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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Leftists Celebrate The Death Of Eric Bolling's Son
[Daily Caller] Eric Chase Bolling, the son of former Fox News anchor Eric Bolling, died on Saturday. His passing is being celebrated by leftists on Twitter to mock his father, who lost his job on the cable news network following allegations of sexual harassment.

TMZ reported that Bolling Jr., who was 19, died from a drug overdose. Numerous leftists on Twitter called his death a fitting punishment for his father’s alleged actions.

"I knew [Eric Bolling] was a POS, but it is incredibly rare to see karma deliver such harsh justice," wrote @Donnie2Scoop. "The teen son deserved better."

Dozens of other progressives mocked Bolling for his son’s death, also calling it karma. Many gloated over the tragedy, sharing GIFs and images to express their joy at his suffering.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 03:34 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jesus. Karma? Really? For maybe making passes at women?
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2017 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Just another example of how many on the Left are truly sick and vile.
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2017 5:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The Left has absolutely no class.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/11/2017 6:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Their depravity should not come as a shock. The destruction of any conservative is cause for celebration among liberals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 6:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea's Threat Might Be Worse Than We Think
[AmericanThinker]. If the U.S. pre-emptively attacks North Korea, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and other places in Asia might get blasted in retaliation, but America will have knocked out North Korea's nuclear capability. Right?

Wrong ‐ at least in the opinion of a U.S. senior intelligence consultant who worked on a secret study of North Korea's nuclear program for the government and disagrees with widespread intelligence opinion, echoed by the press, that there are no viable options for dealing with North Korea's nuclear threat except negotiations.

Dwight R. Rider, 30 years a targeting specialist for the U.S. with a master's degree from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), says the reason the U.S. intelligence community (I.C.) says negotiation is the only option is that the I.C. rejected the study his group made that identified hidden nuclear facilities and weapons in North Korea and now realizes they don't know where to target. Thus, in their minds, any pre-emptive attack might have only minimal effect on North Korea's capability and leave the rogue state with plenty of retaliation options.

Rider is so worried about the U.S. making wrong decisions regarding what to do about the North Korean threat that he's decided to go public, including writing a letter to President Trump and other officials he thinks might be able to influence Trump's actions.

"It is unlikely that long-standing issues between North Korea and the U.S. can be resolved through negotiation," Rider writes in the letter to the president. "Any effort to force North Korea" to bow to outside pressure "means regime change." That's not acceptable to North Korea, he says. Therefore, "some level of force may be necessary."

The problem is, he charges, that U.S. targeters don't have good information, and any strike deemed necessary might thus be impotent, inviting retaliation.

The only reason I'm privy to this is that Rider is a source for me in updating an early book of mine, Japan's Secret War, about Japan trying to make an atomic bomb in North Korea during World War II. As an expert in North Korean topography and nuclear signatures, he believes, as I do, that North Korea's nuclear program grew out of what the Japanese, who occupied the peninsula during the war, left there after the surrender. In my updating, we've become friends, and he's voiced the targeting problem more than once. With the current threat escalation and his fear that U.S. planners have bad information, Rider decided to try to correct the situation.

"I believe North Korea's uranium enrichment program long predates it's rather recent interest in plutonium and other nuclear weapons. I believe North Korea has far more capabilities than our intelligence community believes."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Handwringing.
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2017 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently the Klingons had other priorities.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/11/2017 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Decapitate their gov't and then worry about the hardware, tell the Chinese to go clean it up.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/11/2017 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Asteroid...
Posted by: 3dc || 09/11/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  "Any effort to force North Korea" to bow to outside pressure "means regime change." That's not acceptable to North Korea,

I'd say 99% of Norks would be delighted by regime change.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/11/2017 19:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Bannon on 60 Minutes: I Hold Bush Admin ‘Geniuses' in ‘Complete Contempt'
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon blasted the "geniuses" in former President George W. Bush’s administration for selling out American workers and getting the country stuck in the Middle East in a 60 Minutes interview with CBS anchor Charlie Rose.

Bannon took offense at establishment Republicans associated with the Bush administration who went out of their way to question President Donald Trump’s competence during the 2016 campaign even though nearly all of their "genius" ideas‐like Paul Wolfowitz’s brand of nation-building and neoconservatism‐turned out to be disastrous.

"I hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt," Bannon told Rose, adding that the former Bush administration officials get him riled up with anger like nothing else. "They’re idiots, and they’ve gotten us in this situation, and they question a good man like Donald Trump."

