Steve Hilton is a former director of strategy for David Cameron, former Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in the UK. Hilton studied American Government at Oxford, where they taught him "very little".
But he learned a lot in Philadelphia. 3:47 video, highly recommended.
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The headline of the source article now reads: "The American system of government is under threat" A more accurate headline would have been: "The American system of government is severely degraded"
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His professors at Oxford didn't teach him anything about real American history. Wouldn't have any better luck from the credentialed lecturers in America's 'institutions of higher learning' either.
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"The melting pot, decentralized government, a republic of equals, a Constitution enshrining the precious idea of people power -- they are all under pressure and we need to fight for them."
[Human Events] The Muslim penchant to target "white" women for sexual exploitation‐an epidemic currently plaguing Europe, especially Britain and Scandinavia‐is as old as Islam itself, and even traces back to Muhammad.
Much literary evidence attests to this in the context of Islam’s early predations on Byzantium (for centuries, Christendom’s easternmost bulwark against the jihad). According to Ahmad M. H. Shboul (author of "Byzantium and the Arabs: The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature") Christian Byzantium was the "classic example of the house of war," or Dar al-Harb‐that is, the quintessential realm that needs to be conquered by jihad. Moreover, Byzantium was seen "as a symbol of military and political power and as a society of great abundance."
The similarities between pre-modern Islamic views of Byzantium and modern Islamic views of the West‐powerful, affluent, desirable, and the greatest of all infidels‐should be evident. But they do not end here. To the medieval Muslim mind, Byzantium was further representative of "white people"‐fair haired/eyed Christians, or, as they were known in Arabic, Banu al-Asfar, "children of yellow" (reference to blonde hair).
[Townhall] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is less hideously unattractive than the usual Democrat potentate or potentatette and has therefore been anointed the new face of her pathetic party.
This dumb woman, who looks like Huma Abedin without the pedohubby and the weird relationship with Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, took advantage of her even dumber New York district in order to get elected to Congress by calling herself a "socialist." Yeah, the subject of a thousand Trader Joe’s house brand chardonnay toasts is a proud adherent of the ideology that butchered 100 million people in the last century.
Considering how much mainstream liberals hate us Normal Americans for militantly defending our rights, it’s no surprise that they are looking to their leftist ancestors for some helpful hints about how to deal with us uppity, kulak-y obstacles to their rightful and permanent domination of society.
Totally unrelated: I know I’m super excited about the idea of giving up our guns right about now. How about you?
Ocasio-Cortez is an idiot, like all adolescent socialists, so she qualified to be the Great Pinko Hope for a party in decline. Here’s how bad she is ‐ she apparently went to college, got a degree in economics, and still ended up a socialist. If she went to med school, she would have probably left a chain smoker.
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I will itemize everything Soros sold for money during the Holocaust and run compound interest. His Family does not get shit when I AM done with this.
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Democrats love marxism because they are suffering from neoteny and want to regress to a point in time where they were looked after by their parents and bought everything.
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Several elections ago I asked a co-worker to define and defend "They should pay their Fair Share." Was it a "Fair Share' only if They are wealthier and pay more money than You? Who votes on this?
I also asked him if "...starving Africans can vote on increasing our Taxes so they can get more Foreign Aid?" He *blinked* and replied that "Of course not! They're not Americans!" The logical point that when you believe that 'Taking Other People's Money Is Good When You Want To' makes little quibbles like nationality irrelevant totally escaped him.
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Socialism has always been about legitimatizing stealing.
There you have it. At their core they are all thieves and murderers.
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#1 I will itemize everything Soros sold for money during the Holocaust and run compound interest. His Family does not get shit when I AM done with this.
This happens this year or I will
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Please do newc, I would love to see such an list be made public. There's no need to wait!
[American Thinker] Somebody with deep expertise on image creation got ahold of the latest darling of the left and glammed her up for her current role as the standard bearer for the socialist wing of the Democrats, the Great Hispanic Hope to lead the "browning of Amerca" toward a radical future. Sometime between 2011 and 2018, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was transformed from an earnest and nerdy wannabe entrepreneur into a glamorous radical crusader for socialism, the delusion-of-the-moment that has captured the imagination of the malcontent demographic slice of America. Ponder for a moment the difference between this close-up from her campaign poster.
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In tandem with her transformation from nerd to a female Che Guevara, she morphed from capitalist to membership in a party that wants to “abolish profit.”
Probably the same Madison Avenue evil genius who re-packaged Obama and sold him. Maybe some wag was sitting in the bar where Alexandria Ocasio Cortez worked and said sweetie, I can make you a star. Or maybe it was the person who came up with the Lenscrafter ads.
