Ace of Spades Pet Thread

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Sit. Stay. Good Moron.

A Little of This. A Little of That.

Farm animals. They really aren't pets. But they certainly are loved. A boy and his cow.

Dang pets!!! h/t MTF

1 down. 8 to go. Kitty takes a ride.

A cat who likes baseball. Who knew? h/t Vendette

Cuteness.

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Meet The PetMorons

Tom Cat came to our house one day. I believe someone must have set him out in the country near our home.

At first I thought he was a she and so I scheduled an appointment with the vet, but turns out she was a he who had already been neutered.

I don't know much about cats, but I sure do love this one. He's very friendly and this cat will hunt.

Thanks in advance for including him on the pet thread!

ALH

No thanks necessary ALH. We are glad we could post your Tom Cat.

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Hi guys. Rich here, long-time lurker, very very occasional commenter, from northern reaches of the Bay Area.

In the foreground is Gordon Setter Luke, 10 years old and of questionable intellect. He eats his own ears for dessert. His primary duty is to serve as chew toy for the Dobie in the background, six-year-old Flirty. Unlike Luke she's highly intelligent.

Thanks for all you do.

Hey Rich, no thanks necessary. It is the Pet Thread who owes you and your gang a big thank you for your submission.

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I enjoy pet morons, thanks. -Robert

Thank you Robert, hope you stop by and tell us about these fine looking dogs.

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Hi, ive been lurking and occasionally commenting as rumcrook for maybe ten or more years at ace of spades, i think i recall migrating over For aces news feed sometime after the guy who ran little green footballs went loco batshit crazy and kicked all the traditional cultural conservatives off the board including me.... man that seems like a long time ago now. Any way, i saw the pic of the chihuahua riding the other dog like a pony and thought i would add mine, she was a good dog and unfortunately drowned a couple weeks back just after the 4th of july. although the great pyranese she is riding is still in the back yard. Thier names are goofa (great pyranese mix) and petunia named so by my girls, although i allways called her "little dog" and she always came when i called her. She ended up being my daily quiet companion more so the kids, and it hit me hard. Harder than the kids. As an adult ive learned these attachments to dogs come with an eventual price tag of sadness. The kids are more resilient.

A wonderful photo but a sad story, so sorry for your loss.

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I'm mostly a lurker. Here are our two beagles, Houston and Scout. They were waiting for food in this picture, and if I don't get it quick enough they overturn their bowls until I get the hint. We've had Scout since she was a puppy and she's a real sweetheart, unless you have the temerity to walk past our back fence or down our street. We got Houston as a rescue a few years ago. Someone dumped him at a shelter because they thought he was too old. He's a real charmer, too, unless you are a squirrel. As with most rescues, he sticks to us like glue and has brought us so much joy. I love your pet thread!! -JulieC

They surely look mistreated to us JulieC. The next thing you'll tell us that they sleep on the couch. Seriously, nice looking pair of Beagles.

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Well that wraps up another Pet Thread. Can we ask a favor of your lurkers and commenters? Believe it or not our photo stash is getting quite low. We could use some photos. It doesn't matter if you have submitted before, send in a new photo of your pet.

So if you have photos or tips or stories, you can send them here to us at petmorons at gmail dot com.

Have a great week!!!

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Saturday Gardening Thread: Big Butterfly Edition [KT]

—Open Blogger

Hello, Horde! Back from vacation! Pixy has decided not to let me embed photos for now, so an abbreviated thread today. Thanks to The Horde, we have some content. I hope to be back up to speed next week.

JustGotHere sent photos of our insect species of the week, from Central Texas.

A few weeks ago, we found a few beautifully strange caterpillars on the lemon tree on our covered back patio, and discovered that they were Papilio cresphontes, the caterpillar for the Giant Swallowtail butterfly. We didn't have a camera handy when the butterflies emerged from chrysalis, but here are a couple of the photos of the Papilio cresphontes if you'd like them for the Gardening Thread.

To me, they look like they are wearing crowns/tiaras, and they have tiny lavender dots on their backs -- which I did not see in any other online photos of the caterpillars. I think they are lovely critters. Keep up the great work!

I could see the little lavender dots on the big original photos JustGotHere sent. I wonder if there could have been some hybridization with the Ornythion Swallowtail, which flies in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Its caterpillars seem to have more prominent lavender spots.

The Giant Swallowtail is most common in the Southeast, but is also found in other eastern states and even sometimes in Canada. Sometimes it strays into the West, too. I have never seen one.

Giant Swallowtail in Wisconsin

There are some great photos at the link above, including butterflies in the air and a size comparison between the Giant Swallowtail and the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

Here is a Florida subspecies. The back and front of Giant Swallowtail wings have very different appearances.

Giant Swallowtails are a pest in some citrus orchards. The caterpillars are called "orange dogs" or "orange puppies". But they lived in the USA before there were citrus trees here. They have other host plants. I'll post a photo of one next week, if Pixy takes pity on me.

All the way from Minnesota, Gordon sends the following lovely flower photo:

Usually they are white. But this is the all-blue variety, and they are pale purple. You can see the blue barrels in which they're growing.

You can really tell from that photo that potatoes are in the nightshade family. Picking any new potatoes, Gordon?

He also sent in a very interesting story on commercial strawberries. Said it made him think of our own CaliGirl.

That story reminds me of my recently deceased mother-in-law's Strawberry Flowers. Filled with cream cheese. Gorgeous. Directions in the comments.

Gardens of The Horde

Nothing new going on in my garden. Hot and humid. A strange critter landed on my arm during the night this week. I think it was a praying mantis. Startled me.

Anything going on in your garden?

If you would like to send information and/or photos for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden
at g mail dot com

Include your nic unless you want to be a lurker.

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Thread before the Gardening Thread: Where did today's white nationalists get their inspiration? [KT]

—Open Blogger

Good morning, Horde. I'm back from vacation. Looks like while I was gone, some really dumb stuff happened.

It seems like a long time ago now that I made a comment about the leftist dominance of higher education on Facebook. A "friend of a friend" asked, in an eager but not obnoxious way, if I was aware that I was the beneficiary of White Privilege.

