Clinton's legal team that ensured the FBI did not have access to emails on her private servers relating to the Clinton Foundation. Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok testified about the arrangement during a closed-door appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last summer, according to a transcript released this year.

"A significant filter team" was employed at the FBI, Strzok said, to "work through the various terms of the various consent agreements." Limitations imposed on agents' searches included date ranges and names of domains and people, Strzok said, among other categories.

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Former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee until 2017 and is now a Fox News contributor, said the arrangement signaled that agents wanted willful blindness.

Follow the Money: John Cusack's an Anti-Semite But He Won't Be Losing Any Harvard Commencement Address Gigs

—Ace of Spades

John Cusack retweeted an antisemitic meme, then defended doing so four times, and then claimed that a right-wing "bot" tricked him into retweeting it or something.

If I had my way, John Cusack would be permitted to tweet memes that contain centuries-old antisemitic tropes without much consequence.

But these are the left's rules -- and I can't help noticing they seem to only apply to the right.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

Look how well this poll worked out for good old Jeb Bush! As much as we want to know what is coming, we simply can't predict anything this far out. Biden and several other frothing-at-the-mouth Democrats are beating President Trump in the polls? Sure...I'll buy that. How many people are actually taking this stuff seriously 16 months before the election? Not many...of that I am sure. Only political junkies and the propagandists in the media care about these things, and they pimp them to manipulate public opinion.

Jeb Bush surges to lead GOP pack in new 2016 poll

1. Jeb Bush 22%

2. Scott Walker 17%

3. Marco Rubio 14%

4. Ben Carson 11%

5. Mike Huckabee 9%

6. Rand Paul 7%

7. Rick Perry 5%

8. Ted Cruz 4%

9. Chris Christie 4%

10. Carly Fiorina 2%

11. Donald Trump 1%

12. Lindsey Graham 1%

13. John Kasich 1%

14. Bobby Jindal 0%

15. Rick Santorum 0%

16. George Pataki 0%

No, I'm not confident at all that they will do their job. It is up to the voters...the Trump supporters who fought and beat the inside-the-beltway corporatists in 2016 to do it again, and maybe get rid of a bunch of the wishy-washy crypto-Never-Trumpers while they are at it.

Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

The Black Brunswicker
John Everett Millais

The Morning Report - 6/18/19

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Tuesday's child is full of links so here we go. First to the border and the immigration/illegal alien invasion crisis where the President is still as serious as a heart attack to keep his promises on securing our border by following through in withholding hundreds of millions in foreign aid to Central American nations whose citizens are being encouraged to depopulate through Mexico and over the Rio Grande. If he really wants them to sit up and take notice, a hefty tax on remittances plus some sort of executive order cutting off those invaders already in country from Uncle Sugar would do the trick, following on yesterday's news about one policy being implemented in that regard (along with prosecuting American businesses that knowingly employ them). If you look in the education section, there's another heartwarming link about schools and teachers that openly admit illegal alien children losing federal dollars thanks to Trump administration reforms cutting them off. On another positive note, Cocaine Mitch is going to force a vote in the Senate on Trump's border security funding. Obviously, it'll be dead in the House but it puts the spotlight on the Dems as fundamentally unserious, and indeed aiding and abetting, in this crisis. Hell, even the Democrat Mayor of border town Del Rio, TX is going ape over illegals being dumped on his jurisdiction. Instead of turning your ire on John Cornyn, champ, you might want to reconsider the policies and ideology of your own political party that brought you and us to this disaster. Meh, a leopard changing his spots, right?

On the downside, a couple of rage-inducing items including the Ninth Circus giving Fourth Amendment protections to illegal alien lawbreakers, the number of Africans from the Ebola Belt crossing the Rio Grande is getting ridiculous (which begs the question, how the hell are they getting across the Atlantic in the first place? Via package deals on Air-Nazi-Collaborator, I assume), and Andrew Cuomo just signed a bill giving illegal aliens in New York State driver's licenses. One can assume their registering to vote Democrat is a mere formality, but still. I would think the President will notice this and, in turn, ramp up ICE raids in NYC and other Democrat strongholds and repatriate as many to where they belong and ignore the goddam courts. This is war. For real.

