[Daily News] John McLaughlin, the stalwart political commentator who created television’s "McLaughlin Group," died Tuesday at his home in Virginia. He was 89.
His death came less than two days after he missed the first episode of his show in 34 years.
"As a former Jesuit priest, teacher, pundit and news host, John touched many lives," the show’s producers wrote on Facebook.
"For 34 years, "The McLaughlin Group" informed millions of Americans. Now he has said bye bye for the last time, to rejoin his beloved dog, Oliver, in heaven. He will always be remembered."
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'One of the early talking heads telling us what to think...'
Sorry, 'impartially consolidating many selected streams of information and opinion through inspired pseudolectuals so that we could make informed decisions about the world's events'...no, that's not right either...
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals; and
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girliemen.
Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.
Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today's lesson in world history: It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it. A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off.
[Gateway Pundit] Respect! Jamaican gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt interrupted a post-race interview on Sunday with a Mexican reporter to listen to the US National Anthem. He just passed my 'Extreme Vetting' and visa muster. He can visit and stay at our house any time he likes. I'll share him with you...
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Wouldn't be surprised if some NFL or NBA scouts have their eyes on him. If he could catch a football he'd make a heckuva wide receiver. If he can't catch a football he'd make a heckuva safety or cornerback.
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Hey mon, you know? Don't be trying to pattern your runs on me.
Demonstrations, violent crime, infrastructure failures and poverty are set to greet spectators this weekend in an event that some economists say could mean upward of $15 billion in losses for Brazil.
Brazilians are tangled in a state of political turmoil and economic uncertainty that was not as apparent in 2009, when the decision was made to hold the games in Rio. The Olympic Games will cost Brazil $20 billion and return only $4 billion to $4.5 billion — a steep price to pay for propaganda to show how nice a country is that is plagued with infrastructure problems and endemic poverty. Awarding the games to developing countries like Brazil as a relatively new phenomenon.
The International Olympic Committee sells the games to countries on the promise that it will help them, but evidence suggests that long-term benefits are not forthcoming.
About 9 percent Brazil’s roughly 200 million people lived on less than $3.10 per day in 2013, according to the World Bank. The decision to host the games in Rio was made in 2009, during what appeared to be an upswing for the Brazilian economy, but that the outlook has now become considerably cloudier.
This year Brazil’s Senate impeached Dilma Rousseff — the country’s first female president, who helped deliver the games to Rio — over accusations that she faked accounts in order to portray a more optimistic economic outlook during her re-election bid in 2014.
Living in the greater Chicago area, I'm more thankful than ever today that Champ and Moochelle punted the US bid to put the 2016 Games here...
Public executions and surveillance have reached new levels of terror in North Korea this year, sources from the repressive country say. One source on Monday said North Korean authorities killed around 60 people in public executions so far this year, twice as many as in previous years since leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un came to power.
As international sanctions began to bite, the regime is increasingly resorting to forced mobilizations of people for public projects and extortion. The public executions serve to keep growing discontent in check.
Something about having an anti-aircraft gun pointed at your head will do that to you...
The families of defectors and brokers who helped North Koreans escape are being summarily executed.
According to sources, state security agency arrested dozens of family members of defectors and brokers in February and executed them on charges of espionage, while around a dozen brokers China were arrested and put in front of a firing squad in Hyesan, Ryanggang Province in April.
Also in Hyesan, many were killed by firing squad on charges of watching South Korean TV series and movies. In July, around a dozen drug users were executed in Wonsan, Kangwon Province and Unsan, North Pyongan Province.
A group of security agents have been organized by the Workers Party to crack down on people who have left their registered addresses without permission. The group was created in 2014 at the order of the corpulent leader Kim Jong-un and is mainly in charge of arresting illegitimate travelers and press-ganging them into grueling construction projects.
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One source on Monday said North Korean authorities killed around 60 people in public executions so far this year
Fat Boy is such a piker. Tis year alone, the pols in Chicago are on track to have almost 100 times that many killed and way more injured for life.
In the first six months of this year, foreign central banks sold a net $192 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds, more than double the pace in the same period last year, when they sold $83 billion.
China, Japan, France, Brazil and Colombia led the pack of countries dumping U.S. debt.
It's the largest selloff of U.S. debt since at least 1978, according to Treasury Department data.
"Net selling of U.S. notes and bonds year to date thru June is historic," says Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at the Lindsey Group, an investing firm in Virginia.
U.S. Treasurys are considered one of the safest assets in the world. A lot of countries keep their cash holdings in U.S. government bonds.