I asked him, not in an obnoxious way, what he thought the most likely positive and negative outcomes of the growing academic obsession with the concept of "privilege" would be. This was even before those odious secondary education conferences on Privilege were dreamed up. He did not seem too interested in discussing where the concept of Privilege would lead the country. It was apparently only important for white people and men to understand that they had it.

Well, I think Brendan O'Neill has nailed (on Facebook) one of the outcomes.

Saturday Morning Weird News Dump

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

Good morning, hard to believe that it is Saturday again.

EMT 08/19/17

—krakatoa

A bit of a good story to partially stem all the bad in this world.

Thursday night, I'm driving down from Louisville to home in Tn. Late, but instead of stay the night, I want to beat the race traffic.

It's been raining, and it's foggy, and I'm driving a set of secondary highways through the Cumberland Gap in what I am sure is some amazing scenery on a clear day.

Come off one mtn a little past the Kentucky border into Virginia, and my right headlight goes.

10 minutes later, a Jonesville deputy has the rollers on behind me.

It's 3 a.m. The world is crazy. Your mind can't help but think of all the ways a simple stop can go wrong.

I pull into the first well-lit parking lot I find in their sleepy little town, put on the dome light, and hold the wheel at 10 and 2 until he taps on my window.

"You've got a headlight out"

"I know - it literally went out 10 minutes ago coming off that last mountain".

"License and registration" he asks.

I hand him my license and my CCW, telling him I am carrying, and it is in the door pocket, and that my registration is the glove box, and it's a mess in there, so it may take some looking.

He thanks me for letting me know re. the pistol, and tells me to take my time finding the registration.

I hand it to him, and he asks if he can take the gun from the car and put it on my roof while he calls everything in.

I know it's not a requirement, but I don't want a hassle. So I tell him sure and "Would you like to get it yourself? It's in the door-pocket, a round in the chamber, and the safety is on."

He agrees, I open the door for him, and he takes the piece and puts it on my car roof while he returns to his car.

A few minutes later, he comes back, says everything checks out, puts my pistol back in the door, and says to be sure I get the headlight fixed.

Then he says something really nice and unnecessary:

"It was a pleasure meeting you."

I presume it was because I was calm, courteous and let him know everything I was doing so there were no surprises.

But I appreciate that he repaid my respect.

Chris Rock will not steer you wrong when it comes to dealing with the police, it doesn't matter what your skin tone is.

Overnight Open Thread (18 Aug 2017)

—CDR M

Not that the A-10 needed more teeth, but it can drop JDAMs now.

USS Fitzgerald

A sobering read on what happened on the USS Fitzgerald after it hit that container ship.

Solar Eclipse Myths

As we wait for the solar eclipse to arrive on Monday, here are solar eclipse myths from around the world.

Metal Cover of Toto - Africa

Whiskey

Hmmmm. Chemists confirm that whiskey really does taste better with a splash of water.

Fatbergs

Oh that's nasty. 'Fatbergs' are the scourge of city sewers.

F-Bomb News Bloopers

Hurricane Season

Well, the season sure has picked up. Harvey buffets windward islands en route to Caribbean. 2 more storms behind that one to keep an eye on.

Commute

So can you top this driving incident? Driver forced to gun engine and jump rising drawbridge.

Use It Or Lose It

Isn't this true for everything though? Vaginas absolutely need sex or they'll waste away.

Related item: rare pubic-grooming data reveals injuries, odd habits, and nicked bits.

Dog Video

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Media Criticizes General Mattis for Telling Navy Sailors That Their Jobs Are Worth It, Because At Least They Know They're Not "Pussies"

—Ace

Oh, dear. Our priestly caste of wan pencil-scratchers is once again a-tremble with the ecstasy of outrage.

I'm sure they're just trying to protect these sailors from #Triggering #Harm -- I'm sure these sailors have never heard such salty language!

"You will have some of the best days of your life and some of the worst days of your life in the U.S. Navy, you know what I mean?" Mattis told sailors at Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, according to the official transcript. "That means you're living."

"That means you're not some pussy sitting on the sidelines, you know what I mean, kind of sitting there saying, ‘Well, I should have done something with my life,'" he continued.

In response to his speech, NBC News complained that "Defense Secretary Mattis Uses Disparaging Term in Speech to Navy," comparing his remarks to Trump's comments on the infamous Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women "by the pussy."

Newsweek likewise complained that "Defense Secretary Suggests Civilians Are ‘Pussies' for Sitting on the Sidelines."

"Donald Trump's secretary of defense James ‘Mad Dog' Mattis appeared to suggest those who did not serve the country were ‘a bunch of pussies,'" read the lede.

The Washington Post consulted retired Col. Don Christensen, the head of an anti-sexual assault organization who said that Mattis' comments were "troubling."

Christensen noted that the remarks "clearly implied that those who don't serve are less manly than those who do."

Note this about that last sissy criticism: This comes from the same media that exalts itself as Truth Warriors elevated above every other walk of life in America.

Their objection isn't actually that Mattis suggested that one occupation is more elevated than another -- it's that he said the wrong occupation is the Most Exalted.

Everyone knows the media are the moast specialist people -- just read any magazine or watch any tv show! You'll see!

Open thread.

Don't forget, this stupid eclipse is on Monday, and I've decided okay, well, if it just happens once every 40 years or whatever, I guess I'll go look at it.

But it's hard to find eclipse glasses now, so if you're interested, start scrambling!

Flashback: When Obama Declared That There Were "Many Sides" to Blame for Islamist Terrorism -- Especially Christianity -- Media Not Only Defended Him, But Castigated Critics Who'd Dispute Obama's "Many-Sides-ism"

—Ace

Let's go all the way back through the mists of time, to a forgotten era of dinosaurs and wizard-kings, an age of wonder and mystery called "February 2015."

In this mythological age, evoking "many sides" to blame for violence was not considered "racist," but in fact was hailed as the very pinnacle of rationality and cosmopolitanism.

Despite the fact that it is always Islamists responsible for Islamist terrorism (see the name; just what it says on the tin), President Lord God Obama proclaimed that many sides were in fact responsible for the rivers of blood spilled by Islamists, including, most notoriously, the Christians.

His latest challenge came Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast. At a time of global anxiety over Islamist terrorism, Obama noted pointedly that his fellow Christians, who make up a vast majority of Americans, should perhaps not be the ones who cast the first stone.

"Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history," he told the group, speaking of the tension between the compassionate and murderous acts religion can inspire. "And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."

When Trump spoke of "many sides" offering violence, he was referring to the fact -- the fact -- that antifa thugs attacked the Nazis and, when the cops drove the Nazis from the park, surrounded them and attacked them with apparent police complicity.

When Obama spoke of many sides being to blame, he was going back to... the Crusades between 1100 and 1350 AD. Oh, and, of course, the famous Christian enslavement of Muslims, which did not happen.

The response from the media was not -- get this -- anger and bitter denunciation, but rather a moistened-crotched panting, along with a sneering dismissal of critics of the "many sides" talk as "the usual quarters."

President Obama is drawing some heat -- mostly from the usual quarters -- for invoking the Crusades while talking about Islam and terrorism on Thursday.

At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Obama noted there was a time when people mass-murdered in the name of Christianity, too:

And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

As many were quick to point out, the Catholic church's Crusades began more than 900 years ago, and the Inquisition began in the 13th century.

In the context of Obama's long-standing remarks on Islam and terrorism, though, invoking the Crusades and the Inquisition are wholly unsurprising. What is more surprising is that he hasn't done this sooner.

I'm not surprised the leftwing media has completely ignored its own history of defending "many sides to blame" arguments from the president.

I am surprised, however, that so many members of the #FakeNews "rightwing" media have, however.

More: At the eulogy for five dead Dallas cops assassinated by a Black Lives Matter terrorist, Barack "Many Sides" Obama offered this observation:

"We have all seen this bigotry in our lives at some point," obama told an audience of about 2,500 at a concert hall in Dallas. "None of us is entirely innocent. No institution is entirely immune. And that includes our police departments. We know this."

Telling cops they're racist at a funeral for their own was, by the media's estimation, the height of cosmopolitan nuance and sophistication.

Thanks to Soothsayer for that quote.

Posted by Ace at 07:01 PM Comments

If There's No Known Motive, It Must Be a Day That Ends in -Day

—Ace

A young foreign man went on a stabbing spree in Finland;, no motive known or even suspected.

This follows the two-city Rogue Self-Driving Vehicle Attacks in Spain.

New Netflix Crime Documentary Explores Issues of Injustice and Mob Accusations in Today's America

—Ace

The lynch-mob may be coming for you.

A timely warning for a dangerous age. I think this might be the most important documentary of the new dark century.

Maxine Waters: You Know, One Of Those White Nationalists That Really Cheeses Me Off is... Dr. Ben Carson

—Ace

Ben Carson, MD -- White Power Acolyte.

She actually referred to him as a "white wing nationalist."

Clever, or is she just losing her faculties?

She also said this:

Complaining there is "uncertainty" because of the Trump administration, Waters said, "Mr. Mnuchin, who is the Treasury Secretary, who is responsible for over 36,000 foreclosures in this area, is now the Secretary of the Treasury," repeating herself.

"Standing next to him just yesterday, or day before yesterday, I'm getting these days mixed up," the 79-year-old California congresswoman said.

She's not as sharp as she used to be. And she used to be dumb as a shovel.

Bannon Planning "#War" with "Democrat White House"?

—Ace

Seems like it.

I've heard that, strangely enough, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon were allies a lot of the time (and, I guess, enemies some of the time).

If you're wondering who Bannon and Priebus could possibly have in common as rivals of sufficient enough stature to cause them to team up -- well, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump and their various Democrat allies in the White House.

I've heard that Scaramucci's hiring was arranged by Jared and Ivanka specifically to get Spicer, Pirebus, and Bannon fired (and serve as an ally and promoter of Kushner and Ivanka). Well, Scaramucci didn't last long, but Spicer, Priebus, and Bannon are now in fact gone.

I think this might explain the rumblings about the "Democrat White House" -- allies of Bannon seem to think that Jared and Ivanka have now cleared most rivals and now are more firmly in control, and will be advising Trump in a Democrat/progressive direction.

Of course, this also coincides with John Kelly's appointment as Chief of Staff. This might have been his call, too. There are a lot of feuding factions, it seems, in the Trump White House, and maybe he just decided to eject someone on one side of it. Maybe out of ideological opposition to Bannon, maybe just to choose one side to win so that there'd be an end to the warring.

Oh: I should mention that Bannon's recent interview with the American Prospect might have been the final straw, but that seems more likely to be the act of a man who already knew he was being pushed out. So I don't see that as a causal.

Steve Bannon Out at White House

—Ace

The latest claim is that he resigned two weeks ago, but did he resign with encouragement?

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Comparing the crappy, biased #fakenews media coverage of Charlottesville and Barcelona, you might think, oh hell, doesn't journalism today have any standards at all? Actually, it does; it has at least two."

.@cnn @acosta riding shotgun. pic.twitter.com/S1y7N68coR

— rdbrewer (@rdbrewer4) August 17, 2017

The hypocrisy of the Left and the MSM in one chart. #Barcelona pic.twitter.com/OTocsCdB6k

— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) August 17, 2017

Look what was trending on Twitter yesterday:

Ben Roethisberger emailed and said "IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A GUY ON THE TV NEWS SAID IT'S THE RIGHT WHO IS VIOLENT".

Grammie winger lives in Paul 'Quisling' Ryan's district and she recently received a 'beg' letter from his office. The occasion afforded her the opportunity to express to him her utter disappointment in how he has conducted himself as her representative. The letter is all kinds of awesome, and in case you missed it, here it is again:

I have a beg letter from Paul Ryan sitting right here on the table next to me. I'm tearing a dollar bill in half, and sending it back with a letter that says, "This is what you're doing to the country - tearing it apart. You had one chance - and you blew it. Why should I give you one dollar when you scammed me out of all the donations I've made to you in the past? You are a fraud and a con artist. My money would better be spent at the carnival. At least there I might get a stuffed animal. From you? - I get lies. Pretty-face lies..... Signed, pasty white woman who worked on two of your campaigns. Have a nice day, you two faced liar"

Posted by: grammie winger - I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping, at August 17, 2017 10:40 AM (lwiT4)

I wonder if Ryan's office will contact grammie for more input?