Rounding out this category, and seguing nicely into the next, we have an ex-Mexican envoy meddling in our affairs by openly urging Trump's political enemies here to sabotage him as retribution for forcing Mexico's hand with tariffs.

Speaking of foreign meddling, to the Clinton/Obama-Orchestrated Coup Against President Trump where it seems as if Obama, fresh off secret meetings with Merkel and Macron, may be meeting with Italian PM Renzi to get their stories straight in the event the Barr blowtorch points in their direction. Recall that Renzi weaponized his intel services in pimping the Russia collusion hoax. And, Judicial Watch has uncovered the Obama State Department's role in the attempted coup. Lastly, David Harsanyi reminds us that, in light of the idiotic reaction to Trump's "Norway gaffe," the dossier and everything and everyone attached to it was all about foreign interference in our affairs. And not by Trump, but by the Democrat-Left-Globalist-Media cabal.

In Officially-Sanctioned Democrat Jew-Hatred, it seems we have a little blue-on-blue action with rabid leftist Jan Schakowsky (wife of thug-for-hire employment agency owner Robert Creamer) not on board with Bro-Fo Omar's assertion that legitimate criticism of her views is just "weaponization of anti-Semitism" as a means to attack her. Get thee to a mikvah, Jan, and go bobbing for apples.

Politics: The estimable Jeffrey Lord is high on Trump's 2020 chances, noting the wacky polls a year and a half from election day, and that seems to be mirrored by the throngs of Trump supporters queueing up nearly 40 hours in advance of a rally to be held in Florida, presumably where he will formally announce his reelection bid. And yet, the Democrats are already running anti-Trump ads even before the first primary debate has taken place and a nominee yet to be selected (your definition of that word may vary, all things considered). Also, three essays exposing creepy groper veep Joey Bidet, Hillary Clinton projects, mostly projectile halitosis and chutzpocritical bilge about Trump, Gavin Newsom, the overlord of the failed feudal state of California spouts a Nikita Khruschev-like boast about America, as he completely misrepresents how his state got in the state it is now in. And that would be by importing voters to supplant the citizenry which led to toxic socialism gone mad. It'd be a real shame if Newsom came down with typhus, mumps and bubonic plague. Yup. Real shame, that.

Also, Rabbi Fischer states the obvious but he does it so eloquently, Chiquita Khruschev is in a panic over new polls showing her constituents are not fans of hers. I hope former Mark Levin staffer Richie Valdez has a real shot at dumping her. With Team Trump thinking some blue areas like Oregon are ripe for being picked off come 2020, the NRCC is backing them by targeting bucks to take out long-time Oregon Dem Pete DeFazio, another warning about this dangerous interstate compact to trash the electoral college, the Dems could rebuild the so-called "blue wall" by retaking the swing states Trump took and yet still lose in 2020, another low-life piece of shit Christ-hater running for Congress and the great Victor Davis Hanson with a fine outing on how Trump has not just overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple, but chopped them to bits and set them on fire. Well worth a read.

First Amendment and Fake News Fakery: SCOTUS rules private firms are not bound by first amendment rules, the MFM as pimps of Chi-Com propaganda, Civil War reenactments are racist or something, Twitter pimps religion of peace propaganda, maybe the de-platforming of conservatives is an opportunity, and an essay in support of the anti-US flag burning law. Over to you, CBD (click here for his post arguing the opposite from this past weekend [do not comment on old threads]).

Guns: What if Eric Swallowswell gave an anti-NRA protest and fewer people showed up than a Jm J Acosta book-signing?

Abortion: Reading Justice Thomas' tea leaves as they could apply to Roe v Wade, and Vermont's GOP governor goes full baby-killer. I'd say primary his ass but it's Vermont.

