[Breitbart] The number of companies announcing investment -- and in many cases a return to investment -- in the U.S.A. with a corresponding rush to create jobs for Americans has continued to grow even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
In the weeks after his election on November 8, a series of large corporations announced major initiatives to expand in the U.S. but, since then, the number has only grown.
By the middle of December, several companies had announced new jobs and expansion plans for the U.S., including Carrier Air Conditioner Manufacturing (1,000 Jobs), SoftBank Telecommunications (50,000 Jobs), U.S. Steel (10,000 Jobs), and IBM (25,000 Jobs). In addition, representatives of America’s small businesses noted that Trump’s election filled them with hope for a resurgence in startups and a new expansion phase for their constituents.
But since December, the number of companies announcing expansion plans for the U.S. have only grown. Other companies announcing large expansion projects include the following:
When people "act out," it's often because a particularly raw nerve has been touched, some basic fear triggered.
And acting out is clearly what John Lewis and the umpteen (as of now 58) other Democrats are doing in refusing to attend the inauguration (Lewis apparently not for the first time). They claim this is because Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, etc., etc., anathema to everything an "inclusive" America should be, and therefore unfit for the office. Not only that, Vladimir Putin put him there.
But that's the surface of what's really upsetting them, what the shrinks call the "presenting complaint." Deep down it's something else, something far more potent.
They're afraid Donald Trump might actually succeed.
The liberal-progressivism espoused by Lewis and those following him has been a failure for decades in many areas, but especially for large numbers of African-Americans. Nothing has demonstrated this more clearly than the Obama administration during which we have seen a rise in unchecked violence, largely black-on-black, in many African-American communities (notably Chicago and Baltimore), substantially diminished labor participation rates, particularly among the young, the tragic continued disappearance of the black middle class family, and the rise of what are essentially reactionary, separatist groups like Black Lives Matter. MLK's dream of integration inherent in the civil rights movement of Lewis' time has been and is being trampled.
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I wonder how all of the Democrats down on the plantation are going to feel when Trump's policies and executive actions put hundreds of thousands of blacks and other minorities to work and rebuilds the middle class?
I suppose they will have to elect another communist in centrist clothing to undo it all. Voter fraud are you hearing me.
I just hope we pass a law that requires voter ID in Federal elections. That might put an end to the crap.
Not unlike the recent presidential election polls.
[Breitbart] Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh dismissed polling that showed President-elect Donald Trump’s approval ratings slumping in the lead up to inauguration.
Limbaugh, reacting to CNN "New Day" anchor Alisyn Camerota’s question to a guest about how to explain the polling, declared the polls to be "fake news" and "fake polls."
"I’ll explain it to you Alisyn: fake news, fake polls," Limbaugh said. "It’s simple -- fake news, fake polls. Don’t doubt me on this folks. Lowest approval rating, for a year and a half, the nation loved Donald Trump. People just couldn’t get enough of him and they elected him president. And in less than eight weeks, massive regret, massive buyer’s remorse. People that voted for Trump are saying, ’Man, if we had known what we’ve seen the last eight weeks, there’s no way we would have voted Trump even though the last eight weeks is exactly what we loved for a year and a half.’ Trump is Trump, every day. Doesn’t matter before the election, after the election. But now they don’t. Now they’re scared. Now they’re worried."
Hat tip to Legal Insurrection
Obama is ending his presidency not only with a flurry of commutations, but also with appointments to various commissions and governmental entities.
One of those entities is the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, to which Obama just appointed Ben Rhodes. The Jerusalem Post reports:
"With only three days left in office, US President Barack Obama announced several key administration posts on Wednesday, including the placement of Benjamin Rhodes, one of his top foreign policy advisers, on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
The council is comprised of 55 members appointed by the president. Its primary task is to fund-raise for the nation's Holocaust Museum and its various projects….
Rhodes, 40, is Jewish. He has worked with Obama since 2007."
Who is Ben Rhodes?
He's the Obama communications operative who admitted to deceiving the American public and manipulating the media in support of the Iran Nuclear Deal. (He also ran the Benghazi disinformation campaign.)
