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-Short Attention Span Theater-
What a circus! Baraboo WI High School Students Appear to Perform Nazi Salute
[Breitbart] A Wisconsin school district is investigating an incident involving students from Baraboo High School, who appear to be giving the Nazi salute in a pre-prom photo shoot.

Scores of high school students appear to be giving the Nazi salute in a photo that was reportedly taken before attending their Junior Prom dance last spring.

The Twitter account @GoBaraboo posted the image, accompanied with the words: "We even got the black kid to throw it up #barabooproud."

The tweet, which has since been deleted, was captured via screenshot and re-shared on Twitter, causing the image to go viral.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 08:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Last of the Heiligenbeil Pocket? The young lad (front row, 4th from extreme right, blue suit with growth trousers) appears slightly reluctant.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The results of:
1. Lousy education; and
2. Trivializing everyone you don't like as a "Nazi."

Like the "Circus" thing, tho.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/14/2018 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Baraboo was the northern home of the Ringling Brothers circus, splitting residence with Florida.
Posted by: Eohippus Dribble5682 || 11/14/2018 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  The photographer said they were waving and giving high fives, at his request.

While the optics on this ain't good, people really need to calm the fuck down about things.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/14/2018 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  So true, DV.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/14/2018 10:52 Comments || Top||

#6  High school kids do a lot of dumb things. It could be they are just waving. They could be put in suspended animation for their teen years--it would probably be less stressful for the parents.

Who thought having 16-17 year-olds voting was a good idea. Oh yeah, it was most likely the Dems trying to expand their base.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2018 11:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I know it sounds primitive, but 'voting' should be limited to property owners, soldiers, and tax payers....people with some skin in the game.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 11:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Lesson learned, always do a pathetic Queen of England wave. If doing a high five add the Aloha or Devil Horn hand gestures. Either way you are semi-protected from idiots claiming you were making a Nazi salute (of course cultural appropriation claims for the Aloha are likely).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Perhaps just the middle finger would be more appropriate.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/14/2018 18:43 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Social Media Linked To Loneliness And Depression, New Study Finds
[Zero Hedge] Social media use has once again been linked to loneliness and depression. Research has been hinting at the connection for several years, but scientists from the University of Pennsylvania say that this new study is the most comprehensive and rigorous to date.

Social media is not all bad, as not much really is, but most people tend to have a difficult time using their social media accounts in moderation. That, according to the new study, can leave a person’s mental state a little lacking. There are even therapies and rehabilitation for those who have an addiction to social media.

Ever since sites like Facebook and Instagram became part of daily life, scientists have wondered whether or not they could contribute to mental health problems. In fact, research has hinted at a connection between social media use and depression for several years, according to This Insider. We have reached a point where people have a hard time tearing away from their social media accounts.

Published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, the most recent study linking poor mental health conditions to social media use has added even more evidence to back up the theory. The researchers from the University of Pennsylvania intentionally designed their experiment to be more comprehensive than previous studies on the topic. Rather than relying on short-term lab data or self-reported questionnaires, they recruited 143 undergraduate students to share screenshots of their Phone battery screens over a week to collect data on how much they were using social media apps including Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram.

According to an in-depth report on the study done by This Insider, subjects of the study were told either to maintain their typical social media behavior or limit it to 10 minutes per day. Alongside the screenshot data, the researchers also looked at how much the participants experienced fear of missing out, anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 00:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A piece of plastic is not a hunting or gathering group. Unplug 10,000+ years of evolution and check the results.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2018 6:29 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Filmmaker Horowitz Embedded Himself In The Migrant Caravan
[Daily Caller] A filmmaker embedded himself in the migrant caravan heading to the southern border and discussed what he found on Tuesday night with Tucker Carlson.

Ami Horowitz went to the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca to film the caravan.

"What we do know is this thing cost millions and millions of dollars. The mainstream media, and there are so many layers [of] onions to peel back, it’s hard to know where to begin. One of the lies the fake news if you will, media is trying to propagate is the fact that all this weird organic thing and all the water and the food and medicine, all dropped from ... manna from heaven. It’s bologna. It’s all highly organized. It’s paid for by a number of organizations, we don’t know exactly where the money is coming from."

"Why haven’t other news organizations gotten to the bottom of this? You’re one man, you’re doing this independently. Why isn’t NBC News or ABC or PBS, why aren’t they on this?" Carlson asked.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 00:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s all highly organized. It’s paid for by a number of organizations, we don’t know exactly where the money is coming from."

You may not know where the "money is coming from" but the Federal Government's Financial Crimes Enforcement officials certainly do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  we don’t know exactly where the money is coming from."