To Fail With Honor

This is another great tweet-storm by Thomas Wictor and has the added attraction of sucking up to the boss. As usual, I'll display the first one and then just the text from the rest in the chain to save space and page load times. Also, Muldoon said yesterday he doesn't like tweet-storms, and even though what he said made a certain amount of sense, I like to think I'm doing this just to irritate him:

(1) When McCain became the nominee, I read a long piece by @AceofSpadesHQ that turned out to be 100 percent prescient.

— Thomas Wictor (@ThomasWictor) August 17, 2017

(2) It's spooky how accurate it was.

(3) @AceofSpadesHQ said that McCain was in the race to demonstrate to everyone how to "fail with honor."

(4) McCain had no intention of winning. He would go down in flames, and then he would proudly explain that he was the REAL hero.

(5) At the time, I thought @AceofSpadesHQ was overreacting. Now I realize that he was absolutely correct.

(Note: I wish I could find the piece he was referring to. The phrases "fail with honor" and "failure with honor" do not appear when I search for them either with Google's advanced search function, or using the search function in pixy's software. Also "failure theater" does not appear before 2015, so that's not it. Anyway, if any of you morons know which ace piece TW is referring to, let me know in the comments and I'll link to it. --OM)

(6) McCain's only joy in life is being perverse. I mean that in the following sense:

(7) "A deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often in spite of the consequences."

(8 ) I remember that McCain spent a massive amount of time explaining himself. That should've tipped me off.

(9) If nobody can understand what the hell you're doing, you won't win.

(10) The danger of power, fame, and money is that you're removed from the consequences of your actions.

(11) What makes Trump unique is that he put EVERYTHING on the line. Not just his empire, but his very life.

(12) Did anyone every charge the stage when Bush or Obama were speaking?

(13) Did we ever see the US Secret Service rush Bush or Obama off stage?

(14) Remember how the press told us that THIS was a racist assassination threat?

(15) The cartoon was about that idiot woman who had the pet chimp that tore off her friend's face.

(16) And the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was written by CONGRESS, not the president.

(17) Well, today we don't have to use pretzel logic to construe things as threats. People are quite open about what they want.

(18 ) The reason I support Trump is that he's using identifiable military strategies and tactics to WIN. Trump is no John McCain.

(19) The Republicans were all about "failing with honor." They didn't care in the slightest about the rest of us.

(20) Trump not only cares, he's doing truly unbelievable things to win. He's got the press and his enemies totally flummoxed.

(21) Finally, I wake up every morning excited to see what my president has done NOW. He never disappoints.

(22) @realDonaldTrump is succeeding because he has no fear and because he can outthink all his enemies put together. It's truly amazing.

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Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

His colors are glorious, and even the oddly shaped people are strangely appealing. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for El Greco.

The Morning Report 8/18/17

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. We end the work week with the Media now openly inciting violent insurrection and terrorism against a duly elected President and the citizenry in the wake of what is appearing to be more and more a staged event in Charlottesville; one made all the more tragic in that it cost someone their life. But to the terrorists it's a matter of eggs and omelets. That said, it's indeed a sad day when an horrific terror attack in Europe is now categorized in the Day-Ending-In-"Y" Dept. but on our shores a real Confederacy composed of real racialists and real Nazis is in the opening stages of attempting a real coup. And I'm not merely referring to the George Soros rent-a-thugs paid to shatter glass and crack skulls. That is just the fig leaf smokescreen of an excuse for the criminal element that sits in the Senate and House to make a mockery of our laws and traditions and remove a President that threatens their power structure and whom they have a personal hatred for; and by extension all of us who support him and elected him to clean it up and attempt to halt the 100-year slow poisoning of America as founded.

Some of the commenters here say we should chill; that the insane pronouncements from the media are in direct proportion to the loss of power and influence they traditionally have wielded. Maybe so. But when fringe totalitarian groups have the cover of law enforcement to shield them as well as politicians now on both sides legitimizing them as "the good guys" we are heading for an inflection point. Something's got to give.

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

• Five Terrorists Killed Attempting to Launch Second Attack South of Barcelona
  
• ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Barcelona Van Attack
  
• The Good Roger Simon: Charlottesville, Barcelona and the Left's Nostalgia for Nazism
  
• Charlottesville and Its Aftermath: What If It Was a Setup?
  
• CNN's Sciutto Goes Full Blitzer; Includes Charlottesville in List of European Terror Attacks
  
• As Predicted/Feared, Dem Strategist Calls for Statues of Washington to "Come Down"
  
• Mask Off: Mainstream Dem Groups Unite Radical Insurrectionist Fascist Left
  
• Rush: Left Tearing the Nation Apart While GOP Does Nothing
  
• Articles of Impeachment Drawn Up Again, This Time Over Charlottesville
  
• In Case You Weren't Aware, Bob Corker Is an Asshole
  
• And Yet, Leading Economic Indicators Show No Signs of Slowing of Trump Economy
  
• NAACP Leader Says Confederate Statues Are Not a Problem
  
• Gettysburg Stands Firm, No Confederate Monuments Will Be Removed
  
• Jeffrey Lord: Cuomo and DeBolshevik Ignore KKK Ally Franklin Roosevelt
  
• Daniel Greenfield Deservedly Rips Ron Radosh a New One
  
• US-RoK Wargames Start Monday, Phat Phooker Warns of "Catastrophe"
  
• US Hiding Key Details of Mystery Attacks on American Diplomats in Cuba

ONT Dump

—WeirdDave

Bet She Likes Piña Coladas

Longview, TX man shocked after prostitute he booked was his own wife

The couple are said to be seeking counseling for their marital difficulties

Uh-huh.

It's The Ciiiiircle of Life...