Ben Rhodes is evil. What's being done is that Champ is moving people into "senior executive service" positions -- supposed to be apolitical, they're at the top of the civil service food-chain and even harder to get rid of than your average GS-11. They get a cushy sinecure where they don't do anything useful, they can't be fired, and they meddle as they please. And you just try getting rid of the Holocaust Museum Commission or whatever.
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I think we need a law that any appointments, pardons, regulations, or the like made in the last 90 days of the president's time in office are subject to review and approval by the next president.
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BenRhodes is evil. What's being done is that Champ is moving people into "senior executive service" positions -- supposed to be apolitical, they're at the top of the civil service food-chain and even harder to get rid of than your average GS-11.
It's called... 'burrowing.'
Wiki: Burrowing is a slang term used in the United States to describe the practice in which political appointees are given civil service protection. Except for judges, political appointees are subject to losing their jobs when a new administration takes power. On the other hand, career government officials are protected from losing their jobs when a new administration takes over. Burrowing is therefore the practice of reassigning people who do not have civil service protection into jobs that have civil service protection.
From his new position at the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Rhodes will soon (within a year I believe - someone korrect me if I am wrong) be able to transfer to any position in the government.
I think we need a law that any appointments, pardons, regulations, or the like made in the last 90 days of the president's time in office are subject to review and approval by the next president.
Can't do that with pardons -- protected by the Constitution (Article II, section 2). The rest can be done simply by (in most cases) reversing the executive order that granted them in the first place.
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@Crazyfool.
Anything after election day should be subject to approval by the next President.
Excerpt: Trump Knows Top Brass Are Leaking
In his press conference last week, a reporter asked Trump, "But why did you spend weeks undermining U.S. intelligence community before simply getting the facts and then making a public statement?"
Trump responded by talking about how he knows how political some intelligence officials are and also how bad they are at their main job of keeping secrets. Here’s what he said:
Well, I think it’s pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press. I think it’s pretty sad. First of all, it’s illegal. You know, these are -- these are classified and certified meetings and reports.
I’ll tell you what does happen. I have many meetings with intelligence. And every time I meet, people are reading about it. Somebody’s leaking it out. So, there’s -- maybe it’s my office. Maybe in my office because I have a lot of people, a lot of great people. Maybe it’s them. And what I did is I said I won’t tell anybody. I’m going to have a meeting and I won’t tell anybody about my meeting with intelligence.
And what happened is I had my meeting. Nobody knew, not even Rhona, my executive assistant for years, she didn’t know -- I didn’t tell her. Nobody knew. The meeting was had, the meeting was over, they left. And immediately the word got out that I had a meeting.
So, I don’t want that -- I don’t want that. It’s very unfair to the country. It’s very unfair to our country; what’s happened.
Yes, our president-elect ran a successful sting operation to learn where leaks were coming from. This wasn’t even big news in America, though it did attract notice at foreign media outlets.
This weekend, Trump responded to CIA Director John Brennan’s emotional interview against Trump on Fox News Sunday by reminding Brennan of various intelligence failures during the Obama administration and asking if he was "the leaker of Fake News."
Clapper and Brennan are high-profile political opponents of Trump. Both have denied being leakers. Technically, Clapper said he does "not believe the leaks came from within the IC," meaning "intelligence community." Then again, knowledgeable observers say that at least one of these two men appears credited or uncredited in most stories related to the leaks.
Clapper is also known for lying to Congress about whether he was spying on them and lying under oath about whether intelligence agencies were collecting any kind of data on hundreds of millions of Americans. He said they weren’t. They were.
The bottom line is that these leaks are almost certainly coming from a very small pool of Obama political appointees at intelligence agencies." Lengthy piece. Bring a glass of wine and settle in to some interesting stuff.
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Who now remembers the snows of yesteryear, or when the CIA released to the press the report they'd submitted to President George W. Bush saying Iran had given up pursuing nuclear bombs just to keep President Bush from doing anything about it, though it was obvious the report was untrue?