Foreign Desk: The Iran situation tops the links where the US is sending 1,000 troops to the region to bolster security, new sanctions being imposed on a Farsi financial institution that funds the nuke program, the Iran Deal supporters' blather proves Trump was right to scrap that scam, celebrating the Hong Kong protestors seeming victory (try that shit in Peking and they might get a very different reaction), NSA Bolton warning of continued Chi-Com cyber warfare, and another look at Brexit through the lens of Ireland-Northern Ireland hard border controls and what that means overall.

We-All-Slam-For-I-Slam: A warning to the Trump administration to not be to hasty in designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, ironically from some of that groups biggest critics. Hmm.

Domestic Desk: As Gavin Newsom bangs his shoe about America going under, his state's pension fund is circling the bowl because they rejected tobacco and guns, and Daniel Greenfield notes the doubling of that state's budget in just eight short years. I wonder how that could've happened (sarc). Also, why can't we see this secret Democrat list of judicial nominee dream (nightmare) candidates and more schadenboner about Agriculture Department staffers being moved to Kansas City.

The Economy: Chiquita Khruschev AOC smears Jeff Bezos as a greedy, rich bastard. Could it be sour grapes over her idiotic nixing of Amazon's Long Island City HQ, or just plain old anti-capitalist propaganda? Funny, considering Bezos is a big lefty.

Church Sex Scandal: Cardinal Vignano confirms the allegations against Cardinal Rossi.

Healthcare: In the words of Joe Jackson, "everything gives you cancer."

Education: Students think Trump is a horrid racist, until they find out the words they thought were his came from Joey Bidet's filthy sewer, and a NJ high school bans military sashes from graduation. I assume ISIS flags or rainbow homo banners are de rigeur...

Red Greens: Advocacy group pays conference fees for mayors to promote lawsuits against big oil. Quid pro quo anyone? Also, if solar energy is a bust in Nevada, it ain't gonna fly anywhere.

Hither and Yon: Harvard rescinds Kyle Kashuv's admission because of alleged racist comments he made when he was 16. If only his folks were Democrats and he wore blackface. Nike going full SJW retard (fat models for an athletic brand?), the Clinton's Broadway show is the flop that Bialystock and Bloom should've produced (hell, maybe they did nudge-nudge wink-wink), Christian Toto on Hollywood's continued ignoring the first rule of holes with three new flicks, Teen Vogue thinks prostitution is a noble profession your kids should be encouraged to consider, on the heels of being dragged kicking and screaming to include Clarence Thomas in an exhibition, the Smithsonian is proud to highlight a new documentary on that great American... Angela Davis.

Lastly, Gloria Vanderbilt, the heiress who reinvented herself time and again over the course of her life has passed away at 95. RIP.

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.

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, MIGRANT INVASION BORDER WALL, BORDER SECURITY

• Trump Follows Through On Threat, Withholds Hundreds Of Millions In Aid To Central America
  
• Cocaine Mitch To Force Vote On Trump Border Funding Request
  
• Record Number of African Nationals Flood Our Southern Border (how the hell are they getting across the Atlantic in the first place?! - jjs)
  
• Democrat Border Mayor Goes Ballistic Over "Dumping" of Illegal Aliens in His Town (LOL! Get fucked! - jjs)
  
• Hadrian's Wisdom: Why America Needs a Wall
  
• Ninth Circus Creates New Right for Illegal Aliens Not to Be Deported
  
• Christians Don't Have to Support Open Borders
  
• Foreign Meddling? Mexican Ex-Envoy Urges Mexico to Sic Trump's US Political Opponents on Him
  
• Cuomo Signs Bill Granting Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens (ramp up deportation raids in NY to eleventy-leven, Mr. President - jjs)
  
• Border Sheriff: Cartels Kill Each Other Half a Block From Arizona Border... Then Ask For Asylum

  CONGRESSIONAL COUP, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, THE MUELLER DECEPTION
  

• Judicial Watch's Fitton: E-Mails Show Obama State Department's Role in Anti-Trump Coup Cabal
  