Free Wil.... oh

WWII Day by Day

News You Can Use

How to Digitally Erase All Your Stuff When You Quit Your Job

With so much of our life stored digitally these days, and with the rapid advancement of technology meaning that devices become obsolete faster and must be replaced sooner, this is good to keep in mind even if you aren't changing jobs. I had to return an iPad for an insurance claim recently, and made sure to blank it first. We're a long way from the days of format c: /s

Heart Should Have Used Otters instead of Dogs

This morning I've learned that the Otters See a Butterfly video is significantly improved by the addition of some Shostakovich. pic.twitter.com/txyhxyM1Ju

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) July 30, 2017

Brutal

We dads do dad jokes because they are a harmless way to channel a wit that can be devastating. TL,DR: Plowboys shouldn't draw on gunfighters

Call this Troll of the Week too. (FTR, the answer to the riddle is "Nice belt")

Say My Name

Progress

This is a very interesting article. The world is spending less and less time in the kitchen. This is akin to those articles you see from time to time bemoaning something along the lines of “Adjusted for inflation, wages are flat since 1960!”. Wages are simply a mechanism to convert one's labor into a fungible commodity, money. What these articles often fail to consider is purchasing power: Goods are much cheaper and higher quality than they used to be. It might take a month's labor in 1960 to earn enough to purchase a crappy black and white TV, today one can buy a high def flat panel TV for a week's wages. We are vastly richer in stuff than we were in the past. This is the same thing, but WRT household chores. My grandmother used to have to bake bread almost every day. Today we just buy a loaf for $1.25. The result is leisure time, a concept alien to anyone but the super rich for most of human history.

Eclipse Reminder

Here’s every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime. Is this year your best chance?

The eclipse will occur this coming Monday. I'm going to South Carolina to see it. Anyone else have eclipse plans?

Tonight's ONT brought to you by Science!

The Yahoo Group is so stoned that those look like penguins to them.

Personal Note: I'd like to apologize for the cut and paste nature of the ONT tonight, things are pretty hectic around here. As I mentioned a month or so ago, Gingy's father was diagnosed with liver cancer. While it seemed to be a slow growing type that should respond well to treatment, yesterday he finally got in to see the oncologist (and only that soon because there was a cancellation -Yay! Socialized medicine!) and it seems his liver function is compromised enough that there are no treatment options available, all that's left is palliative care. Gingy is crushed, and frankly I am too. I may not be around much tonight (then again, I might, sleep didn't come real easy last night) as I have to get up at zero dark thirty to take her to the airport to fly home. Any thoughts or prayers that y'all have to spare would be deeply appreciated.

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Charlottesville Escalation and our Drama Culture [Warden]

—Open Blogger

My wife took our two boys, one five and the other 11 years old, to the younger ones kindergarten open house on Monday. At the event, which was organized by the PTA, were several food trucks.

After showing our kindergartner-to-be his new classroom, my wife got into one of the food truck lines. This one was selling "gourmet sandwiches," whatever that is. I imagine the word artisanal appeared somewhere on the menu. Perhaps there were heirloom tomatoes as well.

While standing in line, my wife noticed that the truck was covered with political bumper stickers, all of them left wing and anti-Trump. As she moved closer her eye caught one that read, "The last time we let Christians run government, it was called the Dark Ages."

My wife turned to our older boy pointed to the sign and said, "I can't give this man my money." He took a look and said, "Okay, Mom. Let's try one over there."

When she told me this story, I responded that I would have probably waited in line until I was up front, then told the owner why I wouldn't be giving him my money. She looked at me and said something that's stuck with me all week:

"No, I don't think anything at all about someone like that. It didn't make me emotional. I just wasn't giving him my money. Any further thought isn't worth my time."

And of course she was right and my knee-jerk response would have been wrong. What a great example she is to our kids.

What would have been accomplished by confronting that food truck owner, especially in front of a bunch of kids? He's got some opinions I don't like. So what? It's not like I'm going to change his mind about anything. Most likely, a person who would put a sign like that on their place of business would welcome a bit of conflict and drama. Why else put it there when it can only cost you money?

Which leads us to Charlottesville...

Washington Post (The National Laughingstock) Publishes Op-Ed Calling for Political Violence

—Ace

Yes, I can see now how completely opposed to political violence you are.

Marty Baron lives in a $1.7 million condo in Logan Circle. It’s seven blocks away from the headquarters of the Washington Post. And a 12 minute drive away from the FBI’s J Edgar Hoover Building.

Arrest him.

His paper’s latest contribution to wrecking this country is an editorial titled "Charlottesville showed that liberalism can't defeat white supremacy. Only direct action can."

It concludes with, “Start throwing rocks."

"Resistance, be it forceful or clandestine, threatened or explicit, stands as our 'rock.' Rocks can look like armed self-defense or nonviolent direct-action campaigns," N.D. B. Connolly, a history professor at Johns Hopkins who specializes in racism writes.

"In April 1968, amid a flurry of other 'rocks,' riots shook American cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It took that rolling unrest, not the promise of further economic growth, to spur President Lyndon Johnson and Congress to action."

Incitement to riot is a crime. And it’s about time that the Washington Post along with other media outlets was held accountable for the violence that is tearing apart our cities and our campuses.

The National Laughingstock isn't quite done yet, though. Here is their thoroughly airbrushed, sanitized account of what Antifa supposedly is, which does everything to recruit for them short of including a sign-up sheet.

But what is antifa? Where did it come from? Militant anti-fascist or "antifa" (pronounced ANtifa) is a radical pan-leftist politics of social revolution applied to fighting the far right. Its adherents are predominantly communists, socialists and anarchists who reject turning to the police or the state to halt the advance of white supremacy. Instead they advocate popular opposition to fascism as we witnessed in Charlottesville.

We call this "mob violence" or "vigilante violence" -- except when we approve of it.

There are antifa groups around the world, but antifa is not itself an interconnected organization, any more than an ideology like socialism or a tactic like the picket line is a specific group. Antifa are autonomous anti-racist groups that monitor and track the activities of local neo-Nazis.

This picture at the Daily Caller shows the result of "monitoring" a "neo-Nazi" who showed up at a college speech. He was struck in the head with a U-shaped bike lock (a heavy improvised weapon made of steel). The professor who cracked his skull was ignored by police and only outed by 4chan -- after which, the police resigned themselves to arresting him on three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

Here is a Politco story about "antifascists" (Politico's word) "monitoring" a speech at Middlebury College, which ended with a riot and "antifascists" wrenching the neck of a female prof who tried to protect the speaker Charles Murray.

The woman had to be hospitalized.

Let's read more about how great this leaderless "anti-fascist" movement is:

They expose them to their neighbors and employers, they conduct public education campaigns, they support migrants and refugees and they pressure venues to cancel white power events.

Note that pressure might occasionally involve riots and personal assaults with deadly weapons>

The vast majority of anti-fascist organizing is nonviolent.

Cite? Everytime they gather there is violence -- which they start.