[DAWN] THE world holds its breath as Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is installed this week as the most controversial president in American history. Unprecedented uncertainty grips Washington as questions are raised if he can be fully trusted. His election has left the country far more polarised than before.
Hundreds and thousands of women are expected to march to Washington in protest a day after Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. Not an auspicious beginning for a man occupying the world’s most powerful position. "What we’re looking at, all too obviously, is an American kakistocracy -- rule by the worst," writes Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate. He goes on to say that "Mr Trump must not be treated with personal deference simply because of the position he has managed to seize".
I suspect Professor Krugman's name is not on any White House invitation or consultation lists. But Mr. Trump clearly prefers to hear from those who know what they're talking about.
Surely, given an incoming president of questionable moral and political credentials, the US is heading towards uncharted waters. There are already talks about how to restrain him even before his installation. He is at loggerheads with his country’s security establishment and intelligence agencies that he compares with the Nazis.
Admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and the allegation that Moscow influenced the outcome of the presidential election have reinforced distrust of the new president. A recently leaked intelligence dossier, though unverified, alleges that Russia might have compromised Trump by filming him frolicking with sex workers in a Moscow hotel; this has made the new president a ’security risk’ in the view of many US officials.
This suspicion was illustrated by a report published in Israeli newspapers where American officials have warned Israel ’to be careful’ about sharing classified information with the Trump administration for fear that it could be given to Russia. That makes one wonder about the credibility of a leader carrying such a huge baggage of scepticism. Never before has an American president faced such scrutiny over his ability to deal with critical national security matters.
Trump’s odd views on the conduct of US foreign policy are a major cause of apprehension among world leaders. He is determined to build a wall on the border with Mexico to stop the entry of illegal immigrants colonists and make Mexico pay for it too. But most alarming is his decision to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem, thus deviating from Washington’s long-standing policy.
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They're all enjoying feeling so very superior at the moment, ignoring as hard as they can the damage President Obama has done to them over the past eight years.
[DAWN] BARACK Obama entered the White House eight years ago with an inbuilt advantage. His predecessor was George W. Bush. On any number of levels, both international and domestic, the incoming incumbent could hardly have done worse.
He leaves the presidential residence this week with another huge circumstantial plus: the identity of his successor more or less guarantees that Obama will be missed even by many of those who are unwilling to admit it right now. On the other hand, though, would it be entirely inappropriate to view Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... as very much a part of Obama’s legacy? Is he not a crude symptom of the B.O. regime’s inadequacies, particularly on the domestic front?
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The borderline racist Tea Party...
Oh BULLSHIT. Why do any of us allow this ridiculous nonsense to go unchallenged?
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Eight long years. Eight very long years. The Greek columns of Obama are etched in my memory. Only a few hours left remaining. I hope and pray I will live to see it.
[DAWN] It seems that there has been a slight change in the dynamics of the quintessential ’police encounter’. It is no longer the coppers who are ’forced’ to fire upon their fleeing captives. Of late, the dirty job of killing a suspect has been passed on to ’accomplices’. In a ’shoot-out’ between criminals and police, many of the former, it seems, are killed by bullets fired by their own side. This version has been lately repeated to explain the killing on Sunday in Gujrat of four men who were introduced to the world only a day earlier as suspects in the alleged gang rape of two Lady Health Workers. It should best be left to the people to find traces of ’genuineness’ and ’truth’ in the story. The apprehension that it could end up the way it did was raised on Saturday. The coppers concerned had then told the media that the men who had allegedly been involved in the gang rape last month had been traced. Journalists on the beat for long enough know that quite often this is a sign of someone nearby mulling how to quickly dispose of the suspected criminals. It is understood that all the police need is a positive identification by the complainant to ’make sure’ that they have picked up the right person for the punishment -- quite often death in a staged encounter.
