[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐Things were not looking good for Harvey Weinstein as a judge found him guilty of rape and sexual assault Monday.
But thinking quickly, Weinstein asserted that he was simply living his own truth, and he was let off scot-free.
"I was simply being true to myself, and my self happens to be a pervert. Baby, I was born this way," he said. "My inner compass told me to make each day my masterpiece, to dance like no one is watching, and to do whatever I feel is right, no matter what society thinks."
"As a favorite preacher of mine says, I was simply living my best life now," he added.
The judge was moved to tears and instantly declared he would be cleared of all charges.
"We are so sorry to have judged you for living out your truth," the judge said. "You do you."
[Garden and Gun] Steeped in history, this year Charleston is celebrating its 350th anniversary and every inch of the Holy City is humming with charm, hospitality, and wonder. The diversity of Charleston permeates all walks of life, from the world-class food scene and cultural institutions to perhaps the most important choice of all: where to lay your head at night. Want to experience a classic antebellum mansion? It’s here. The austere sleekness of the finest boutique hotels? It’s here. Or maybe it’s a place where your children (and your own inner child) can flip-flop between the ocean and the pool under the warmth of the afternoon sun. You’ll find that here, too. Whether you prefer a historic gem, a beachfront retreat, or an urban escape, your perfect stay awaits.
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....Check out places like the Battery, Fort Sumter, Patriot's Point Naval Museum, the CSS Hunley, and the seriously awesome Museum of Charleston. It's a clean, friendly, and affordable place.
Mike
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Please Don’t Visit. The Traffic is Brutal for us Locals.
#6
#5 yep stopped in Savannah, the Yankees took over a British Consulate and stole everything.
It’s now a private club and I ate there once, when I lived in Savannah, they have hand painted sign listing all the items stolen by the occupiers. I ate on the second floor only are members allowed on the third floor.
[Beitbart] Limbaugh: Coronavirus Being ‘Weaponized’ to Bring Down Trump Can we hold that thought? Might want to give this one a little more time in the oven before labeling "Rush wrong."
He continued, “The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. The drive-by media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as, ‘Oh my God, if you get it, you’re dead,’ do you know what the — I think the survival rate is Ninety-eight percent. Ninety-eight percent of people who get the coronavirus survive. It’s a respiratory system virus. It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponized. All superpower nations weaponize bioweapons. They experiment with them. The Russians, for example, have weaponized fentanyl. Now fentanyl is also not what it is represented to be.”
He added, “I’m not trying to get you to let your guard down. Nobody wants to get any of this stuff. I mean, you never —I hate getting the common cold. You don’t want to get the flu. It’s miserable. But we’re not talking about something here that’s going to wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there. This is a classic illustration of how media coverage — even if this media coverage isn’t stacked — even if this just the way media normally does things. This is a hyped, panic-filled version. Exactly how the media deals with these things to create audience, readership, interest, clicks what have you.” It's not like a cold, it's an extremely infectious virus, as pointed out in one of the first dozen or so comments from the Rush article. And the mortality rate seems to be in excess of 10%.
He's dealing with the mucked-up numbers of the Chinese (caried by the MSM), where deaths divided by infections gives you 1-3%. Yet the correct statistic, dividing deaths by the sum of deaths and those that are completely clear, seems in excess of 10%, perhaps much more.
#1
One of the President's major campaign running points is the success he has enabled our economy to achieve. If the cost of US pharmaceuticals skyrockets, it won't be good for the Orange Man's economy. If the virus 'tanks' the world economy, this will certainly impact his campaign as well.
#2
It's a race against the pandemic. 8 months till the election, but in reality the ripple effect on the economy requires significant lead time - at least one quarter.
So OrangeMan basically has a grace period until maybe end of June or so.
If the economy can hang in there for 4 more months, he'll be re-elected.
#6
The problems with pharmaceutical costs stem from patent abuse and regulation being designed to offer job security to bureaucrats rather than cures to patients.
#8
1. State is ordered not to send back passengers with the active virus.
2. State contract aircraft with special isolation section
3. State sends infected passengers to the US
Just a mistake like the FISA applications. Sorry, but Rush is right on this one.
#10
I think Rush is wrong; I think the bureaucracy/American mandarinate is going to purposefully mismanage this into a local pandemic in an attempt to win the cold civil war in one fell swoop, and turn around and blame Trump at the same time.
#11
It is a flu. One that is worse than the normal flu as this causes viral pneumonia and allows secondary infections that can shut down organs.
While it isn't the black death, even with a 1% mortality rate in western nations where only the older, younger and chronically sick are hit the hardest we can still see hundreds of thousands if not a million deaths.
The virus isn't the worst part or the most dangerous. It is the panic that comes with it and the shutdown of life and the economy.
#13
I worry that the bureaucrats are letting it in and undertesting to kill lots of people with the result of crashing the economy and getting bernie, among other things. Or some guy like butty-gig, who's probably just as bad as bernie.