But their willingness to physically defend themselves and others from white supremacist violence and preemptively shut down fascist organizing efforts before they turn deadly distinguishes them from liberal anti-racists.

Oh, they're defending themselves, huh?

The guy who sprayed this young woman giving an interview was attacking them, you say?

Antifascists argue that after the horrors of chattel slavery and the Holocaust, physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective. We should not, they argue, abstractly assess the ethical status of violence in the absence of the values and context behind it. Instead, they put forth an ethically consistent, historically informed argument for fighting Nazis before it’s too late.

Here's a historically informed, ethically consistent sucker-punch of a guy just standing on the street:

This is the Washington Post -- advocating physical violence against political opponents.

You want a war?

Be careful of what you wish for, fellas.

Fusion Co-Founder Will Answer Questions -- But Not Publicly, and Not With Senators Present

—Ace

The allowances we make for the people of the left, huh?

Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the firm that assembled the infamous "Russian dossier" that purported to offer intelligence about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, will be interviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee later this month.

Simpson's interview, however, will most likely be with committee staff instead of the senators themselves, according to a report by Politico, which cited a source familiar with the issue.

The funding for the dossier has become of increasing interest for conservatives, as it assembled a host of allegations against Trump while he was a candidate, most of which have either been debunked or can't be proven. Many of the sources of the claims in the dossier also can't be pinned down with any accuracy.

The dossier was used in part to obtain a warrant to surveil Trump associate Carter Page in 2016, according to a report by the Washington Post in April. Page has constantly mocked the document as the "dodgy dossier."

Will it at least be under oath, or are we just like Whatever on this?

Missouri Lawmaker: "I Hope Trump Is Assassinated"

—Ace

Remember what Big Brother told you, though: there is no such thing as a violent left. It's a figment of the racist Republican imagination.

A Democratic Missouri state senator from University City posted, then quickly deleted, a comment on Facebook saying she hoped President Donald Trump would be assassinated.

Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal told The Star she posted the comment out of frustration with the “trauma and despair” the president is causing with his statements about the events in Charlottesville, Va.

“The way I responded this morning was wrong,” she told The Star. “I’m frustrated. Did I mean the statement? No. Am I frustrated? Absolutely. The president is causing damage. He’s causing hate.”

He seems to cause a lot of it in the Democrat Party and media. And the GOP establishment liberal wing too. But I repeat myself thrice.

There Is No Alt-Left, Continued: "Let's Blow Up Mount Rushmore," a Vice article proposes.

Jake Tapper "Reports" on Antifa Attacking Journalists... On Twitter. And Without Calling Them Antifa.

—Ace

John Sexton is a close friend and I don't want to hit him on this.

But as a general matter, it's time for conservatives to stop being #CheapDates for Jake Tapper.

He mentioned this on Twitter. I doubt he will feature it on, you know, his actual TV show.

He does this a lot -- if you embarrass him about his non-coverage of a major story that he's embargoing because of his lefty politics, he'll mention it on Twitter, as he did here, but he'll keep his CNN show clean of this offensive material.

His show's on now-- let me know if he gets 'round to mentioning it.

If a critic points out his blatant hypocrisy -- his bullshit posture of a Real News MAN Who Reports Without Prejudice or Favor -- he'll give you a little "Shut up, I 'covered' that on Twitter" appeasement.

But it won't the make the actual TV "news" cast.

Check the timestamps here:

Notice, by the way, that he provides three descriptors for the protesters -- "Nazi/KKK/Alt-right" -- but his descriptor for antifa is just "people protesting the Nazs/KKK/Alt-right."

He's been on a jeremiad about specifically naming the evil groups -- why does he lose his nerve with antifa?

Later in this series of tweets, he notes a letter written by antifa defends/excuses this attack, but he's careful not to id the assailant as antifa.

Over the years, I've got a lot of excuses from Jake Tapper about why major stories do not appear on his show.

The Iran Echo Chamber story? I don't trust that source, he told me, not giving any reasons for that lack of trust. When I later told him Ben Rhodes and Ned Price had confirmed the quotes attributed to them, he said something like "It was a busy news day" or whatever.

Months later the Iran Echo Chamber story was in the news again, and I again asked why he wasn't covering it. Again he told me "I don't trust that source," forgetting, it seems, that he had already offered that excuse previously and I had already rebutted it by linking Rhodes and Price affirming the quotes.

Jake Tapper's main outreach to conservatives is just making bullshit excuses for his leftist bias -- he was a former "star" Salon reporter, don't forget -- which is hailed as some kind of victory by his fanbois on the right (of which there are many-- and I specifically do not include John Sexton (of whom I am a fanboi, as you might gather from my many links to him)).

When pressed, and with no avenue of easy retreat, Tapper will mention something on Twitter, and then Noah C. Rothman will applaud his "courage" for tweeting a story late in the night.

But he's #OnTheTelevision, and the television is the new Cult of the Saints. Many people just seem to lose their shit when someone from the TV!!! "interacts" with them on twitter. It's enough to create a permanent loyalty to the Great Television Celebrity for many.

I have to admit, I know people from movies or tv, and yeah, you do kind of think "OMG, someone from TV or the movies!" I admit it. Yes, it's a major thing. Even if you try to be cool about it, it's still a thing.

But the intense cult of loyalty Tapper has instilled in his devoted suckophants merely for retweeting them (or sending a cursory DM after they effusively praise him for his "bravery") is a bit too far, isn't it?

If you want to meet the real Jake Tapper, here's how you do it:

Criticize him online for bias. Oh sure he's quite swell if you're praising him. Who wouldn't be?

But try criticizing him for his bias.

You will then meet the Real Jake Tapper -- not the Pleasant Celebrity Who Pleasantly Accepts Your Fawning Admiration -- in your DMs.

And the Real Jake Tapper isn't the one who flatters you with some small amount of Twitter Attention after you praise him.

But then, he is #OnTelevision. And therefore, adult men should continue allowing themselves to be reduced to quivering schoolgirls when such a "celebrity" as he gives them some minor attention.

Uh-Oh: Trump Tweets

—Ace

Trump is apparently referring to a bloody campaign Pershing conducted against the Philippines (Muslim) terrorists.