The strongest supporters of this attempt at parallel justice are, of course, the coppers themselves, even when, by supporting an encounter, they end up exposing themselves as betraying the judicial system. Indeed, police officials blame the judiciary just as the judges hold the law enforcers responsible for the low conviction rate that is presented as justification for even the most obvious of encounters. But there are an increasing number of desperate souls wanting justice who stand by the act. They are the ones advocating all manner of arbitrary punishment to be meted out without a fair trial which recognises an accused person’s right to defence. It is a sad reflection of just how brutalised Pak society has become that, today, the staged police encounter does not quite draw the same kind of condemnation it once did. Deaths of suspects in police shoot-outs are an acceptable part of routine life today. The approval leaves the police even more prone to abusing their authority. The trend must be checked immediately.
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Is this an impossibility in Islam? Answer me truthfully.
[DAWN] THE status of investigations and trials related to the liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... nine years ago can perhaps be summed up by this: the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has referred the matter to the National Commission on Human Rights -- and demanded that the NCHR submit its report in two weeks. Perhaps the senators can be lauded for doing whatever little they can to draw attention to the lingering resolution of one of the most traumatic episodes in the country’s history. But what the Senate committee may have inadvertently highlighted is the utter helplessness of public officials and the disregard of the state when it comes to bringing to justice those responsible for the liquidation of an iconic woman and a two-time prime minister of the country.
Consider the role played by the PPP itself in the current impasse. Less than a month ago, as the PPP chairman and co-chairman, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari respectively, gathered near the mausoleum of Ms Bhutto to commemorate her ninth death anniversary, there was nary a word mentioned by either party leader -- or, indeed, anyone else in the party -- about the stalled investigations and prosecutions. Instead, Mr Zardari chose to make himself the centre of attention once again by announcing a perplexing run for parliament. But the problem goes deeper than that. Ever since manoeuvring retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... out of the presidency, the PPP has sought to focus blame for the liquidation on the former dictator -- a political strategy that may be rooted in a factual reality, but not something that the party has appeared particularly committed to helping prove. Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... the five individuals in jug and accused of involvement in or having knowledge of the plot to kill Ms Bhutto have largely been disregarded by the PPP. The party leadership’s contention that low-level figures involved in the liquidation plot are mere pawns, and therefore of little relevance, may be partly true, but laying bare the full spectrum of involvement in a crime that shook the nation ought to be a permanent priority of the PPP.
Perhaps, though, no explanation of the PPP’s apparent disinterest in concluding what has sadly become a saga of trials related to Ms Bhutto’s liquidation can be complete without an examination of the state’s utter disregard for solving what remains a national mystery. The Constitution was amended, military courts were created and more than 150 so-called jet-black turbans sentenced to death by those courts -- many for high-profile attacks against military targets. But the interest in identifying and prosecuting the cabal involved in Ms Bhutto’s liquidation is nil. Why? The long, bitter political history stretching from the liquidation of the country’s first prime minister to the elimination of arguably its most famous prime minister needs legal and political closure.
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[DAWN] LAST week, officials from Morocco’s interior ministry took to the markets. There they visited some merchants and handed them a letter. "We notice that you sell the burqa," the letter noted, before asking the merchants to get rid of the existing stock within 48 hours and to not sell it in future.
The ban on the sale and manufacture does not apply to the headscarf or hijab or even to the niqab, which covers half a woman’s face leaving the eyes exposed. It only applies to the full burqa that covers the entire face and permits vision through a mesh at the front.
The new restrictions were touted as part of Morocco’s fight against religious extremism, noting that while the hijab is common in the country, the full burqa was the import of bad boy religious groups whose activities the Moroccan government was trying to curb.
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I go out of my way to stare at the handful of "walking bags" that appear in my neck of the woods. I point them out to the retailers that allow them inside, and make a point of either poking jokes about them and/or making it clear I don't feel safe around them. Fuck them. I don't walk in their presence in full disguise, and I sure don't feel comfortable with them walking around me in such a concealing costume.
[DAWN] THE Indo-US strategic partnership has been a source of constant tension in Pak-US ties in recent years. The US has pursued ’de-hyphenation’ ie dealing with Islamabad and New Delhi relatively independently of each other. Central to this has been its hands-off approach on contentious Pak-India issues.
Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has excited the Pak policy space by hinting at his willingness to reconsider the US line. Pak officials in touch with Washington have been trying to determine if Trump will actually consider a more proactive effort to improve Pak-India ties.
While there’s no definitive answer, one can point to factors that will influence the Trump White House’s final policy. President B.O.’s experience is a starting point. Candidate Obama was explicit in promising a regional approach to South Asia during the 2008 campaign. His reasoning confirmed an appreciation of the link between Pak-India tensions and their fallout on Afghanistan: to solve Afghanistan, one needs improvement on the Pak-India front. The Indians shot down his idea and US policy recoiled to its de-hyphenation default.
The Trump administration will confront the same set of challenges -- and more.
First, the Washington policy establishment is even more solidly committed to opposing US involvement in Pak-India issues than it was eight years ago. I have challenged the wisdom of this stance given that it contradicts US interest in South Asia. But few accept the proposition. Still, some in Pakistain hope that the Trump team may be less worried about defying Washington’s establishment. Perhaps. But a new administration with multiple policy positions seemingly at odds with this establishment would have to pick its battles carefully. Non-priorities like Pak-India may be ones to sacrifice.
Second, Trump’s position on China will complicate things. If Sino-US competition accentuates, India will be even more important as a counterweight to Beijing. India’s leverage over the US would increase, and it will demand that Washington put Pak-India back in cold storage. Pakistain’s backing of China would strengthen India’s case.
Third, Afghanistan will influence Washington’s approach. A tougher US line on the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network is on the cards. Pakistain’s likely resistance to fresh US demands to ’do more’ would imply added tensions in ties, creating more space for critical voices in Washington to oppose US engagement on Pak-India issues.
Fourth, Pakistain continues to be its own worst enemy. The state’s policies on anti-India bully boy outfits can’t win it any champions. The world cannot be expected to reach but the most sceptical conclusion when it sees leaders of anti-India outfits floating around freely and when it finds the Pak state trying to avoid sincerely prosecuting those charged with committing terrorism in India. Perhaps nothing has aided India’s global push to isolate Pakistain more than the latter’s mishandling of the Mumbai trials.
Finally, any US leader must ask: what is the probability of success? Washington’s bureaucracy is hesitant to put the US president out on such issues without a real possibility of success. The prognosis for Kashmire is anything but. Indeed, it is no coincidence that while Pakistain’s position articulates the need for US involvement, it explains little on how this would lead to a realistic resolution. Even the most committed Trump White House won’t want to set itself up to fail.
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[Daily Caller] Director John Brennan said growing up a "white male from New Jersey" led him to his strong promotion of gay rights in the Central Intelligence Agency, which included his wearing a rainbow lanyard around Langley to show he is an LGBTQ ally.
In his final interview as head of the CIA, Brennan told the Wall Street Journal that he hopes his legacy is the "way he fought to nurture a workforce that reflected America’s diversity."
During his tenure he has put particular emphasis on promoting the interests of gay, lesbian, and transgender officers. He was the first CIA director to attend an annual social gathering of LGBTQ employees and has been known to wear a rainbow lanyard around the office as a symbol of solidarity.
For Mr. Brennan, who said his perspective was informed by growing up "a white male from New Jersey," diversity of backgrounds leads to better analysis, which in his estimation can prevent intelligence disasters. "I just think that having those varied perspectives really adds great color and dimension and diversity to how we look at problems," he said. "It gets us away from groupthink."
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I don't recommend moving to Russia. It didn't work out well for the late Guy Burgess.
By the way, you don't suppose eight years of aggressive LGBT recruitment might have possibly created a cadre of anti-Trump employees willing to leak fake news do you ?
Fake news about Trump, blaming (gay intolerant) Russia. Two birds, one stone.
It was interesting and it was assholes like this that made me glad to leave. This is the same type of attitude my father fought when the black chorus teacher wanted to buy a home in our neighborhood and a delegation of good liberal Democrats tried to get a petition to prevent that. They were all for "those" people, just not next door. Never saw the old man that close to clocking someone.
h/t Instapundit
Political correctness was not such a bad idea in the beginning. Western societies have become terribly complex, and a healthy control of language can curb the rise of conflict--although often all it takes is a touch of politeness. This is the great lesson from sixteenth-century European wars of religion: some actions and words must be left outside the public space.