Bannon blasted "the geniuses in the Bush administration that let China in the W.T.O.," and reminded Rose that the "genius in the Bush administration told us, ’Hey, they’re going to be a liberal democracy. They’re going to be free-market capitalism.’ The same geniuses that got us into Iraq."

Bannon also denounced George W. Bush and "his entire national security apparatus," which included people like Condi Rice, Brent Scowcroft, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney.

Consistent with the disdain he has always had for the bipartisan permanent political class in Washington’s "Boomtown," Bannon also blasted "the Obama crowd," which he said was "almost the same."

"Clinton crowd, almost the same," he continued. "It’s three administrations."

The Breitbart News executive chairman clashed in the White House with national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who represented the foreign policy views of the Bush foreign policy establishment. Bannon’s absence in the White House was almost immediately felt when Trump’s first speech without Bannon as his chief strategist, which was about increasing America’s involvement in Afghanistan, was heralded as a "classic neocon speech," with some fanboys even saying that neocon Paul Wolfowitz is now president.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 03:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Geniuses? He forgot the sarc tag.
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2017 4:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Remembering 9/11: Rick Rescorla, a Singing Hero (Prescient Video)
[Victory Girls] Every culture tells the stories of its heroes. There are multiple reasons for telling the stories of heroes. As long as we tell the story and say the name of the hero, he still lives. Telling the story of the hero inspires each successive generation to heroism. Rick Rescorla was a hero on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York City. His story must be told and the name of Rick Rescorla must be said aloud to keep him alive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 06:35 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Birth Control and Homosexuality: Unintended Consequences
BLUF:
[American Thinker] There is a body of evidence that early hormonal manipulation can have horrific consequences.

We have to ask ourselves, what happens to all those women using hormonal contraceptives when they stop their pills in anticipation of wanted pregnancy. Does the normal human cycle return immediately, or is there a rebound effect where, even if ovulation occurs, the ambient hormonal background in the womb is screwed up? This article addressed the question of whether gonadal steroid exposure during prenatal development is one of the factors, in at least one of the pathways, that lead to variability in sexual orientation outcomes. Based on the compelling evidence that prenatal testosterone exposure influences children’s sex-typical play behavior, on the well-established links between childhood play interests and adult sexual orientation, and on the evidence showing altered sexual orientation in women exposed to high levels of androgens prenatally, because of CAH, the answer appears to be "yes." - National Institutes of Health
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 03:59 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nature's method of culling the non-productive? Who then, will become the new inhabitants? In light of the recent migrations in Europe, and the debates on immigration here in the States, a rather rhetorical albeit sobering question I suppose.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 4:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Hmm.
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2017 4:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Should I conclude that Classical Athens had the pill?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2017 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4  I still think genetics is the major player here. Although I admit Oral Birth Control has its benefits
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 09/11/2017 5:54 Comments || Top||

#5  'Sexual orientation' is nature's way of promoting the reproductive success of first born sons and decreasing sibling reproductive rivalry. It's perhaps not surprising that hormonal birth control promotes this phenomena.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/11/2017 6:00 Comments || Top||

#6  'Sexual orientation' is nature's way of promoting the reproductive success of first born sons and decreasing sibling reproductive rivalry.

See
Whitehead, N. E. (2007). An antiboy antibody? Re-examination of the maternal immune hypothesis. Journal of Biosocial Science, 39(6), 905-921.‏
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2017 6:25 Comments || Top||

#7  TLDR; unrestrained use of technology and government by hypergamic women who will do ANYTHING to avoid negative consequences of an unplanned pregnancy is taking down Western civilization.
Posted by: no mo uro || 09/11/2017 6:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Muslim families are big. They have no interest in small families. It has been my experience anyway.
Posted by: Dale || 09/11/2017 7:48 Comments || Top||

#9  It is an an interesting question. Epigenetics and adaptation to short term evolutionary stresses... such as starvation during famines. It seems that we (scientists) really know less than we (scientists) thought we knew.
Posted by: magpie || 09/11/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||


Edima, MN Public School: Embracing Ancestry, Genetic Code, and Melanin
[Powerline] Edina is a wealthy suburb of Minneapolis that at one time had one of the finest public school systems in the United States. As I have documented here, here, here and here, the Edina schools decided some years ago to prioritize left-wing indoctrination over academic excellence. The result has been a decline in academic performance, and a pervasive atmosphere of oppression and bullying directed against non-conforming students and parents.

A blockbuster story on the Edina schools will soon be coming out. In the meantime, consider this beginning-of-school-year email from the principal of Edina’s Highlands Elementary School:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2017 03:53 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Beware of admin. drones with Thesauruses. Sheesh.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/11/2017 20:05 Comments || Top||



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