#4
A beauty, for sure.
Geeesh, the libtards just keep on trotting out the dolts and morons. Oh, and someone give her a link about OJ Simpson's murder trial.
[Breitbart] An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked exclusively to Breitbart News argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the "American tradition" of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.
Despite leaked video footage showing top executives declaring their intention to ensure that the rise of Trump and the populist movement is just a "blip" in history, Google has repeatedly denied that the political bias of its employees filter into its products.
But the 85-page briefing, titled "The Good Censor," admits that Google and other tech platforms now "control the majority of online conversations" and have undertaken a "shift towards censorship" in response to unwelcome political events around the world.
Examples cited in the document include the 2016 election and the rise of Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in Germany.
#5
I never took Instapundit seriously when he mentioned breaking up Google and Facebook. It always seems to be snark, but now, well it may be a good idea after all.
#10
And on a final techno-conspiracy note...
In conjunction with Google Barging in Safe Harbors we find that EU privacy laws were enacted that allowed offshore transfer of personal data. These were then rescinded correspondent with the decommissioning of Google's barges.
#1
Kunstler is one Liberal worth reading. And he has his hands on a pulse. So, I have him and everything he writes on my feed. He does make you do a double take sometime. Excellent sorting of Logic.
#2
I believe USA, like every other country in the world, has it share of crazies. And these crazies been running free for decades - breaking things, while the rest of you been picking the pieces and fixing the broken, and treating their madness as holy.
#3
The looting classes only look crazy if you expect them to be doing what they are paid to do.
If you see them as establishment protection agencies then life becomes simpler.
[Daily Caller] Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday took aim at the rhetoric employed by Sen. Cory Booker and others, accusing them of "ratcheting up the conversation" to the point where "unstable" people could commit violence.
"I fear that there’s going to be an assassination," Paul told Kentucky radio host Leland Conway. "I really worry that someone is going to be killed and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation, those who are saying ’get in their face’ ‐ they have to realize that they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence."
"These are people that are unstable," Paul said. "We don’t want to encourage them. We have to somehow ratchet it down and say we’re not encouraging them that violence is ever OK or ever a reason or a means to try to resolve things." (RELATED: Antifa Protesters Block Portland Traffic, Nearly Start Riot During Patrick Kimmons Vigil)
Directly calling out Booker, who last July told activists to "get up in the face of some congresspeople," Paul referenced both his own assault at the hands of a neighbor as well as last year’s baseball field shooting in which Rep. Steve Scalise was wounded to show that "unstable" people can easily take things too far.
"I think what people need to realize is when people like Cory Booker say ’get up in their face’ ‐ he may think that that’s OK, but what he doesn’t realize is that for about every 1,000 people who might want to get up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence," said Paul.
The Kentucky senator also pointed out the "double standard" when it comes to left and right wing violence.
"If it’s an accusation with no substantiation it’s utterly to be believed," he said, referencing the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh. "In my case it wasn’t an accusation. I actually was assaulted ... and yet the media discounted that completely because they don’t like my politics. So this just shows it’s just about politics. It really isn’t about concern or people wanting to lesson violence."
#6
Look at the game with Kav. Their strategy is - if I can't have it, no one can. Scorched earth. They'll shut down a very intricate system in the economy when travel is shut down during the booms and bangs. All the kings horses and all the kings men can't put Humpty back together again.
#9
...there is always a cadre of true believers. It's not going to be as easy as some here believe because of so many who want 'restraint'. It's not going to be successful as those on the Left think its going to be because those on the other side now know there can only be one left standing. As usual, there will be a lot of collateral damage among those who'd rather just be left alone. It will drag out. There will be no decisive battle.
#12
Brown shirts probably weren't very good at violence but they were good enough to intimidate the majority of unarmed civilians.
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#13
As long as the borders remain open, there are plenty to fill their ranks. See the insurgency in Iraq, ISS, et al. The Brown Shirts included a lot of experienced fighters, not just your usual street thugs. One thing they won't lack is funding, till the usual suspects and their purse are shut down. Meanwhile, other governments may well find it convenient to dabble in an American insurgency.