Obama was much better at putting a nice face on the communism and sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran.
All the dems are basically nicer versions of Bernie. Even Bloomberg. He isn't suing millions of blue collar workers out of a job because he Lurves Capitalism, guys, it's a Cloward-Piven pivot.
#14
USA needs to set up a few Ellis Island type entry point for infected or possibly infected. You have to let Americans come home, but you can't just let them go anywhere until we are sure they are clear.
I'm sure a few military bases could provide runways, hospitals, and barracks facilities for this kind of thing.
#15
There's already 7 or 10 military bases designated and being setup to handle returning Americans exposed to this. All this crap about Trump ignoring it is just that crap. He's doing what can be done at this stage. And the deep state letting this thing get loose isn't going to help their candidates at the polls, besides, I really wonder if they are that stupid because once it's in a population and outside containment, nobody has control over it, so they and their families are at risk. I don't see them playing the game that stupidly.
#16
And the deep state letting this thing get loose isn't going to help their candidates at the polls, besides, I really wonder if they are that stupid because once it's in a population and outside containment, nobody has control over it, so they and their families are at risk.
#17
I don't see them playing the game that stupidly.
They've been irrationally stupid since 2016. Scorched earth is the strategy or in other terms - if I can't have it no one can. See - numerous cases of useless restraining orders failing to stop a spouse from killing his/her 'loved ones'. Power and control are a powerful drug and withdraw has dangerous side effects and not just for the abuser.
#18
Sorry folks, this bird has flown. What we see now is mostly useless security kabuki that won't stop the virus, just like you won't stop the common influenza virus.
We better deal with it the same way and go about our daily lives.
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[38 North] North Korea was notably among the first countries to announce a closure of its border due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in neighboring China. On January 21, Pyongyang notified tourism companies that it would not allow foreign tourists to enter the country. A few days later, it expanded travel restrictions, barring all travel in and out of the country and then suspending flights from both China and Russia. It has also expanded its compulsory quarantine of foreigners already in the country from 15 days to 30 days, which is set to end on March 1.
To properly assess the current situation, especially for a country like North Korea, it is important to develop a baseline understanding of what is and is not out of the ordinary about this response. To this end, the Ebola quarantine of 2014 and the SARS quarantine in 2003 provide perhaps the best sources of comparison.
The COVID-19 response stands out for how rapid and how far-reaching the travel restrictions and quarantine measures are. It also demonstrates an increasingly aggressive approach to an established response to potential public health crises in the country and illustrates the DPRK’s strong inclination towards a “control first” political culture, that is, to increase restrictions while formulating difficult policies.
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Wiki - In 1932, Surgeon General Shirō Ishii (石井四郎 Ishii Shirō), chief medical officer of the Japanese Army and protégé of Army Minister Sadao Araki was placed in a command of the Army Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory (AEPRL). Ishii organized a secret research group, the "Tōgō Unit", for various chemical and biological experimentation in Manchuria. Ishii had proposed the creation of a Japanese biological and chemical research unit in 1930, after a two-year study trip abroad, on the grounds that Western powers were developing their own programs.
One of Ishii's main supporters inside the army was Colonel Chikahiko Koizumi, who later became Japan's Health Minister from 1941 to 1945. Koizumi had joined a secret poison gas research committee in 1915, during World War I, when he and other Imperial Japanese Army officers became impressed by the successful German use of chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres, in which the Allies suffered 5,000 deaths and 15,000 wounded as a result of the chemical attack.[9][10]
Found this and thought it was appropriate to share. Some real 1984-style "memory hole" going on here, paid for by our tax dollars. This rewriting history is what Winston was employed to do by Big Brother.
Long. Wikileaks links, so we won’t post them here where some could get into trouble with their employers for seeing things they aren’t cleared for. You all can decide whether or not this is Redditers getting overexcited.
[Reddit] Like most intel agencies, the CIA never comments when their activities are exposed. That doesn't mean they don't care. Sometimes they care enough to plant stories in mainstream media to edit the historical record.
Here's a look at one such attempt, which also highlights why primary-source archives (like WikiLeaks) are critically important.
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#1
I simply choose to believe absolutely none of this.
[SALON] President Donald Trump’s speech in Florida over the weekend provides evidence that he is suffering from cognitive decline, according to a psychiatric expert.
Seth Davin Norrholm, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, said Monday that the president’s recent rant about Christmas included at least three signs of mental problems.
"So if anybody wants to be a nice conservative, talk show host is not a bad living, I would say. But I have to say, he’s a very unique guy and he’s a great man and he’s been a great friend. So thank you to Rush. Thank you," Trump said.
"And let me begin by wishing you a beautif ‐ look, do you remember this? Do you remember this? Remember, they were trying to take Christmas out of Christmas. Do you remember? They didn’t want to let you say Merry Christmas," Trump continued.
"You’d go around, you’d see department stores that have everything red, snow, beautiful, ribbons, bows. Everything was there. But they wouldn’t say Merry Christmas. They’re all saying Merry Christmas again. You remember?"