Many countries have been selling their holdings of U.S. Treasuries so they can get cash to help prop up their currencies if they're losing value. The selloff is a sign of pockets of weakness in the global economy. Low oil prices, China's economic slowdown and currencies losing value are all weighing down global growth, which the IMF described as "fragile" earlier in the year.
Despite all the selling by these countries, private demand for the bonds has sky rocketed. Demand is so high that the U.S. can afford to pay historically low interest rates. The 10-year U.S. Treasury hit a record low of 1.34% earlier this year, before bouncing back to about 1.58%, currently.
So it's okay, unless the furriners are on to something...
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Come right up and place your beats on the next American Civil War. We gotcha urban coasties and the people who actually make vital stuff like food and energy.
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Stocks and bonds are earning little for the individual investor despite stocks being at a record high. Institutional investors may be making money but the individual investor is not. It is especially hard on the older, retired investor depending on return on investments to live on. I blame Washington and Wall Street greed.
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BTW, stocks were at a record high just prior to the stock market collapse and the onset of the Great Depression. I don't know what kind of earnings they at the time [just before the Depression]--a little before my time but not by too much. Could be a Civil War but it would be more than likely the people in "fly-over land" pitted against the elites in Washington and their minions such as the MSM, Wall Street, globalists, etc.
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So it's okay, unless the furriners are on to something...
What they are "on to" is a need for cash to prop up their own flagging economies. Selling their bonds early means they need what they can get now as opposed to more later. Sounds like a problem for them, not the issuer of the bonds...
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The 3rd world buffoons are buying discounted US debt. They haven't yet tried to redeem any of it.
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Paris at war again? Oh you say a different enemy and a different time than the Nazi era. I say, not so different. Many of the Muslims were allied with Hitler. It's a supremacy thing. Much of today's problem is self-inflicted.
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If the U.S. is not careful, we will also experience similar self-inflicted problems. Hillary is wanting to open our doors to something like 65,000 Syrians/year.
George Soros's Open Society Institute viewed the 2015 Baltimore unrest following the death of Freddie Gray as opening a "unique opportunity" to create "accountability" for the Baltimore police while aiding activists in reforming the city, according to hacked documents reviewed by Breitbart Jerusalem.
The documents further confirm that the Open Society last year approved $650,000 to "invest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement."
The information was contained in a detailed 69-page Open Society report on the agenda of an Open Society U.S. Programs board meeting held in New York October 1 to October 2, 2015. Well, somebody had to pick up airfare, hotels, meals and incidentals for their trips to the White House.
[Breitbart] Donald Trump held a private meeting with the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President, Chris Crane, at his office in Trump Tower on Monday morning.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Crane discussed the details of his intimate meeting with the GOP nominee--revealing that the biggest takeaway from their exchange was Trump’s unwavering support for law enforcement. "It was extremely clear that this guy is on law enforcement’s side," said Crane, who represents approximately 7,000 ICE officers and staff responsible for enforcing America’s immigration laws.
"[Trump] made no bones about it--he wants the rule of law followed in our country, and he wants to make America safe," Crane added. "He made clear he’s on the side of law and order, and is on the side of the American public."
"This is not the person that you frequently see on TV," Crane said. "[Trump] was very welcoming, very sincere. He really wanted to hear from boots on the ground, officers out in the field about what’s happening."
Crane seemed struck by what Crane described as Trump’s "genuine concern" for the nation’s ICE officers, as well as Trump’s command of U.S. immigration policy. "There’s no two ways about it--he was definitely more informed on the issues than a lot of members of Congress that I’ve met with in my lifetime," Crane said.
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I would think that Trump is more astute in security than the Hildabeest. That would not be difficult. I sure hope that it's true.
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Trump’s "genuine concern", is obvious. Media attacks are having no impact. Look at his history. In some ways he reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt.I foresee great things ahead for America.
F*cking killjoys
LAHORE: The judicial magistrates at different courts on Monday handed down six-day imprisonment to 87 youngsters each arrested for doing a wheelie during the Independence Day celebrations.
The magistrates convicted the offenders holding summary trials and also ordered police to confiscate their motorcycles.
The Punjab prosecutor general had instructed police investigating officers and all deputy prosecutors to ensure convictions in the cases registered under Motor Vehicle Ordinance against the motorcyclists for doing a wheelie.
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In FLA, the first ticket for wheelies is $2K, the second is jail time and loss of bike. Thanks to the idiots at the other Daytona bike week.