#15
Neh, I know these people - I spent most of my adult life in academia/educational system - they're not Bolsheviks, they're careerists. Most have zilch moral or physical courage.
#16
^^^ They have foot soldiers that are capable of fighting, in packs. I doubt they would fare well against an angry determined opponent. As previously noted, find the money people and organizers and stuff them in a barrel.
[The Federalist] There is an endless buzz around Kanye West’s conversion to MAGA hats, free speech, and meetings with President Trump in the White House. Thankfully, the hosts of ABC’s "The View," who are apparently also practicing psychiatrists, were able to diagnose West’s political interests as a mental illness and "attention grab."
Their conversation on Tuesday’s show quickly diverted from the topics West intends to discuss with the president (manufacturing, prison reform, gang violence, to name a few) to discussing how West suffers from mental illness, bipolar disorder, and a family who can’t convince him he has a problem.
"If you have a family member that suffers from mental illness... you have to get inside their head, which is an impossible task, and convince them that there is a big enough problem that they need to get help, and they’re not willing to do that," host Abby Huntsman said. "If you’re Kim Kardashian, you feel for her in this moment."
Guest host Yvette Nicole Brown acknowledged that she does not know when West has been on or off his medicine, yet proceeded to explain how his meeting with the president is strictly for the attention. "This is not even about the policies at this point. He just wants the attention. It’s an attention-grab at this point and I don’t know who around him ‐ his handlers, his wife ‐ can get to him," she said.
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#2
A form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing disjointed, repetitious, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that lack realistic or logical development.
#5
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Megan McCain...these women are dangerous. They lie, they twist, they spin, they tell half truths and distortions every day. The really scary part is that they have an audience.
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[National Review] When the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions.
The Left
The hearing confirmed that the traditional JFK/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned by a Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, or Jim Webb, is long kaput. In its place is being birthed a hard-left progressive movement that absorbs the ideologies and methodologies of its base and that now incorporates all sorts, from Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist hipsters to Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street protestors.
The new progressives recently have come to believe that they gain traction by the theater of disrupting senate hearings, cornering senators in elevators, stalking them on the way to work, doxing their opponents on the Internet, and during the hearings throwing out the concept of due process. Any means is deemed permissible to enact visions of social justice, given legislative and executive power is lost for now ‐ and as if proverbially ordinary Americans who watched the televised circus might applaud the performers.
[BBC] When her daughter was preschool-aged, Rebecca Spencer experienced something familiar to many parents and childminders: the power of a nap. Without it, her daughter would be giddy, grumpy, or both.
Spencer, a neuroscientist focusing on sleep at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, wanted to investigate the science behind this anecdotal experience. "The observation of a lot of people is that a napless kid is emotionally dysregulated," she says. "So that spurred us to ask this question of, ’Do naps actually do something to process emotions?’"
Research has already shown that, in general, sleep helps us make sense of emotions. Sleep plays a key role in encoding information based on experiences from the day, making sleep critical for preserving memories. And emotional memories are unique because of the way they activate the amygdala, the brain’s emotional core.
"Amygdala activation is what allows your wedding day and the funeral of your parents to be a day better remembered, more than just any other day of work," Spencer says.
h/t Instapundit
False accusations ruin lives and bring indescribable heartache. We hear a lot about rape and sexual assault victims, but rarely do we hear of the injustices and pain endured by those falsely accused of such crimes, the silent sufferers of cruelty and malice.
The confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have brought into focus a great divide in this country between those who choose to believe any allegation a woman makes and those who value presumption of innocence when a man is accused of rape. Many of us aren’t willing to discard due process simply because feminists demand it ‐ we have experienced firsthand the devastation that follows in the wake of false accusations, particularly regarding rape, sexual assault, and molestation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] An internal company briefing produced by Google and leaked exclusively to Breitbart News argues that due to a variety of factors, including the election of President Trump, the "American tradition" of free speech on the internet is no longer viable.
[The Federalist] There is an endless buzz around Kanye West’s conversion to MAGA hats, free speech, and meetings with President Trump in the White House. Thankfully, the hosts of ABC’s "The View," who are apparently also practicing psychiatrists, were able to diagnose West’s political interests as a mental illness and "attention grab."