Judging from the last few election results, it doesn't seem like Democratic socialism sells too well in flyover land; places where church/God, small business and the military are the still the most respected institutions; the place where Obama said people "cling to their bibles and guns."
[Hot Air] Americans, it seems, are growing increasingly dubious, skeptical, even cynical about many of their once-hallowed institutions.
These include especially Congress. But any such disapproval list also contains TV news, newspapers, unions, public schools and even the criminal justice system.
Only two institutions ‐ the military and small business ‐ hold an overwhelming net positive opinion in the minds of Americans. The volunteer military has by far the most public confidence ‐ 94 percent with a great deal or some confidence in it. Only five percent have none, according to a new Gallup phone survey of 1,520 adult Americans..
Small business draws some or a lot of confidence from 83 percent, with only six percent none. "The police" have 85 percent with at least some confidence, but a large number of no confidence ‐ 15 percent.
After those institutions the confidence numbers decline rather rapidly, suggesting if continued a long-term threat to political stability. More on that below.
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This bogus Trump-Russian story, Comey, Mueller, Rosentein, Clinton, Benghazi, etc. are surely at the base of the 'loss in confidence.' No one within the beltway breaks wind without 5 other people immediately calculating down-wind drift. There are NO secrets in Washington. Our 'elected officials' have access to mountains of information both classified and unclassified, along with highly skilled analysts, and numerous think tanks.
They (the congress) know exactly what is going on and they appear to be doing very little about it.
In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy.” Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”
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Mr B, that is very astute regarding (#2)--there are no secrets for the insiders. One of the revelations from the Strzok-Page texts is what appears to be a stunning lack of opsec. Apparently opsec isn't required amongst the beltway annointed. They are all in on it and the public isn't.
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Skepticism is a good thing - until you are skeptical of leftists. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism - until a Kenyan phony is installed in the White House. And so on...
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[Breitbart] Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that Jesus would approve of gay marriage and certain abortions in an interview with HuffPost Live.
Speaking of his faith, Mr. Carter said in his career as a politician he never ran across "any really serious conflicts between my political obligations and my religious faith."
Asked about gay marriage, he replied that it is "no problem with me. I think everybody should have a right to get married regardless of their sex.
Regarding whether he thinks Jesus would approve of gay marriage, Carter replied "I don’t have any verse in Scripture," but added, "I believe that Jesus would approve of gay marriage."
"I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else and I don’t see that gay marriage damages anyone else," he said.
The 39th president did add a caveat concerning religious liberty and the right to "opt out" of same-sex marriage.
"The only thing I would draw a line on," he said, is "I wouldn’t be in favor of the government being able to force a local church congregation to perform gay marriages if they didn’t want to. But those two partners should be able to go to a local courthouse or to a different church and get married."
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Peanut head..talk about your cultural malaise. Jimmah now relegated to 2nd worst president. Champ still 1st and increasing his lead esp. when/if all the deep state workings emerge and he is found to be orchastrating - or at least waving his arms while ValJar works the strings.
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Keep this line of thought in mind the next time you see an article, or perhaps many, decrying the mass exodus of the American public from churches. We haven't left the church they left us when they decided to rewrite everything in accordance with the latest Acela corridor fad.
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I can pretty easily imagine the chapter about Noah getting drunk and being taken advantage of by Ham being one of Jimmuah's nightly devotions...
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Carter was so good as a President that he only got one term and the Republicans followed with three to wash out the stables. And that's after Nixon stunk up the GOP brand.
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Never ran across any serious conflicts? I gather he automatically resolved them all in favor of what the party said. I heard he used to teach Sunday School. I hope this is a late-in-life deterioration...
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[Wash Times] This year, more than 610,000 Americans will die from heart disease. It’s the leading cause of death for both men and women.
For decades, doctors and nutritionists prescribed low-fat diets to people trying to lower their risk of heart disease. Saturated fats in meats and dairy products were thought to clog our arteries. Grains ‐ especially "whole" ones ‐ were thought to help everything from high cholesterol to digestion.
A growing body of research suggests this advice was wrong. For most people, it’s carbohydrates, not fats, that are the true cause of heart disease.
Consider a report published last year in The Lancet that studied nutrition among more than 135,000 people across 18 different countries ‐ making it the largest-ever observational study of its kind. The researchers found that people who ate the least saturated fat ‐ about the same amount currently recommended for heart patients ‐ had the highest rates of heart disease and mortality. Meanwhile, people who consumed the most saturated fat had the lowest rate of strokes.