• The DNC Sold the Brooklyn Bridge To the FBI (but the FBI knew what they were getting - jjs)
  
• Election Commissioner: Clinton Can Get Info From Foreigners, But How Dare Trump Think About It
  
• Dictator In Exile, Medici Edition: Is Obama Secretly Meeting With Italy's Renzi to Get Their Stories Straight? (3AM raid by the Carabinieri from PM Salvini? - jjs)
  
• Harsanyi: Anti-Trump "Dossier" Was All About Foreign Interference in a US Election

  OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED DEMOCRAT PARTY ANTI-SEMITISM>
  

• Jan Schakowsky, Bro-Fo Omar at Odds Over Omar's Claim That Critics Are "Weaponizing" Anti-Semitism

  POLITICS
  

• Trump Supporters Already Lining Up For Florida Rally 40+ Hours In Advance
  
• Lord: Yes, Trump Can Win Again
  
• Democrats Launching Major Ad Campaign Against Trump Before Their Nominee is Even Selected
  
• Joe Bidet's First Move As President? Raising Your Taxes
  
• The Bloom is Off Joe Bidet's Rose
  
• Zito: What Happens When Joe Stops Being Joe?
  
• Hillary Clinton: Trump Makes "Outlandish" Claims About My Campaign and Russia (please run again, please! - jjs)
  
• Newsom Says Republicans "Will Go Into the Waste Bin Of Society," Compares 2019 America To California In the 90s (go shove Khruschev's shoe up your ass, fool - jjs)
  
• Rabbi Fischer: Basically, Bernie Sanders Is a Communist
  
• Chiquita Khruschev AOC Devastated In New Poll From Inside Her District (go Richie Valdez! - jjs)
  
• NRCC Targets Long-Serving Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio
  
• The One-Two Punch to Knock Out Electoral Democracy
  
• Democrats Could Rebuild the "Blue Wall" in 2020... and Still Lose
  
• "Stomp on Jesus" Professor Running for Elected Office (bless his heart - jjs)
  
• V.D. Hanson: When Normality Became Abnormal

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  

• SCOTUS: Private Firms Not Bound by First Amendment (what if they're a monopoly or oligopoly? - jjs)
  
• Democracy Dies with Chinese Propaganda
  
• Claiming Racism, Illinois Democrat Cancels Local Civil War Re-Enactment
  
• Twitter Promotes Propaganda That Islam Saved the Universe in Avengers Endgame
  
• Conservatism De-Platforming: Crisis or Opportunity?
  
• The Flag Protection Amendment and American Greatness (counter-argument to CBD's weekend post - jjs)

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• 18 People Attend Eric Swallowswell's Gun Control Speech Near NRA Headquarters

  ABORTION
  

• Justice Clarence Thomas Attacks "Erroneous" Precedent, Hinting At Roe v. Wade
  
• Vermont's GOP Governor Signs Law Making Abortion a "Fundamental Human Right," Abortion Up To Birth

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  

• US To Send 1000 Troops To Middle East To Counter Growing Iran Threat (uh oh - jjs)
  
• Trump Admin to Sanction Iran's Last European Lifeline
  
• Tanker Attacks Blamed on Iran: Pompeo Says Some Countries "Just Wish This Would Go Away"
  
• The Iran Deal Echo Chamber's Lies Prove Trump Is Right To Renegotiate Now
  
• Is President Trump Serious About Iran?
  
• Hong Kong Protests: And We Did It! (might be very different if it happened in Peking instead of HK - jjs)
  
• Bolton: China Continuing Cyberattacks on Government, Private Networks
  
• British Foreign Secretary: "EU Would be Ready to Renegotiate the Terms of Brexit"

  ISLAM, TERRORISM, SHARIA, DHIMMITUDE
  

• A Muslim Brotherhood Terror Designation Could Backfire

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, CORRUPTION
  

• California Pension Fund Faces Crisis After Shunning Guns, Tobacco (oh, Governor Shoe-Table-Banger? - jjs)
  
• Greenfield: California's Budget Doubles to $215 Billion in 8 Years (with this one neat trick! - jjs)
  
• Why Do Democrats Have a Secret List of Supreme Court Nominees?
  