That is easy. Ask yourself, who in this country would benefit from such an investment into an invasion from the third world?
Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 || 11/14/2018 4:33 Comments || Top||

#3  it is actually difficult to figure out the financing

a contribution from a US citizen goes to a USA 'charitable' org that then donates to a different USA org that then donates to an off shore org which hires a contractor to do 'stuff'
Posted by: lord garth || 11/14/2018 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  a contribution from a US citizen goes to a USA 'charitable' org that then donates to a different USA org that then donates to an off shore org which hires a contractor to do 'stuff'

Gosh, Uncle LG, that sounds like money laundering.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/14/2018 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  steve

yes in a sense it is money laundering and its legal unless a person in the front of the chain knows that the funds will be used in the back of the chain for a crime (in which case it would be racketeering)

money laundering in the criminal sense is using funds obtained illegally to buy legal products or services and then subsequently sell those products and services to obtain 'clean' funds
Posted by: lord garth || 11/14/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Where are the money and organization coming from?

Does anyone want to offer up odds on Soros?
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 || 11/14/2018 17:15 Comments || Top||

#7  The transport part of the picture, at least, is easily explained. Bus travel in socialist Mexico is free, efficient, and fun!

Posted by: Shuse tse Tung7716 || 11/14/2018 17:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Victor Davis Hanson: The Present American Revolution
[NR] Destroying the Constitution and seeking state-mandated equality of result.

The revolution of 1776 sought to turn a colony of Great Britain into a new independent republic based on constitutionally protected freedom. It succeeded with the creation of the United States.

The failed revolution of 1861, by a slave-owning South declaring its independence from the Union, sought to bifurcate the country, More than 600,000 dead later, slavery was abolished, a Confederacy was in in ruins, and the South was forced back into the United States largely on the conditions and terms of the victorious North.

The 1960s saw efforts to create a new progressive nation by swarming democratic and republican institutions. The sheer force of a left-wing cultural revolution would supposedly transform a nation, in everything from jeans, long hair, and pot to rock music and sexual "liberation." It was eventually diffused by popular weariness with the extremism and violence of the radical revolutionaries, and the establishment’s agreements to end the Vietnam War, give 18-year-olds the right to vote, phase out the draft, expand civil rights to include reparatory action, legalize abortion, radicalize the university, and vastly increase the administrative state to wage a war on poverty, a war on pollution, and a war on inequality.

Our present revolution is more multifaceted. It is a war on the very Constitution of the United States that has not yet brought the Left its Holy Grail: a state-mandated equality of result overseen by an omnipotent and omniscient elite. The problem for today’s leftists is that they are not fighting Bourbon France, a reactionary Europe of 1848, or Czarist Russia, but an affluent, culturally uninhibited, and wildly free United States, where never in the history of civilization has a people attained such affluence and leisure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 01:19 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Facebook Unveils New Bigot Recognition Technology
[Babylon Bee] MENLO PARK, CA‐In a move to better filter out unapproved positions and people, Facebook unveiled its new Bigot Recognition Technology (BRT) at a press event Tuesday.

The new tech automatically detects people who are likely to be prejudiced, backward cretins and flags them for removal from the social network.

"We're looking for key indicators of bigotry, like being white, believing in God, and holding any political position to the right of Stalin," Mark Zuckerberg said at the event. "Our algorithm has been trained to flag and remove offensive people who aren't welcome on our platform: straight, cisgendered males, conservative people, and of course, Christians."

Facebook's new technology did have a major hiccup early on, when it flagged several Antifa pages, but Zuckerberg had his engineering team program an exception for bigots on the left. "If you're being intolerant for the sake of tolerance, then yes, you're exempt from our new bigot filters, obviously," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 00:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Totally believable.

And before Herb McCoy weighs in on my opinion, he can........
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2018 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully the sting of humiliation taught everyone to be more active in detecting obvious satire. It looks really bad for the Right when people blow their tops getting angry at positions literally nobody holds.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/14/2018 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Keep telling yourself that, bunky...
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2018 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The problem is that today, it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between satire and reality.

That's why I always look at the source to see if it is BabylonBee, Onion, DuffelBlog, or one of the other satire sites.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/14/2018 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably programmed it to look for red hats.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2018 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably programmed it to look for red hats.

So me and my John Deere cap are good to go.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/14/2018 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Cincinnati Reds fans hardest hit.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2018 13:14 Comments || Top||

#8  The Bee is dangerously close to reality here
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 || 11/14/2018 17:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Phrenology must be a necessary tool of the technology.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/14/2018 21:00 Comments || Top||

#10  agreed. I suggest a ball peen hammer for physical confirmation for the designers
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2018 21:03 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Countdown to mullahs’ belligerence begins
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It seems that the United States is serious this time in putting pressure on the Iranian regime in a way that leaves the latter with three options: change its hostile behavior towards its neighbors, comply with US conditions, or collapse.