Limiting intake of carbohydrates, rather than fats, is a surer way to decrease the risk of heart disease. An analysis of more than a dozen studies published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that patients on low-carb diets had healthier body weights and cardiovascular systems than those on conventional low-fat diets. I’m a cardiologist in Virginia and my own patients have seen the benefits of a low-carb, high-fat diet firsthand
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Don't forget the impact of di-hydrogen monoxide, the worlds most deadly compound.
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Humans have been eating carbs in large quantities for thousands of years. 80-85% of the daily caloric intake was wheat or other grains and those people actually had a greater daily intake than modern humans as they ate closer to 3000 calories a day.
The major difference is, they busted their asses from dawn to dusk and burned off those 3000 calories. Most modern humans sit on their ass and don't to the physical labor our ancestors did. Combine that with the easy calories of carbs and you have a perfect recipe for heart disease.
Up until the birth of agriculture 6,000 years ago, the majority of early man's diet was meat and fat. One dead buffalo could feed a tribe for weeks whereas waiting for the "crop" to come in takes months.
Looking in a site, the artifacts are not muffin tins and cookie sheets, it is knives, hide scrapers and pieces of bone.
This propaganda about man being mostly whole grains etc, is wrong. Most agriculture went to producing beer which was a cheap safe means of purifying water.
I'm on a ketogenic diet because of the Warburg effect. Cancer can only process glucose whereas normal cells can process fat through ketosis or glucose.
Just remember that insulin is your enemy and the lower your carb intake the less likely you are to develop type II diabetes or high levels of cholesterol...interestingly most people when they go high fat have their cholesterol go down.
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You are talking before there was a huge farming culture. After full farming took over in most of the world, around 2500-3000 years ago carbs were the dominate food.
It isn't propaganda, it is backed by archaeology. Bread and flat cakes are easy to make, have a nice calorie boost and can be stored for a long, long time.
Yes, for modern humans that don't burn 3000 calories a day, carbs can be deadly. But for our ancestors they were a vital and necessary foodstuff and demonizing them because we are fat lazy bastards doesn't tell the whole story.
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That and Official Government Guidelines™ offering dietary advice based on that mythical "Average Person" can be life threatening to the individual -- and we are all individuals!
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Been doing straight up Atkins for a while. Definitely losing belly fat but weight not changing much. Pants are not tight and I like grilled meat so I'm going with it.
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#10 Human genetics don't change in 3000 years, Darth. --g(r)omgoru
Why, yes, they do, every time under severe evolutionary selection. The Current generation of American Indians have genetic resistances to the "Old World Diseases" far different from pre-Contact. All the people that were highly susceptible died and failed to pass on their genes...
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William Hardy Williams' Plagues and Peoples was particularly chilling on his description that the initial generation exposed to a "killer" disease would have symptoms, bizarre lethal symptoms, that made it almost impossible to determine the pathogens from the records...
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Humanity were hunter gatherers for a long time. But with agriculture came cities and civilization (or with cities and civilization came agriculture).
The problems with that agriculture were not manifested for a long time because of the busting your ass effect Darth mentioned.
The real problem in the USA is the food pyramid that guided the 'healthy diet' is all carbs and it was created to please farm states because they vote early in the primaries.
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Why, yes, they do, every time under severe evolutionary selection. The Current generation of American Indians have genetic resistances to the "Old World Diseases" far different from pre-Contact.
That's not genetics, it's environment - what an immune system exposed to from early age.
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Human genetics don't change in 3000 years, Darth.
European's ability to tolerate lactose and the rapid spread of light colored eyes and hair beg to differ.
I would argue some of the modern issues with wheat/gluten/carbs has more to do with the types we now use and what we spray on them. Ancient grains like Spelt are no longer used. We use a drought resistant mutant that also has more gluten for a softer, springy bread. This is a fairly recent change in our diets. That with whatever crap they spray on it I believe does more harm than the carb itself.
My wife has serious reactions to modern gluten, joint inflammation and severe bloating, but can eat a sandwich made with organic Spelt just fine.
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#18 That's sexual selection Darth, and - with all due respect to Cavalli- Sforza - I'm not sure it took 3000, or even 30000, years.
Now about all this carbohydrate staff - everlooked on the changes hunter gathers' switch to agriculture brought
or what happened to Japanese after they became rich and started eating meat?
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, by Gary Taubes.
All about carbs and insulin and their effects on yer body. American dietary recomendations make you chronically ill. Then the doctors prescribe all kinds of drugs to mask the symptoms.