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I've seen guys do this on Interstate 5 in San Diego. Not cool. If you do it on a closed track where you're the only one who can get hurt, OK. But if you do it in traffic where you could cause an accident in which other motorists get hurt you deserve a fine and/or jail time.
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That's why I have skid plates on the F-150, PBUH
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If you can't do wheelies on Independence Day, what's the point of even having a country?
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON -- In coming days, five test pilots here will begin conducting night trials with a new software load for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter helmet that they believe will spell the end to a troubling issue.
Adjustments that decrease the contrast of the Generation III helmet-mounted display should allow pilots of the F-35C to land on aircraft carriers without having their view obscured by the display's ambient light, said Tom Briggs, acting chief test engineer for the Navy.
The service tried out a different fix on its last round of carrier tests aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2015, but test pilots ultimately concluded they hadn't completely solved the issue.
"You could describe it as looking through a dirty window," Briggs said. "It's not so bad on a really bright night. On a dark night it skewers outside light references for pilots. A pilot cannot pick up the lights on the carrier as well as he'd like to, he doesn't necessarily pick up non-lighted signals on the ship as he's taxiing around, he has a harder time picking out aircraft that are flying around."
At $400,000 apiece, the F-35's helmet is as high-tech as the aircraft itself, with display features that let pilots "see" through the plane's skin and receive constantly updated information on the visor. The "green glow" problem with this visor display obscuring the field beyond it in dark conditions was first reported in 2012.
Briggs said two pilots had reported good results in an initial test with the new helmet update and officials were hopeful they have found the right solution. It's especially crucial that this round of fixes works because the Navy is beginning to conduct carrier qualifications for operational pilots as well as test pilots on the F-35C, and they won't be able to complete night qualifications until the problem is resolved.
Capt. James Christie, commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron-101, which had 12 pilot-instructors complete daytime carrier qualifications on the F-35C this week, said he hoped software updates would be approved and close to being retrofitted to all F-35 helmets by the end of the year.
Christie said the decreased contrast setting is likely to help all pilots who operate in especially dark environments, without aid from the 'cultural light' of nearby cities. But on carriers out in the middle of the ocean, it was crucial.
"I think we just kind of stomped our feet and said, "we need to have this to be safe around the ship,'" he said.
Briggs said nighttime helmet tests were expected to kick off Aug. 20, during the darkest phase of the moon.
"So we're going to go out on a really dark night and we're going to do our final evaluation on the green glow," he said. "And we think that that problem is solved."
The third and final round of carrier tests for the F-35C will continue until Aug. 23. The aircraft, which will be used by both the Navy and the Marine Corps for carrier operations, is expected to reach initial operational capability near the end of 2018.
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Perhaps the basic airframe of the F-35 is a good airplane, capable of doing everything they claim it can do.
Unfortunately the techies have loaded a good airframe up with a bunch of goobledegook software and avionics features that pilots don't need and only the REMFs want. Last I checked, the major hold up on the F-35 was that goshawful logistics software that monitored every nut bolt and screw on the poor beast and gave a running spit out of things to fix and parts to order...methinks the logistics package is the big boondoggle here.
The essence of a good weapons system is to keep it simple and easy to repair...how many MIT PhDs in computer science are going to be needed to do first echelon diagnostics on the software?
E! is reportedly snipping Caitlyn Jenner's reality show "I Am Cait" from its television lineup.
According to a statement from network executives, the decision to cancel the reality show about Jenner's life as a man who identifies as a woman was mutual.
"Caitlyn and E! have mutually decided not to move forward with another season at this time," the statement reads. "She [sic] will always remain a part of the E! family, and we look forward to continue following her [sic] journey as she [sic] appears on 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians.'"
The decision may have had something to do with the show's poor ratings, which had been dismal from the start. Despite an avalanche of positive media coverage surrounding the show's debut, the viewers just weren’t all that interested in watching a show about a man pretending to be a woman.
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.
In the first six months of this year, foreign central banks sold a net $192 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds, more than double the pace in the same period last year, when they sold $83 billion.
George Soros's Open Society Institute viewed the 2015 Baltimore unrest following the death of Freddie Gray as opening a "unique opportunity" to create "accountability" for the Baltimore police while aiding activists in reforming the city, according to hacked documents reviewed by Breitbart Jerusalem.
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON -- In coming days, five test pilots here will begin conducting night trials with a new software load for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter helmet that they believe will spell the end to a troubling issue.
E! is reportedly snipping Caitlyn Jenner's reality show "I Am Cait" from its television lineup.