Now, bear in mind, we've had a week now where the media has fallen over itself to defend violence against American citizens just for saying admittedly hateful and offensive things. Punch a Nazi has never been more popular, with even "prinicpled" figures on the right basically suggesting that vigilante street justice is approved if the target sufficiently upsets Jon Podhoretz.

But now that Trump has suggested some Punch an Islamist Terrorist justice (in the context of an actual war, which is legal), we're going to suddenly hear a lot of tunes changing on this question of whether or not you toss out the rules when you're up against Nazis. One rule for for White Nazis, another much more humane and understanding rule for Brown Nazis.

Islamist Jew-Hating Nazi Crashes Van Into Crowd In Front of Kosher Market in Spain

—Ace

I've been hearing for a week that we must name, specifically, the hateful Hate Groups behind this hate.

And yet, oddly, CNN is reticent to do so all of a sudden.

I won't be -- this is another attack by the anti-semitic racists of the Islamist Nazis.

Update:

"The police identify one of those responsible in the Barcelona attack: Driss Oukabir"

So he's either an Islamist, or an upcoming Star Wars character.

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Of course they're not going to be stop with a few Confederate generals. They're just getting started. Pretty soon it will be all statues. Then it'll be movies. Then books. They're on a roll and they're not going to stop until they've turned the entire country into 'Fahrenheit 451', Mao's Cultural Revolution, and '1984' all mashed up together and managed by Google"

Also:

What better way to disillusion the south of their idea they were fighting tyranny than by forcefully tearing down their monuments

— PollySpin (@PollySpin) August 15, 2017

Apparently, Shia La Beueioeaeiouf never gets tired of losing:

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— Lo-Ping ?? ?? (@GamingAndPandas) August 15, 2017

Love Trumps Hate:

Quiz: Labradoodle or Fried Chicken?

This sentiment never gets old:

Close it up

Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

I have a soft spot in my heart for Rembrandt, because he seems to be painting humanity. I look at his works and know that there is a soul inside his subjects, whereas most other artists simply can't do that.

The Morning Report 8/17/17

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. The Republican Party is no more. It is dead. It has ceased to be. It has joined the choir invisible and is pushing up the daisies. In the wake of last November's election, perhaps the most stunning upset in at least a generation and a complete shock to the Deep State establishment, instead of parlaying its victory and national mandate to begin the attempt to rollback the last eight to possibly 50 years of the Fabian Socialist counter-revolution, this collection of thieves, drunk on their own power and influence, have decided it better to keep lining their pockets by protecting their ideologically-driven Marxist cohorts in the Democrat Party than to try and save some vestige of the nation and system that got them elected in the first place.

But wait; there's more. And it's worse by orders of magnitude. Not content to merely play the role of Emanuel Goldstein with a wink and a nod to the Democrats and their Media overlords, with the victory of Donald Trump, their hatred of this man and by extension we who elected him has caused this group of supine stooges to actually lose their minds. John McCain, Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio are consciously and willingly helping to mainstream the ranks of Democrat-protected and funded terrorists and anarchists while blood-libeling we the people and the President as racist crackpots. It would be bad enough if these three bastards were merely backbenchers from a battleground state. They're not; they are leaders of the party and presidential candidates, two of whom were nominees. In the name of God, do you not know what you're doing?! Are you that spiteful and greedy as to not understand the goals and motivations of the people with whom you have just jumped into bed?!

Another far-left group at Charlottesville last weekend: the Workers World Party, a group of Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries who have declared their support for Kim Jong Un's murderous dictatorship in North Korea. Workers World's publication has consistently published propaganda-like screeds supporting Venezuela's murderous regime.

The communist group "sent many of its members to Charlottesville, Va., to beat back the Nazis and Klan who marched there," according to a post recapping the group's participation in the weekend's violence....

....Workers' World's stated goals are classic Marxism, including igniting an international socialist revolution and "the shutdown of the Pentagon and the use of the war budget" --- that is, the funding for the Department of Defense --- "to improve the lives of the working class and especially the oppressed peoples."

You three disgust me. I have no use for you. You are a collective disgrace to the nation. The sooner you disappear from the landscape of political discourse the better off we will all be.

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

• McStain, Mutt and Dondi Become Terrorist Antifada Sympathizers Against President Trump
  
• Here's Who the Three Stooges Signed On To: Antifada's Goals in Their Own Words
  
• Literally Himmler Steve Bannon Denounces "Alt-Right" as "Collection of Clowns," Sez Democarts' Playing Race Card Will Crush them in 2020
  
• Jeffrey Lord: Is it Time to Ban the Democrat Party?
  
• Harry Stein: Who's Next, George Washington?
  
• Media Plead Ignorance of "Alt-Left"
  
• The Real Race War (Not the Fake One Against "White Supremacy")
  
• Ingraham Eviscerates Krauthammer in Debate Over PDT's Charlottesville Presser
  
• Top FBI Investigator Abandons Mueller Anti-PDT Fishing Expedition
  
• Nikki Haley Ramps Up Criticism/Pressure of Obama/GOP Iran Nuclear Sell-Out
  
• The Good Roger Simon: What Do the Palestinians and NorKs Have in Common?
  
• Healthcare: Is it Time to Replace the Majority Leader?
  
• Greenfield: The Democrats' Dangerous Dolchstosslegende
  
• Electoral Fraud Red Flag: US Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults
  
• Nike Founder Phil Knight Donates $500Gs to.... Oregon GOP Gubernatorial Candidate?!
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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (8/16/17) Geography-Cities Edition

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner

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Robots Are Stupid

—Ace

...but probably more competent than 40% of the American workforce.

Non-Partisan Media Which Is Totally Not In the Bag for Radical Violent Leftswing Organizations Now Comparing Antifa to WWII Veterans

—Ace

Nailed it in one go.

Oddly, a whole bunch of the #JournOListMajors seemed to have the exact same idea at around the exact time. Some even used the same pictures of amphibious landing craft dropping doors open on Omaha Beach.

The media also spent a lot of time calling people Nazis for noting that the Media's Favorite Communist Street Thugs were communist street thugs.

Tim Kaine Has Harsh Words For Violent Thugs, Not Including His Son Who Was Arrested for Violent Disruption of a Peaceful Rally

—Ace

And indeed, "Linwood Michael Kaine" was indeed arrested and charged for his participation in a riot that included throwing a pyrotechnic device at an old woman's head.

