Young males have coined a term for particularly obnoxious type of female increasingly common today. The term is “thot” which, according to Urban Dictionary, is an acronym for “that ho over there.” That’s probably true, as most kids communicate via text message these days. Of course, it also sounds a lot like “twat” so that could be why it caught on with young males. Additionally, the term means a girl who is a slut, but carries on as if she is special. It’s the sort of thing that is said to bring someone down a few notches.
Anyway, the word thot does not exactly roll off the tongue, but it is useful shorthand for the type of young woman that has become too common in our mass media. This is the girl, who would have been standing next to a Ford at the auto show in another era, but is now put on television as a serious commentator or journalist. They get the job because of their looks, but somehow they think they are public intellectuals. This American Thinker post about Katherine Timpf is a good example of the phenomenon.
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This is the girl, who would have been standing next to a Ford at the auto show in another era, but is now put on television as a serious commentator or journalist. They get the job because of their looks, but somehow they think they are public intellectuals.
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Severian: Cute, semi-bright college girls are the 11th Plague. They have never, in their entire lives, heard the words “no” or “wrong.” The expression on one of these ladies’ faces when you ask her to *explain* how she arrived at the conclusion she so forcefully, confidently put forth. It’s like you asked your dog to solve a differential equation. And then the White Knights step up to the plate… yeah, my teaching evals are brutal, but it’s a kick.
I've had pretty good luck teaching the dog differential equations.
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I stopped watching broadcast tv news a long time ago. In large part because of talking heads, male and female, asking questions that merely demonstrated their ignorance.
Last Tuesday Rantburg presented a story out of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine about a shooting at a cafe over an unpaid bill. Originally the story from Russia recounted how six of those shot had pistols with them during the meet to discuss the bill, but carried the weapons without rounds in the chambers.
Yes, you read that right: a pump action rifle chambered in .44 Magnum.
The rifle was a modification of the M1 Carbine, a rifle with the gas piston removed and replaced by a pump action assembly. According to the link, only 1,000 of those rifles were ever made.
You gotta wonder how a Ukrainian lawyer and former war veteran in southeastern Ukraine got his hands on such a rare weapon. And why in a nation flooded with firearms and munitions he chose to have the Vulcan as his personal defense weapon.
But alas, it is now probably in the possession of the kops.
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McCain is what an 80s something old man is like when he knows he is at the end of his lifetime and is bitter about not accomplishing certain things and is jealous and very angry towards those who did.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. "Desiderata"
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Not one senate democrat pulled a 'courageous' bipartisan vote when Obamacare was jammed down americas throat yet it is the republicans always painted as partisan.
McCain, Roberts, Makowski are just a few Republicans truly able to stop Obamacare yet chose not to.
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In my life, Strom Thurmond, Bob Byrd, and Ted Kennedy won re-election long past their best-used dates.
Another one was Harry Reid. The only thing Harry Reid did that was decent was to step down and leave the nuclear option as a part of his legacy. However, the Pubs don't seem to quite know what to do with this gift.
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Keeping McCain out of the White House was Baraq Obama's number one accomplishment.
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Yes, but even more he embodies what is wrong with the Republican party.
This guy was our 2008 nominee for president. How the f*^k does that happen?
This guy keeps getting reelected as a Republican Senator from a red state. How the f*^k does that happen?
2008 was the first time in my life that I did not vote for the Republican presidential nominee. Today I am more proud of that decision than ever. We need to raise the bar. Just being "not as bad as the other guy" doesn't make you a Republican. At least, it shouldn't.
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This guy keeps getting reelected as a Republican Senator from a red state. How the f*^k does that happen?
McCain has a formidable political machine and he is a determined and ruthless campaigner.
McCain is also working (and has a lot of pull) with the AZ GOP(e). Since Governor Ducey and rest of the Party wanted the Medicaid bucks to keep flowing, McCain accommodated them.
2008 was the first time in my life that I did not vote for the Republican presidential nominee. Today I am more proud of that decision than ever.
Your tax dollars at work: The Palestinian Authority is now using half of its foreign aid to reward terrorism. guess they have too much aid
The new PA budget boosts support to terrorists in prison by 13 percent and aid for the families of those killed "in the struggle against Zion" 4 percent, reports the Institute for Contemporary Affairs.
The total, $344 million, equals 49.6 percent of all foreign aid to the PA. In other words, cash from Uncle Sam, Europe and even Israel is subsidizing "welfare for terrorists."The PA sends a salary to each Palestinian imprisoned for an attack on Israelis, hitting over $3,000 a month after 30 years. Other stipends go to families of "martyrs" killed in the act. That's $344 million for 2017 that's not going to build roads or hospitals.