According to the US, the present round of sanctions is the toughest in its history against rogue states, as they put it. Here, I want to clarify a point regarding the eight states exempted from boycotting the Iranian oil trade. This exemption is not permanent but time bound. It means that it would end within a few weeks, as emphasized by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. The other thing regarding these exemptions is that the financial return of these sales will be deposited in a bank account outside Iran to ensure that it is spent in the form of goods and services within Iran, so that it is not spent on Iranian militias abroad.

The question here is: Will the sanctions have an immediate effect on Iran’s economic conditions? I do not think so. I do not believe that the Americans expect that either. It seems that the Iranian regime had prepared itself for these sanctions long ago, by stockpiling oil outside its territory. This would enable it to absorb the impact of the crisis for some time. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
this resistance would definitely weaken over time, in a way that would make the sanctions fulfill its goals.

DANGEROUS REPERCUSSIONS
The US, as its politicians mentioned, does not seek to completely overthrow the whole regime; but rather to correct its behavior and curb its ambitions, whether by preventing it from owning nuclear power or ballistic missiles which are an integral part of the these nuclear capabilities. At the same time, the US wants to cut off its holy warrior arms which it uses to threaten its neighbors and fund terrorism with. As for overthrowing the whole regime, I do not believe that the Americans seek that. Overthrowing the regime like what happened with Saddam’s regime in Iraq would create a similar situation to what happened in Iraq, but it would be the Shiite version. This would have dangerous repercussions on the region’s stability and security.

As I said in previous articles, the first people who are going to benefit from clipping the wings of the mullahs’ regime are the Iranians themselves. These strict sanctions would convince them that having this expansionist mentality of the Middle Ages and the neglect of human beings almost completely is impossible in today’s world, and that religious countries with an expansionist mindset cannot be accepted in the modern age. Sooner or later this would make the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist come back to its senses, oblige it to protect the state from failing and forget about exporting the revolution. This latter task was one of Khomeini’s most important wills before he died. It’s also possible for the situation to aggravate as the mullahs may insist on resistance and steadfastness. This is however hardly possible.

The retreat of the mullahs’ regime from its ambitions and its resorting to rationality as well as peaceful coexistence with its neighbors is what the entire world, including the neighboring countries which this regime has harmed for over four decades, hopes for.

Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  This would have dangerous repercussions on the region’s stability and security.

When was it stable and secure? I must have slept through that phase of the Middle East.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/14/2018 8:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
OSU Football Coach Mike Gundy Slams ‘Liberalism' and ‘Snowflake' Student Transfers
[Breitbart] During his post-game press conference after a 48-47 loss to OU on Saturday, Oklahoma State University Football Coach Mike Gundy took a moment to slam all those "snowflake" student transfers who are too "non-committal."

Gundy also said the "liberalism" of the system gives the players the option of not having to "fight though it," NewsOK reported.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2018 01:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other news: Former coach Mike Gundy was spotted loading 2 by 4s in a customer's car at Home Eespot after 'enexpectedly' resigning......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/14/2018 10:48 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2018-11-14
  Ceasefire Goes Into Effect In South Following Unprecedented Rocket Barrage
Tue 2018-11-13
  Gaza factions agree to cease fire if Israel halts attack - Palestinian official
Mon 2018-11-12
  IAF have begun air strikes on Gaza.
Sun 2018-11-11
  Yemeni forces 'seize Hodeidah's main hospital' amid air raids
Sat 2018-11-10
  Yemeni forces, Saudi-led coalition launch 'vast' Hodeidah push
Fri 2018-11-09
  One dead after Melbourne knife attack being treated as terrorism - ISIS claims actions of known wolf
Thu 2018-11-08
  Syrian Man Gets Life in Prison for Making Parts in IEDs Used Against U.S.
Wed 2018-11-07
  Trump says Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns
Tue 2018-11-06
  Election Day open thread
Mon 2018-11-05
  U.S. jet fighters kill 25 Islamic State militants in Kirkuk
Sun 2018-11-04
  US soldier killed in ‘apparent insider attack’ in Kabul -- NATO
Sat 2018-11-03
  Mass grave with 1,500 bodies unearthed in Raqqa city
Fri 2018-11-02
  Foreigners among 68 militants killed, wounded in Afghan, U.S. forces operations
Thu 2018-11-01
  Nigerian Shia group says 42 killed when security forces fired upon protests
Wed 2018-10-31
  Mil Times Follow-up article: 5 freed from Gitmo in exchange for Bergdahl join Taliban's political office in Qatar


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