• Hell No! We Won't Go... To Kansas City!

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  

• Chiquita Khruschev AOC: Richest Man in the World Bezos Pays His Employees "Starvation Wages"

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  

• Tyranny For Every Driver? Bill Proposes Breathalyzing All Drivers Within 10 Years (it's NY so illegal aliens are, of course, exempted - jjs)
  
• Gunman Opens Fire In Downtown Dallas, Shot Dead

  CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDAL, COVER UP
  

• Archbishop Vigano Confirms Allegations About Monsignor Rossi

  HEALTHCARE
  

• Coffee Will Kill You, Until it Won't, and Other Fake Health News

  EDUCATION, INDOCTRINATION
  

• School Officials Complain as Trump's Migration Reforms Redirect Funds to American Children
  
• Students Slam Trump's "Pretty Racist" Quotes... Then Learn They're From Joe Bidet
  
• New Jersey High School Bans, Confiscates Military Sashes At Graduation

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, LYSENKOISM
  

• Advocacy Group Pays Conference Fees for Mayor to Promote Energy Lawsuits
  
• Solar Power to Hit the Wall in Nevada

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  

• Harvard Rescinds Admission To Conservative Kyle Kashuv Over Private Racist Remarks He Wrote At 16, Despite Apology, Evidence Of Growth; Coonman Northam Still Killing "Comfy" Babies Despite Blackface in Med School
  
• Fat-Shaming Or Fact-Shaming? (Nike goes full SJW retard - jjs)
  
• Broadway Play About Clintons to Close One Month Early (must be a Bialystock & Bloom production - jjs)
  
• Toto: Why Three "Woke" Comedy Flops Won't Stop Hollywood
  
• Teen Vogue Encourages Children To Explore Prostitution As a Career (you start out as an assistant crack-whore? - jjs)
  
• Smithsonian Disgrace: Once-Revered Institution Destroys Reputation with Propaganda Flick Celebrating Angela Davis (but Clarence Thomas they shunned - jjs)
  
• Gloria Vanderbilt, Heiress With a Knack for Reinvention, Dies at 95

Monday Overnight Open Thread (6/17/19)

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Quote I

"This commission—and I'm delighted to have this bill and to push it into a 21st century—was first introduced in 1989 by my friend and colleague, the honorable John Conyers," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)

Quote II

All leftist credos begin with the conviction of a powerful conspiracy against the groups of people they hope to recruit, a conspiracy that is as implausible as it is unsustainable, which can only end in genocide or social transformation. Somehow the Left usually manages to fit both into its busy schedule. Daniel Greenfield

Quote III

“You can’t talk about climate change without talking about the social inequalities that exist or the people who suffer from environmental racism. The people on the front lines suffer the contaminated water and lands — almost always First Nations — versus the people who are profiting from it. You can’t look at those things in isolation, the ones who are making the decisions and those who aren’t.” Pam Palmater

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Obviously this Bishop didn't get word from the Pope about global warming. Monsignor Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya, Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura,wants to use a helicopter for an unusual procedure.

To deal with a wave of violence and corruption sweeping over the Colombian port city of Buenaventura, the bishop of the local Diocese has proposed using a Navy helicopter to shower the city in holy water and purge evil.

Monsignor Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya, Bishop of the Diocese of Buenaventura, plans to perform a mass exorcism in the Colombian city that has seen violent crime and corruption rise to an all-time high. With the support of the National Navy, the representative of the Church wants to use a helicopter to sprinkle holy water over the city in an attempt to get rid of demons. The daring event is scheduled for July 13th or 14th, when Buenaventura hosts its annual patron saints festivities.

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Oh noes, Global warming is coming for the Cognac business.