I recommend red meats, green vegetables and brown liqour. Its all you need to be healthy. Oh, and get off your ass and move around.
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Carbs? I like carbs. I got a tombstone diet and am a dead man walking. Been getting on down the road for quite awhile now with my carb diet. Wonder if our resident poet could get a country song out of that?
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this low-fat bullshit was pushed by the government, and conveniently helped a lot of large corporate agriculture companies. High fructose corn syrup is metabolic poison. Its replacement of sugar in the 70's marks the beginning of the type 2 diabetes epidemic. Correlation is not causation, but there is certainly something there to look at.
Best theory I've heard goes like this:
Fructose is metabolized in the liver, and elevated liver enzymes a precursor to type 2 diabetes, as part of "syndrome X". It creates intestinal difficulties with altered grellin production in the stomach (meaning you stay hungry in spite of eating), and that in turn alters intestinal processes. By altering intestinal processes, it can cause the loss of production of GLP-1. GLP-1 initiates and governs the insulin secretion and response, as well as triggering satiety (fullness) signaling in the brain. Once that goes haywire, the body starts screwing up insulin, and then resistance grows. That means insulin is overproduced because there is not enough GLP-1 made to signal the pancreas to stop. Excess insulin over time reduces the body's sensitivity to it. That leaves insulin sitting around, unable to enter the cells - which leaves insulin AND glucose in excess in the blood. insulin sitting around unused picks up the extra glucose going unused and causes the body to store it as adipose (fat) tissue. And fat tissue aggravates insulin resistance, completing the nasty circle. You eat, you dont get full until you've over eaten, your body doesnt use up the carbs but stores them as fat.
This leaves you full but hungry, tired from not enough energy in the cells, getting fatter, and with high blood sugar that damages the fine arteries and capillaries of your organs, including the kidneys, eyes, and the heart.
It is a nasty cycle that's hard to break unless you ditch carbohydrates nearly completely and start living off ketones which brings its own set of problems.
FYI, from what I read genetic changes can occur in the span of a couple of generations. Go look up epigenetics. Behavior and environment can favor expression of certain genes, as well as activating them and passing them on. The "selfish gene" and its impact on those of Irish descent and how they handle carbohydrates.
[Breitbart] BBC Newsnight has given a self-styled ’black radical’ free rein to insist that the West is "built on racism" and black people should unite to secure reparations and stage a "revolution".
Kehinde Andrews, who was appointed Britain’s first ever professor of ’black studies’ at the publicly-funded Birmingham City University, was invited to the publicly-funded broadcaster’s flagship news programme to speak to Emily Maitlis about his new book, Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century.
The academic appears to be a favourite of the media giant, having also been filmed for a BBC 3 segment in which he argued the English flag should be scrapped ‐ in part because he believes the English were "flying this flag during the Crusades, and going around through Muslim countries trying to convert them" ‐ just last month, and for another Newsnight segment in which he argued British sports stars should "take a knee or clench a fist" during the British national anthem" because the country’s flag represents "oppression" last October.
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Would love to see a White male studies department show that African culture makes people poor and women and men choose differently and this explains any earnings gaps.
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I've got a feeling the call for revolution is more about reparations than revolution. Either that or this guy is a self-loathing black and wants to destroy the black race which is racist since most revolutions don't end too well. Black professors protesting from the academic lectern is kind of cheeky and expected these days with the lefty crowd.
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JQC, how about this guy is a spoiled baby who never learned a limits to "I want", because he grew up in a culture who rewards passion - not achievement.
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I would actually pay to send these revolutionaries on a one-way trip to Wakanda if they promised to give up American citizenship. Or they can just shut up.
[Daily Caller] After losing the Democratic primary to a white incumbent, former Colorado congressional candidate Saira Rao has decided it is time to "give up on white people."
Rao tweeted a link to an April New York Times column asking the question "Should I Give Up on White People?." Rao commented, "Short and long answer: YES."
Rao, the daughter of Indian immigrants, challenged long-time Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette in the Denver congressional district, but only received 31 percent of the vote.
"I stand by it," Rao told Colorado Politics about her tweeted statement. "It’s incumbent on white people and not people of color to solve it," Rao said, just as it’s incumbent on men to solve sexism. (RELATED: Rutgers Prof: ’Officially, I Now Hate White People’)
If white people dislike being lumped in with white supremacists, that is because of their "white fragility," Rao added.
Though she was running as a Democrat, Rao wrote in December column for The Huffington Post that she had broken up with the party after noticing "that the love has been one-sided."
"You’ve taken my love, my money, my tokenism, with nary anything in return," Rao wrote in the open letter addressed to the Democratic Party.