Five centuries later things have escalated, and PC is now a nightmare. It does not only define some areas where it now seems impossible to say anything (for example the so-called "safe spaces" of U.S. universities) but also fails in its basic function: instead of appeasing, it provides new and endless reasons for conflict.
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Political correctness was not such a bad idea in the beginning.
Bzzzzt! Wrong! PC is, and always has been, marxist thought police pure & simple. And the proper response to a PC moron is, and always should be, to suggest they go do something anatomically painful to themselves.
OK, give me one here, mods. This is one more reason people hate the NFL, a chickenshit commissioner. Way to go, Brave Sir Robin....
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be at the Georgia Dome for a second consecutive week, as he'll attend the Packers-Falcons NFC championship game Sunday instead of the AFC championship game at Gillette Stadium, according to multiple reports.
Many believed Goodell had cornered himself into attending the Patriots-Steelers game, considering it would seem odd to visit the same stadium two weeks in a row. But Goodell apparently doesn't care about public perception, because he's skipping out on the Patriots again.
Fans in Foxborough, Mass., obviously have taken notice to Goodell's ducking Patriots games ever since Deflategate began. He hasn't been at Gillette since the 2014 playoffs, and many believe it's because he's scared to attend, considering how much New England fans hate him.
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I'm a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan. As such, I find it almost impossible to root for the Patriots.
Without out of the way, there was ZERO reason for Goodell and company to do what they did over allegedly deflated footballs. What they did was petty, unsubstantiated by anyone who understands air pressure, and worthy of scorn. IF the Patriots win the Super Bowl, I *relish* the moment when that over-paid jackass Goodell is forced to hand them the trophy. Truth is supposed to matter.
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Listening to the faux outrage about cheater! Cheater! CHEATER!!1!!! Patriots on Sports Radio is getting old. If the Patriots had sabotaged the other team's footballs I could muster something other than apathy on the subject.
If it were up to me, I'd drop nuclear bombs on all Ivy League campuses and be done with this pretension. Then again, that's why I'm not running for office.
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps
Dear Mr. President Elect:
In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.
It will come as no surprise to you that we see the relationship as strained. Reports over the last few days that your press secretary is considering pulling news media offices out of the White House are the latest in a pattern of behavior that has persisted throughout the campaign: You’ve banned news organizations from covering you. You’ve taken to Twitter to taunt and threaten individual reporters and encouraged your supporters to do the same. You’ve advocated for looser libel laws and threatened numerous lawsuits of your own, none of which has materialized. You’ve avoided the press when you could and flouted the norms of pool reporting and regular press conferences. You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability.
All of this, of course, is your choice and, in a way, your right (professional journalists, everyone! - ed). While the Constitution protects the freedom of the press, it doesn’t dictate how the president must honor that; regular press conferences aren’t enshrined in the document. My 'open letter' to the CJR - you self-important cocksuckers have earned every fucking ounce of this, and then some. This is long overdue payback, and you damn well know it - stop insulting our intelligence once again and pretending otherwise. I look forward to your continued demise over the next four to eight years. Rot in hell, assholes.
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Dear US Press Corps,
Thank you for your recently sent open letter explaining your position with respect to this upcoming administration. Yes, there is a very real strained relationship between some of you and me as a candidate and now as President elect. Yes there is freedom of the press, but some of you equate freedom with licence. For every bit comes an equal amount of responsibility. In this you have failed and betrayed the trust of the people of this great country.
When I have a press conference I expect basic decorum as respect for the Office of the President and respect for my boss, the American People. You will behave as Ladies and Gentlemen or you will be shown the door. This is how we will do business from now on.
A number of you have betrayed the trust of the public and STILL DO NOT GET IT. I owe you nothing and nothing you will get. Those of you can FOAD. You in this catagory are beyond redemption and will be ignored. For the rest of you I look forward to an honest businesslike relationship as we move ahead.