Knowing that you or your family will be taken care of is a clear incentive to kill. That's why President Trump is threatening to end US aid if the PA doesn't quit it. End it. NAOW
The PA budget is a clear "no" to Trump's demand. Ball's in your court, Mr. President.
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[PJMedia] Not the supposed protectionist Donald Trump, but the "free trade" wing of the Republican Party has taken the United States into a trade war that it can only lose. New sanctions against Russia passed by the House and Senate last week force Europe into a de facto alliance with Russia against the United States, and by extension with China as well.
It is the dumbest and most self-destructive act of economic self-harm since the United States de-linked the dollar from gold on August 15, 1971, and it will have devastating consequences. The charade in the House and Senate may embarrass Trump, but it also poses a threat to European energy supplies as well as an extraterritorial intrusion into European governance. Berlin, Paris and Rome will conspire with Moscow to circumvent the sanctions while attacking the United States at the World Trade Organization and other international fora.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), and their counterparts in the House of Representatives allowed their dudgeon
...such a wonderful word!
against a sometimes provocative president to overwhelm their sense of self-preservation. The sanctions will hurt Russia, but not nearly as much as they will hurt the United States over the long term.
The White House envisioned sanctions as a bargaining chip, to be used to persuade Moscow to behave in the Ukraine and to limit the ambitions of its Iranian ally of convenience. In their present form, however, the president will have no authority to remove sanctions imposed by Congress. That turns a feint into a threat. Wars have been started over less.
...Supposedly it was Trump who ignored the exigencies of international relations in favor of domestic political theater. Yet it is the Establishment wing of the Republican Party and its Democratic allies who combined to embarrass the president, without a moment’s consideration of the consequences of their actions. Among Washington’s elite, Trump Derangement Syndrome has nothing to do with ideology. It is about jobs and patronage. This is not hypocrisy. It is chutzpah. L'Etat c'est moi
Or nous, in this case.
Trump humiliated the Democrats and the Establishment rump of the Republican Party last November. The losers now face the prospect of permanent exile from political life. Writing in the Times Literary Supplement July 25, historian Edward Luttwak predicted a Trump dynasty lasting sixteen years, in which Ivanka Trump Kushner would succeed her father. "No wonder that leading Democrats and non-Trumpers continue to act hysterically even eight months after the election. President Trump’s plan threatens to exclude them all from office until long past their retirement age," Luttwak wrote. The hopes of high office of the defeated Establishment can be realized only by stifling the Trump administration in its cradle.
...The notion that Russian machinations explain Trump’s electoral victory is fanciful, although Russia’s intelligence services no doubt sought targets of opportunity in the American electoral scramble. McCain’s outrage over the violation of America’s political virginity, though, rings rather hollow.
Some of his friends, for example National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman, publicly advocate regime change in Moscow, a topic that has been a matter of on-and-off public debate in Washington for years. A 2016 Defense Intelligence Agency document reported that Russia believes that the United States favors regime change. The U.S. supported the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, which threatened Russia’s access to its Crimean warm-water port. America’s capacity to influence political events in and around Russia is vastly greater than Russia’s [to affect USA]
...After the fall of Communism, the dominant strain of American thinking held that the march of liberal democracy was unstoppable, and that it would transform the Muslim world as well as Moscow.
...No-one who had first-hand experience with Russia’s brief experience with democracy was surprised at Vladimir Putin’s subsequent popularity. The oligarchs continued to steal, but in a measured and organized fashion that allows ordinary life to proceed without catastrophic disruption. Putin rules Russia by means I sometimes find abhorrent, but his is a land where people don't talk of Ivan the Reasonable.
An ideological residue of the utopian attitudes of the 1990s colors the Republican Establishment’s attitude towards Trump, but it does not really inform them. This is not about the U.S. elections, or Putin's nastiness, or freedom and democracy. It's about privilege and the pecking order in the Washington swamp. McCain and Schumer want to destroy Trump because a successful Trump administration would destroy them, and destroy the reputation of an entire generation of diplomats, intelligence officers, academics and military officers who achieved rank by promoting the export of democracy, nation building, counterinsurgency, and so forth.
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The irony is, McCain's current situation shows the problem with term limits. He no longer has any need to behave at all. He may in fact now be glad to set up a situation where the rest of us die along with him.
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McCain's Russophobia has become tiresome. The Soviet mania for world conquest was an existential threat. Russian Empire building is annoying, particularly when their "diabolical schemes" go bust in the manner that such plans normally do. (*Cough* CIA meddling *Cough*)
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.
Your tax dollars at work: The Palestinian Authority is now using half of its foreign aid to reward terrorism.