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Quite the pro-active Chamber of Commerce in Kesan, Turkey. Looking for scuba diving tourism bucks, an aircraft is dumped in the sea.

Maybe we just don't understand the scuba diving community quite as well as the country of Turkey does.

Because, to us, dropping an Airbus A330 commercial airliner into the middle of the ocean in Northwest Turkey as a way to "boost scuba diving tourism" and create an "artificial reef" doesn't seem to make any immediate sense.

But, nonetheless, that's exactly what has happened.

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Buttplug Pete is convinced there were past presidents who were the ghey.

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, known to his followers as “Mayor Pete,” thinks that if he was elected president in 2020 — which is about as likely as John Wayne suddenly coming back to life and immediately beginning work on “The Searchers 2” — then he probably wouldn’t be America’s first gay president.

“I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones,” Buttgieg said to Mike Allen on HBO’s “Axios” in a clip shared on Sunday.

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Nevada is on the way making it tougher on employers when they want to make a new hire. Nevada bans discrimination against job applicants who test positive for marijuana.

Nevada has just become the first US state to ban employers from requiring pre-employment marijuana testing.

Nevada is just one of 11 states – plus Washington D.C. – that have already legalized the use of recreational marijuana, but they are now the first to pass legislation that prevents discrimination against job applicants who test positive for cannabis usage.

“It is unlawful for any employer in this state to fail or refuse to hire a prospective employee because the prospective employee submitted to a screening test and the results of the screening test indicate the presence of marijuana,” states the newly-signed Assembly Bill 132.

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Paul Joseph Watson examines Gay Pride and other perverted sexual persuasions. sexual persuasions. Of course it's NSFW

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The phrase Holy Shit! has taken on a new meaning. Fecal transplants. The FDA has halted them for the time being.

Fecal transplants are experimental procedures in which doctors use stool from a healthy donor to treat a person whose own microbiome has been thrown off balance.

The procedure has shown significant promise for treating various health issues.

But now an immuno-compromised patient who received a fecal transplant for an undisclosed reason has died following the procedure and another is seriously ill - prompting the Food and Drug Administration to put a halt to a number of fecal transplant trials.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: 17 Jun 1946
American singer-songwriter, Barry Manilow, (born Barry Alan Pincus) who had the 1975 US No.1 & UK No.11 single 'Mandy', also wrote 'Could It Be Magic', and 'Copacabana.' Manilow has scored over 25 US Top 40 singles selling over 75 million records worldwide. Had the 2006 US No.1 album The Greatest Songs of the Fifties. via thisdayinmusic.com

No word if this is a National Holiday at Villa Dildo.

Born on this day: 17 Jun 1947
Glenn Buxton, guitarist with the Alice Cooper Band, who had the 1972 UK No.1 & US No.7 single 'School's Out', the 1972 hit 'Elected' and the 1973 US & UK No.1 album Billion Dollar Babies. via thisdayinmusic.com

There is your diversity for the week.

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They are called handle bars and not feet bar for a reason. Genius Award Winner.

YouTuber Artem Boldyrev died after crashing into a Fiat car while reportedly driving his bike with his feet on a motorway in Moscow. A popular biker and motoblogger has died in an horrific road crash after steering his bike with his feet while allegedly texting on his phone.

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A lifetime of love is Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

An American soldier has been reunited with the French woman he fell in love with in World War II — 75 years later.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Phrasing.

Notice: No I didn't get permission from the Ace Media Empire or AceCorp, LLC. I just posted it and hoped for the best. And by the way, this ONT is proudly made in the greatest country on earth, The U.S.A.

Close it up

Netanyahu Renames Golan Heights Town "Ramat Trump," or "Trump Heights"

—Ace of Spades

CBS:

The Trump name graces apartment towers, hotels and golf courses. Now it is the namesake of a tiny Israeli settlement in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet convened in this hamlet Sunday to inaugurate a new settlement named after Donald Trump in a gesture of appreciation for the U.S. president's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory.