Sincerely,
President-Elect Donald J. Trump
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A more authentic response, AP, would (IMO) be: "Kish mir in tuches".
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While the Constitution protects the freedom of the press
Yes it does, that is the free flow of information. Your institution the 'Press' did not exist back then to obstruct, manipulate, bury said information as it does today.
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You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t like because he has a disability.
Offer us one tiny shred of proof that Trump knew this reporter was disabled before mocking him.
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In regards to #7, this is why people don't trust the MSM anymore. You invent these little fictions and keep repeating them over and over as if it is dogma so that anyone who has the slightest doubt is a politically incorrect heretic. But you lie and people are beginning to get wise.
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#7 IMO, most reporters are disabled - no moral sense.
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IIRC back in the early days newspapers were masters of BS then too--Explicitly partisan and not averse to making stuff up. Of course there was generally more than one party represented.
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If I had Trump's ear, I'd suggest his administration file antitrust suits against all of the media conglomerates. The resultant screams could be heard on Mars.
[SultanKnish] The Fake News crusade began with BuzzFeed, more than any other member of the media, and it deservedly ends there. It began with BuzzFeed faking news to kick off a crusade against Fake News.
The fake news that BuzzFeed faked was about the threat of Fake News. The numbers were wrong. But that didn’t stop BuzzFeed from warning that what it called Fake News was beating real news. And that’s probably true. BuzzFeed’s discredited Trump dossier story outperformed the NBC story discrediting it.
The Fake News meme was already fading even before BuzzFeed dragged CNN down with it. The Washington Post’s media columnist, Margaret Sullivan, had claimed that the term was “tainted” and needed to be retired; much like her paper. Sullivan warned that non-liberals were using it to attack the media. There was a complaint from the New York Times that conservatives had “appropriated” the term. Meanwhile Sullivan had cited claims about Fake News from BuzzFeed arguing that “something has to happen”. On the panel with Sullivan was the CEO of The Onion: a real fake news organization.
After BuzzFeed’s big fail, the exodus from the USS Fake News is happening faster than rats diving into the icy waters around the Titanic. Seth Meyers, one of those fake news talk show hosts, like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert or John Oliver, whom lefties prefer to get their real news from, dubbed it “busted”.
“Today, Trump called these new reports ‘fake news,’ so despite an incredibly short run, I think it is time to retire that term,” Meyers whined. Trump and conservatives had rudely moved into a gated media community and, as with the arrival of the first black family on the block, it was time to move on.
There are complaints that conservatives are using “Fake News” incorrectly as if it’s some sort of technical term that requires years of study to properly deploy at a graduate seminar. Sullivan claimed that, “Fake news is a very narrow thing.”
How narrow? So narrow that it can’t possibly be applied to the media. Only people the media hates.
The Post’s Callum Borchers claimed that Brian Williams’ lies and Dan Rather’s Microsoft Word letter from the seventies weren’t really Fake News. In an attack on Fake News, Post columnist Petula Dvorak injected her own fake news by blaming Sarah Palin for the Giffords shooting. But that’s not Fake News because the media says so. Now stop calling it that or the media will take its smear and go home. Much more at the link
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Anyone else see similar efforts aimed at Trump, or is it just me ? 
[DAWN] THE world holds its breath as 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] BARACK Obama entered the White House eight years ago with an inbuilt advantage. His predecessor was George W. Bush. On any number of levels, both international and domestic, the incoming incumbent could hardly have done worse.
[DAWN] It seems that there has been a slight change in the dynamics of the quintessential ’police encounter’. It is no longer the 
Pervez 
[DAWN] LAST week, officials from Morocco’s interior ministry took to the markets. There they visited some merchants and handed them a letter. "We notice that you sell the burqa," the letter noted, before asking the merchants to get rid of the existing stock within 48 hours and to not sell it in future.
[Daily Caller] Director John Brennan said growing up a "white male from New Jersey" led him to his strong promotion of gay rights in the Central Intelligence Agency, which included his wearing a rainbow lanyard around Langley to show he is an LGBTQ ally.
