A Democratic politician in Massachusetts wants to remove a sign at the State House honoring General Joseph Hooker because she believes the sign is "offensive" to women.
State Representative Michelle DuBois says it is time to get rid of the "General Hooker Entrance" at the Massachusetts State House because she believes the sign is a "double entendre" posing as respect for a Civil War hero.
The sign is allegedly an assault on "women’s dignity" because the general’s name happens to double as an insulting word about female hookers.
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People is still one of my favorite books...
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Don't they have something better to do in Massachusetts? Maybe a special counsel should be appointed to look into this. Better yet, use the one we have in D.C.--we just need to claim the Russians were involved.
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Always liked the situation where the general said to the female reporter, "Well, you are equipped to be a prostitute, but whether you are or not is up to you..."
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If it'll take the focus from California for a few minutes I'm good with it.
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#10
Given the amount of corruption that goes on through those doors, the name is far more fitting.
[IJR] A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data ‐ more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do ‐ because they were supportive of the campaign.
In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidson, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, said the 2012 campaign led Facebook to "suck out the whole social graph" and target potential voters. They would then use that data to do things like append their email lists.
When Facebook found out what they were doing, they were "surprised," she said. But she also claimed they didn’t stop them once they found out:
"They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side," Davidson tweeted.
She added that she believes Facebook also recruits people "on the other side" too:
Davidsen began the tweet thread with a link to a Time article outlining the Obama campaign's Facebook targeting campaign, which she said was codenamed "Project Taargus":
That’s because the more than 1 million Obama backers who signed up for the [Facebook-based app] gave the campaign permission to look at their Facebook friend lists. In an instant, the campaign had a way to see the hidden young voters. Roughly 85% of those without a listed phone number could be found in the uploaded friend lists. What’s more, Facebook offered an ideal way to reach them. "People don’t trust campaigns. They don’t even trust media organizations," says Goff. "Who do they trust? Their friends."
The campaign called this effort targeted sharing. And in those final weeks of the campaign, the team blitzed the supporters who had signed up for the app with requests to share specific online content with specific friends simply by clicking a button. More than 600,000 supporters followed through with more than 5 million contacts, asking their friends to register to vote, give money, vote or look at a video designed to change their mind. A geek squad in Chicago created models from vast data sets to find the best approaches for each potential voter. "We are not just sending you a banner ad," explains Dan Wagner, the Obama campaign’s 29-year-old head of analytics, who helped oversee the project. "We are giving you relevant information from your friends."
Facebook did not immediately respond to IJR's request for comment. IJR has also reached out to Davidsen as well as current and former Mitt Romney campaign officials for comment. I'll bet they didn't.
> Share on Facebook < Heh. A little FB humor there, I guess.
#2
The Obama cwmoaign boasted in 2008 as well as in 2012 that they had help from Progressive-led internet companies like Facebook in finding and targetting various groups of potential voters, claiming that was why their turnout was so high.
Nice to see it being confirmed by those who contributed. Incidentally, oughtn’t that count as “in kind” political contributions, which very likely exceeded legal contribution limits? It would be interesting to see the IRS get involved, if so...
#6
My business related interactions with today's generation of IT people is they are sub-par in everything. They are 180 degrees different from the pioneers of the Information Technology revolution. Poor judgment, lazy, say what you want to hear then do nothing, full of excuses why they can't accomplish anything worthwhile and conniving. Pretty much sums up our younger generation in total.
[NYPost] A Democratic congressman from Long Island implied that Americans should grab weapons and oppose President Trump by force, if the commander-in-chief doesn’t follow the Constitution.
Rep. Tom Suozzi made the remark to constituents at a town hall last week, saying that folks opposed to Trump might resort to the “Second Amendment.”
#1
Well, congressman, THAT is the purpose of the Second Amendment.
Of course, we have to know that the POTUS is not doing that...and if the media runs cover for the POTUS, like they did for the previous administration, you won't know the POTUS is not following the constitution until the next one arrives...if there is a next one.
h/t Instapundit
A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather.
D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) posted the video to his official Facebook page at 7:21 a.m. as snow flurries were hitting the nation’s capital. The video, shot through the windshield of a car driving west on Interstate 695 through downtown Washington, shows snowy skies while White narrates.
"Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation," he says. "And D.C. keep talking about, ’We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful."
#7
Tray-on, Tray-off new product from Blammo Corp. You lay your head down when having to listen to room temp IQ ramblings. He's just 1 "v" short looking like one of Champs sons.
#10
One of the great thing about the interwebs is it gives you insight into just how many stupid people there are and to the depths of their moronitude (yes, that's a word).
But suppose this guy is on to something. I've long suspected this Islam thing is actually a plot by the Juice to keep the Arabs backwards and stupid. It seems to be working since I can't think of a single productive thing that has come out of the Arab world in the last millennium or so.
Now suppose that the weather *is* being controlled by the Juice using a vast system of underground machines. This explains why they are so diligent about destroying the tunnels being dug towards Israel by the Mole People Paleostinians lest their secret be discovered.
The existence of these weather modifying machines also explains why our most advanced climate models are not worth the electricity to boot up the computers they run on. It's all starting to make sense. (man, I love conspiracy theories!)
[Townhall] If anyone ever truly deserved a Profiles in Courage Award, it was the late Leo Damore, the author of this book.
Of course, the awards are handed out by the Kennedy family, and they are all about, not courage, but Political Correctness. But no one can dispute the fact that Damore put himself and his career on the line to write this book, and that one way or another, he paid the ultimate price‐as a suicide, in 1995, at the age of 65.
Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up was a New York Times best seller in 1988. It sold more than a million copies. Damore’s volume established a previously obscure publishing house, Regnery, as a major force in the book trade. Its success also disproved what New York publishers had long believed, or perhaps just hoped, that there was no real market out there for books that spoke, really spoke, truth to liberal power.
If you are just now discovering Senatorial Privilege, you may not be aware of the controversy that surrounded its initial publication. Damore seemed a most unlikely person to blow the lid off the Chappaquiddick cover up. Born in Ontario, he was a reporter for the Cape Cod Times. His first book, in 1967, had been a standard post-JFK assassination hagiography, The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
#5
At the time, a huge DC rumor was that the delay in going back to the scene, goin notifying the police, was caused by two key factors, one that Teddy was very drunk, and secondly, that he didn't know that Mary Jo was in the car, in the back seat, passed out. Yo see, he was taking the route to the beach to have sex with the OTHER girl that was in the car, and when he went off the bridge, they both got out, and she was quickly spirited away and paid off. Mary Jo had gotten into the back seat of Teddy's car merely to sleep it off so the rumor went.
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.
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[IJR] A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data ‐ more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do ‐ because they were supportive of the campaign.