The settlement isn't exactly new. Currently known as Bruchim, it is over 30 years old and has a population of 10 people.

Israel is hoping the rebranded "Ramat Trump," Hebrew for "Trump Heights," will encourage a wave of residents to vastly expand it.

I never woke up today. I've been dead all darned day. So I'm knocking off.

Supreme Court Remands Decision Against "Sweet Cakes by Melissa" Bakery, Which Refused to Bake a Cake for a Gay Wedding

—Ace of Spades

They sent the case back down to lower courts to reconsider in light of their Colorado decision, which said that a state agency cannot prosecute such cases while motivated by "animus" against religion.

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a ruling against two Oregon bakers who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

The couple, Melissa and Aaron Klein, cited religious beliefs as their reason for not providing services for a gay wedding. This touched off the latest in a series of such cases making headlines in recent years. During the court's last term, justices ruled in favor of a Colorado baker in a similar situation, stating that a state body demonstrated improper hostility toward the baker's religion in finding that he violated a state anti-discrimination law.

On Monday, the Supreme Court sent the Klein case back down to a lower court "for further consideration in light of" their Colorado decision.

Remember that The Also Fiercely Heterosexual Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's decision in Colorado was a punt, though: his vote tipped the court against the Colorado persecution, but only on the narrow grounds that it had been mounted with "animus" against the religious.

Well, what if a state agency persecutes a business for refusing to violate their religious beliefs by taking a major role in a gay marriage, but the state agency does not exhibit an "animus" against religion while doing so?

The Supreme Court didn't say.
The Supreme Court had earlier remanded the state persecution of a florist in Washington State, sending the case back to the Washington (state) Supreme Court, also telling that state supreme court to reconsider in light of the Colorado decision.

Well, on June 6, the Washington (state) Supreme Court found again against the florist, finding that there was no "animus," just good ol' neutral discrimination against the religious.

Now that case will likely return to the Supreme Court, who will not be able to punt again.

In a hotly anticipated decision, the Washington Supreme Court ruled against a florist who was fined for not providing services for a gay couple's wedding.

The court had previously heard the case, State of Washington v. Arlene's Flowers, ruling that Barronelle Stutzman and her store, Arlene's Flowers, violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) for refusing to make floral arrangements for a gay couple in 2013. Stutzman claimed that she was only acting in accordance with her religious beliefs. The U.S. Supreme Court asked the state high court to take another look at whether it violated her religious rights by not being neutral to her religion when making its decision.

That court said no.

"We now hold that the answer to the Supreme Court's question is no; the adjudicatory bodies that considered this case did not act with religious animus when they ruled that the florist and her corporation violated the Washington Law Against Discrimination ... by declining to sell wedding flowers to a gay couple," the Washington Supreme Court's ruling said, "and they did not act with religious animus when they ruled that such discrimination is not privileged or excused by the United States Constitution or the Washington Constitution."

Ousted Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohammad Morsi Collapses in Court, Then Dies

—Ace of Spades

Obama virtually installed this Muslim Brotherhood terrorist into the presidency.

Mohamed Morsi, the former president of Egypt and top Muslim Brotherhood official who was ousted by the military in 2013 and had been standing trial for espionage, collapsed and died during a court session Monday, state television reported.

Morsi, 67, was in court when he suddenly blacked out and then died, according to state television.

An Egyptian judicial official told the Associated Press that Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he had "many secrets" he could reveal before collapsing minutes later.

Thanks to ChupaMe.

Rachel Dolezal Decides She Needs Another Round of Identity-Cosplay Attention, Announces She's a Bisexual Now

—Ace of Spades

These people are totally, totally sane.

She thinks she's playing the Supermarket Sweep version of identity check-box collecting.

Meanwhile, in #Woke Financial Services, MasterCard will begin issuing cards in whatever name you like, even -- especially -- if it's not your legal name.

They're calling it the "True Name" program, and it's for transgenders, though I suppose identity thieves will be early adopters as well.