The son of former vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine will face criminal charges for his role in a violent smoke bomb-fueled riot that broke out at a pro-Trump rally, according to a report Friday.

Linwood Michael Kaine, 24, of Minneapolis, Minnesota — whose father was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate — was slapped with three misdemeanor charges tied to a melee in St. Paul, the Pioneer Press reported.

The charges, which were filed by the Ramsey county attorney Friday, include fleeing police on foot, concealing his identity and obstructing the legal process with force, according to the paper.

The Virginia senator’s son was initially busted on second-degree riot charges after a fight erupted between protesters and supporters on March 4.

One of the demonstrators allegedly tossed a smoke bomb into the crowd — striking a 61-year-old woman in the head, the Pioneer Press reported at the time. Others unleashed pepper spray and blew whistles and airhorns amid the chaos, according to past reports.

Linwood Kaine was wearing the black clothes and mask of antifa, but began stripping out of those clothes when cops came to wrangle him. They say he was apprehended while "spinning out" of his black antifa riot garb.

But the Ruling Class has rights and privileges the commoners do not have, and should not have.

Jim "The Human Selfie" Acosta: Trump Showed His Colors, and They Weren't Red, White, and Blue

—Ace

I guess he only knows the one poem, because now he's just on to naming primary colors seen in flags.

Having already said earlier in the day that Trump’s presidency went “off the rails,” Acosta showed up on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon seemed to echo much of what host Don Lemon said earlier today when the anchor stated that the president’s “true colors are coming out.”

“I think we saw the president’s true colors today,” Acosta stated. “I’m not sure they were red, white, and blue.”

Jim Acosta's main color is pink, and I don't mean that he's a communist. Well I do mean that, but not right this second. I'm just sayin', he seems like the kind of guy who likes a pink thong.

Area Woman Gives Boastful Press Conference About Her Malicious Vandalism Charges

—Ace

Supposedly she'll be charged. I foresee a short probation in her future -- not even a slap on the wrist.

She held a press conference to insist a slap on the wrist was too grave a penalty for just seeking Justice:

How did the police locate Thompson to arrest her? Once the protesters learned police were planning to make arrests, they held a press conference at the college with signs that read “Drop the charges.”

By the way, the statue she pulled down was... rather less of a pro-Confederacy monument than the historically illiterate vandals assumed.

The statue, which honored children conscripted against their will into the Confederate Army during the Civil War, stood in Durham's public square since 1924.

Let's just pull All the Statues down.

Oh wait -- bagman and fixer Terry MacAuliffe has already proposed that.

Virginia governor candidate calls for the removal of all Confederate statues in the state https://t.co/svnpqUGLn1 pic.twitter.com/DQP6bcJ8om

— The Hill (@thehill) August 16, 2017

Update: Two more arrested.

All three criminals are associated with the Worker's World Party, a communist extremist group.

But there is no alt-left. It's just a made-up word.

As Trump Predicted: Pastor Demands George Washington Statue Be Removed; Flashback: Leftists Demand Teddy Roosevelt Statue Be Destroyed

—Ace

George Washington owned slaves -- and that's all he did.

A Chicago pastor has asked the Emanuel administration to remove the names of two presidents who owned slaves from parks on the South Side, saying the city should not honor slave owners in black communities.

A bronze statue of George Washington on horseback stands at the corner of 51st and King Drive, at the northwest entrance to Washington Park.

Bishop James Dukes, pastor of Liberation Christian Center, said he wants the statue gone, and he wants George Washington’s name removed from the park.

“When I see that, I see a person who fought for the liberties, and I see people that fought for the justice and freedom of white America, because at that moment, we were still chattel slavery, and was three-fifths of humans,” he said. “Some people out here ask me, say ‘Well, you know, he taught his slaves to read.’ That’s almost sad; the equivalent of someone who kidnaps you, that you gave them something to eat.”

Dukes said, even though Washington was the nation’s first president and led the American army in the Revolutionary War, he’s no hero to the black community.

“There’s no way plausible that we would even think that they would erect a Malcolm X statue in Mount Greenwood, Lincoln Park, or any of that. Not that say Malcolm X was a bad guy; they just would not go for it,” he said. “Native Americans would not even think about putting up a Custer statue, because of the atrocities that he plagued upon Native Americans. And for them to say to us ‘just accept it’ is actually insulting.”

This story is from last year, but goes with the new one: Leftist activist demand that New York Natural History Museum take down the statue of Teddy Roosevelt, a "racist."

BTW, I'm pretty sure Teddy Roosevelt's statue is there because he founded the museum.

Here's another flashback, this one to 2015:

The Morning Rant

—OregonMuse

"Well, here we go: A disgusting CBS news story about how Iceland is using abortion to 'eliminate' Down's Syndrome, and I don't know what's worse, making DS sound like polio or smallpox, or that the way they're doing it is by murdering DS kids while they're still in the womb, or the fact that this is just eugenics smuggled in through the back door."

Here is the article that CBSNews GP is referring to: "What kind of society do you want to live in?": Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing.

The article mentions that murdering DS children in the womb isn't strictly an Icelandic thing:

According to the most recent data available, the United States has an estimated termination rate for Down syndrome of 67 percent (1995-2011); in France it's 77 percent (2015); and Denmark, 98 percent (2015). The law in Iceland permits abortion after 16 weeks if the fetus has a deformity -- and Down syndrome is included in this category.

Progressive medicine is concerned primarily with determining who you need to murder and what the best methods are for murdering them.

Eugenics, formerly all the rage in Europe and even here in America, went underground after the destruction of the Third Reich, but, as GP observed, progressives keep trying to sneak it back in. They don't openly campaign for eugenics in the name of eugenics, but it always seems to be in the background of progressive thought, just waiting to come out when the time is right.

I see Patricia Heaton is on the same page as GP:

Iceland isn't actually eliminating Down Syndrome. They're just killing everybody that has it. Big difference. #Downsyndrome #abortion https://t.co/gAONIzqRXW

— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) August 15, 2017

Oh, and lest we forget, you know who else is a big fan of eugenics? Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Mid-Morning Open Thread

—CBD

I would love to know what the hell is going on in this guy's head, and what Copley was thinking when he painted this portrait.

You Massholes might know his name....