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...That last line is, I think, rather telling. She knew she was a token, but did it anyways. Power? Self-gratification? Either way, it doesn't reflect well on Ms. Rao.
Mike
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The dem party is going to keep running on their opinion that the majority of Americans are deplorable...
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Childish racism and stereotyping by a mental midget loser
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#4 true that Nikki Haley got lots of white votes. I guess we South Carolina Republicans are just a LOT less racist than Colorado Democrats. Sensitivity training for them, maybe?
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Though she was running as a Democrat, Rao wrote in December column for The Huffington Post that she had broken up with the party after noticing "that the love has been one-sided."
That might explain her election loss. Just guessing but saying you want no part of the party you hope to elect you is probably a pretty bad strategy.
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Some District of Columbia residents interviewed recently by PJM said the national anthem is an appropriate time to protest and the NFL’s decision to prohibit players from kneeling restricts their First Amendment rights.
One D.C. resident who did not give her name opposes the NFL’s policy referred to the language of the National Anthem as "pretty racist."
"I absolutely disagree with it. I think that they are kneeling for a reason and I think we need to respect that," she said, adding players "need to be able to protest what they need to. I don’t care if they’re playing a sport at the time, like, it needs to be said."
She addressed proponents of the decision who have argued that the national anthem is not the time to protest racial inequality or any other issue.
"The national anthem has always been pretty racist anyway in its language, and I also think like it’s kind of a disservice to the people who fought for the country because they fought for us to be able to do this. And if any time is the time to say it, I think the national anthem is a good time to say it," the woman said. "I don’t think that it should be held to that regard where you can’t express your freedom of speech, which is the very thing that we fight for."
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If this kneeling crap / protesting 'social injustice / police brutality' (or whatever the hell they're protesting this week) was done on their own time, this would be far less of an issue. That said, PJ Media's giving far too much airtime to these few DC yo-yo's who can't articulate a single reason for these protests or why our national anthem is racist (written by a white guy!), unless the point is to point out the absence of logic in the 'D.C. resident''s statement. They're all Democrat voters in any event, so this isn't exactly a surprise.
NFL ratings will continue to bleed badly this year.
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Imagine: You contract plumbers and they set up a picket line in front of your domicile with banners Supporting Their Cause and prominently mentioning Your Name and Address. Isn't this the same as the NFL Players hijacking the opening ceremony...? As long as they want to express themselves privately ...great, forcefully co-opting a third party ...not so great.
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What, A, Dimwit. Point out the 'pretty racist' verses, I dare you! Militaristic, jingoistic, yes, those I will grant, but racist?!? This seems another example of someone that uses 'racist', 'fascist', or *shudder* 'Conservative' as an euphemism for "icky, nasty people" without thinking about the issues. A flatworm shows the same level of cognition...
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Why is football any different from other jobs (other than the obvious)? Most workers in other workplaces don't take a knee in protest. If they did they would most likely be fired. These guys are grandstanding. No audience; no show; no reason to take a knee because no one will be watching. No money.
We are not teaching history in school anymore? It was the War of 1812 and the Brits were hiring black slaves and others to fight against Americans. We were a sovereign country at the time. Were these hirelings engaging in sedition?
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#3 And no one can figure out why everyone outside the beltway is not interested in statehood for the place --Procopius2k
:Heh: There is already a simple solution that Was Already Applied: District of Columbia Retrocession. Pick the parts of the capitol that you want to keep, think the size of the Vatican in Rome, and revert the rest into the dubious joys of being a part of Maryland! Easey Peasey!
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At a certain point, pro (and big money college) sports fans are pretty much like drug buyers. The money they spend damages the country. I really don't care that they want to poison themselves but I do object to second hand toxicity affecting my life.
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The money they spend damages the country.
So much of our economy is made up of this kind of spending.
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So much of our economy is made up of this kind of spending.
Does not make it tolerable or correct...
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Wait a dog-gone minute. You mean to tell me that Colin "Spoiled Brat" Koepernick kneeled all because of the lyrics (and only now, people SUDDENLY know the words?).
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.
[Hot Air] Americans, it seems, are growing increasingly dubious, skeptical, even cynical about many of their once-hallowed institutions.
[Breitbart] Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that Jesus would approve of gay marriage and certain abortions in an interview with HuffPost Live.
[Wash Times] This year, more than 610,000 Americans will die from heart disease. It’s the leading cause of death for both men and women.
[Daily Caller] After losing the Democratic primary to a white incumbent, former Colorado congressional candidate Saira Rao has decided it is time to "give up on white people."