#3
The insanity defense predates modern psychology. People could tell someone wasn't right (till the credentialed got into the game to make up every excuse for foul behavior). If you're going to run a Marxist for prez, you might take up Soviet psychiatry like this as well.
#4
any of these 'psychiatrists' that are paid by the aholes in the media to diagnose someone by merely watching a video of them should have their credentials revoked and blackballed by their profession.
Psychiatry is witch-doctory enough.
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Lemme see. The guy is a billionaire; President of the United States of America; married to a smoking hot elegant lady; every time he shows up to speak tens of thousands of people stand in line to cheer him; and he paced the field at the Daytona 500. Where can I get me some of that cognitive decline?
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"Worf! Rotate shield frequencies!"
You know what consistently displays 'mental problems'? Stories like this one that are recirculated every couple of months and the authors expecting anyone to take it seriously.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Principal Investigator
Human Psychophysiology of Emotion Laboratory
Program Analyst
Trauma Recovery Program, Atlanta VA Medical Center
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^ I smell BS.
1. His title is misleading. He's actually not a psychiatrist - never went to med school, let alone was board-certified. Has degrees in psychology.
2. The guy's an attention whore who's constantly submitting pseudo-scientific pop psychology sound bites to anti-Trump and far left-wing journalists.
3. He's neither a doctor nor an author of peer-reviewed, serious scholarship but a former "program analyst" at the VA Hospital. In other words, the guy has hyped himself beyond all connection to his academic worth by constantly appearing in the shite political press. He's an activist, not a scientist or doctor.
#12
The lefty media tends to latch onto quack and frauds. This is yet another case of it...
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#13
The left is still pushing a 25th Amendment solution to their problems; Trying to cloak their efforts using fake science?
Jeeesh, these people are sore losers and never give up whenever power is involved. I'd say the professor might have a fruitful area of research with a large pool of subjects if he studied the looney Dems who have TDS.
#15
He likes the spotlight? Make him sizzle: "Fellow citizens and taxpayers, please give your full attention to this great man of medicine. Weigh carefully his many public pronouncements. Compare his achievements with the achievements of those of us whom he regards as demented lunatics. Then ask yourselves, 'Don't our vets deserve better than this?'" And so forth.
Filed under 'Culture Wars' as there currently is no 'Entitlement Wars' category.
[Right Scoop] A lesbian activist put out a video that is angering a ton of transgender extremists because she said she’s leaving the progressive left after it has become much too radical for her.
Here’s part of what Arielle Scarcella says:
"I’m a lesbian, and I don’t think gender is a social construct. I don’t think cis straight white men are evil.
"I don’t believe that genital preferences are transphobic or that there are 97 genders. I don’t think that male sex offenders belong in women’s prisons... This is my coming out video."
Oh boy. They aren’t gonna like that. I’ve been trying to highlight the battle between the extremist transgender movement and the lesbian and feminists who see that transgenderism kinda erodes the rights they are advocating for. There is definitely a tension here, and people like Scarcella prove just how extreme the liberals have gotten on the issue of gender.
#3
LBG movement needs to stand up as one against the T movement as the T are screwing up team sports and things that the others have fought for decades to become a part of.
[AccordingToHoyt] Throughout most of history, men who believe themselves superior or "elites" have believed that other men were born saddled and ready to be ridden.
The alpha male who rules over the band is, after all, a fixture of ape bands. It’s that "made on an ape frame" again.
I want to make this very clear: throughout most of history, whether king or high priest, whether Emperor or conqueror, whether nobility or oligarchy humans were subjected to someone, and to those that worked for that person/worked under the authority of that person or group of people. It was, you might consider, the "natural order of things." Truly the natural order, since it comes from nature.
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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.
[Babylon Bee] NEW YORK, NY‐Things were not looking good for Harvey Weinstein as a judge found him guilty of rape and sexual assault Monday.
[Garden and Gun] Steeped in history, this year Charleston is celebrating its 350th anniversary and every inch of the Holy City is humming with charm, hospitality, and wonder. The diversity of Charleston permeates all walks of life, from the world-class food scene and cultural institutions to perhaps the most important choice of all: where to lay your head at night. Want to experience a classic antebellum mansion? It’s here. The austere sleekness of the finest boutique hotels? It’s here. Or maybe it’s a place where your children (and your own inner child) can flip-flop between the ocean and the pool under the warmth of the afternoon sun. You’ll find that here, too. Whether you prefer a historic gem, a beachfront retreat, or an urban escape, your perfect stay awaits.
[38 North] North Korea was notably among the first countries to announce a closure of its border due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in neighboring China. On January 21, Pyongyang notified tourism companies that it would not allow foreign tourists to enter the country. A few days later, it expanded travel restrictions, barring all travel in and out of the country and then suspending flights from both China and Russia. It has also expanded its compulsory quarantine of foreigners already in the country from 15 days to 30 days, which is set to end on March 1.
