[American Thinker] The Department of Justice has been weaponized. This is not a recent development, and it was not perpetrated by Republicans. Any suggestions to the contrary are simply wrong, and may constitute part of a disinformation campaign instituted to smother current news and support the political operations of certain hard-eyed, hard-left partisans who appear to be using the DoJ as a weapon.
The DoJ was first weaponized in 1961 at the start of the Kennedy administration. In order to put a leash on the DoJ and prevent it from looking too closely at John F. Kennedy and those close to him, presidential brother Robert Kennedy was made attorney general. The initial impulse was defensive, to prevent FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and other elements of the DoJ from bothering the activities of the JFK inner circle, all Democrats; but soon there developed a pattern of using DoJ assets to offensively operate against political opponents. One early effort involved columnist Igor Cassini, prosecuted and convicted of "not registering as a foreign agent" (the real offense was embarassingt he Kennedy family). Another more famous prosecution involved Billie Sol Estes. He was targeted, prosecuted, and villainized by the DoJ and liberal press assets of the Democrat party not because of a real desire to jail him, but in order to try to force him to "roll over" on LBJ, the real target of the Estes prosecution. In fact, that prosecution was a political operation meant to discredit then-vice president Johnson so that the Kennedy partisans could remove him from the 1964 presidential ticket. After Estes was charged and while he was being pressed hard by the DoJ, RFK asked him to come to Washington for a meeting, and Estes did so. At the meeting Estes was told that what was really wanted was for him to let the DoJ write an affidavit for Estes to sign, and then his prosecution would end. That affidavit would have been critical of LBJ. Estes refused to play the game, and as a result he was eventually tried and sent to prison.
This should sound familiar. Its similarity to present-day prosecutions of General Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort is not merely coincidental.
Democrats have not stopped using the DoJ as a partisan weapon since Camelot. In fact, they have found more ingenious ways to use the Justice Department as a weapon. These include entrapment, so-called "process crimes", and media "leaks" that no legitimate prosecutor would use, the use of close friends in the media to spread disinformation, the pursuit of partisan political agendas by hard-left partisans embedded within DoJ, and even thuggish midnight raids on homes to intimidate victims and others..
Through the years, Democrats have used these techniques with increasing boldness, in operations to influence foreign policy, and now even in an apparent operation to undo the results of a national presidential election.
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Another more famous prosecution involved Billie Sol Estes. He was targeted, prosecuted, and villainized by the DoJ and liberal press assets of the Democrat party not because of a real desire to jail him, but in order to try to force him to "roll over" on LBJ, the real target of the Estes prosecution. In fact, that prosecution was a political operation meant to discredit then-vice president Johnson so that the Kennedy partisans could remove him from the 1964 presidential ticket.
Motive.
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At the meeting Estes was told that what was really wanted was for him to let the DoJ write an affidavit for Estes to sign, and then his prosecution would end. That affidavit would have been critical of LBJ. Estes refused to play the game, and as a result he was eventually tried and sent to prison.
He didn't want to end up like some of Hillary's associates.
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Pistol ammunition prices were mostly steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mixed.
Prices for used pistols were mostly lower. Prices for used rifles were mostly lower.
(June 30th, 2018) For the seventh week running, used AR-15 prices have averaged out to below $500.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Muntions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .13 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, CCI, RNL, Aluminum Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, TPMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammomen, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: +.04 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: -.35 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, ARM, SP, Brass Casing, 2.15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Cabelas, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, Brass Casing, 2.80 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged 6 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munition, Aguila, RNL, Brass Casing, .03 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Remington, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018))
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^ Heh. I hoped some good would come of this awful thing, and there it is.
A wonderful weapon the blunderbuss,
The megaphone rendered more thunderous,
Employed for their sketches
By powdercaked wretches
To baffle the schlubs that encumber us.
Long, and with linked subject articles as well. If today will be busy, you may want to skim today, then sit down tomorrow with a cup of coffee to ponder it properly, dear Reader.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s 30 June Revolution ended the political ambitions of the Moslem Brüderbund, but an accurate account of the group’s aims and methods is still necessary from the region today to correct widespread Western misunderstanding.
Five years after the millions-strong grassroots uprising that ousted the Moslem Brüderbund from ruling Egypt along with its president Mohammed Morsi, the country continues to suffer from the strains precipitated by a rebellion against an Islamist organization that had leveraged itself to power behind a democratic facade while its actual practices during its year in power foreshadowed a form of totalitarianism that would have had disastrous consequences for Egypt.
After the successful overthrow of the nascent Moslem Brüderbund theocracy in the 30 June 2013 Revolution, various Islamist groups vowed Dire Revenge against the Egyptian people and their new political authorities.
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A superb evaluation:
"The roots of Brotherhood violence"
While some Muslim Brotherhood members today are calling for a return to the ideas of the organisation’s founder Hassan Al-Banna, in truth his views merely explain its long-standing use of violence
Ammar Ali Hassan, Friday 29 Jun 2018
h/t Instapundit
Lately I keep coming back to Britain. Across Western Europe in the last few years, national or regional governments have instituted full or partial bans on Muslim face coverings: no niqab or burka in French, Austrian, or Belgian public spaces, ditto in Bavarian schools, in various localities in Italy, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland, and in certain public spaces in Barcelona. On Tuesday, after a thirteen-year effort by Geert Wilders, the Dutch Parliament finally approved a French-style ban. These bans may represent only a fraction of what needs to be done to save Europe, but at least they're something -- minor if defiant gestures of civilizational self-assertion in response to aggressive emblems of conquest.
In Britain, by contrast -- well, when asked last year about a burka ban, Prime Minister Theresa May curtly ruled it out as "divisive" and discriminatory. "I believe that what a woman wears is a woman's choice," she said, preferring not to acknowledge the well-established fact that many women and girls who walk around in 90-degree temperatures with their faces and bodies covered in heavy, dark, non-breathable fabrics are not doing so out of choice. These days, even as other countries are beginning to debate these matters and pass (admittedly tame) prohibitions, the kind of wholesale denial of reality expressed by May seems, in Britain, to be ever more deeply rooted.
...Britain's new Orwellian orthodoxy, which, one gathers, compels every good Brit to affirm that, where Islam is concerned, everything is the exact opposite of the way it really is. According to this orthodoxy -- which isn't exclusive to Britain, but which increasingly seems to have reached its fullest flowering there (and, needless to say, in poor, lost Sweden) -- it's Islamic culture that embodies virtue and decency and all good things, and it's one's own culture that represents a malignant threat thereto.
...Have they convinced themselves that they're doing something virtuous, something Christian -- turn the other cheek, the log in your own eye, and all that? Are they terrified that anything other than a constant stream of pro-Islamic bilge will incite Muslim insurrection? (Surely the frantic official handling of the Robinson case ‐ and the banning of respected Islam critics from the U.K. ‐ suggest that the British establishment is trembling at the thought of mass Muslim fury in reaction to truth-telling.)
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) told PJM that saving Medicare and Social Security and cutting "excess" federal spending are winning issues for Republicans in the midterm elections.
The Trump administration has projected that the Medicare Trust Fund would be depleted by 2026 while the Social Security Trust Fund is estimated to run out by 2034.
"I think it's our opportunity to save Social Security and Medicare after 60 years of outrageous, irresponsible liberal spending, in that the formula wouldn’t work. Lyndon Johnson knew it when they put the Great Society in and they liberalized the Social Security plan and so forth; they knew it was never going to be sustainable. Here we are at the end of that run and it's not sustainable, so we as Republicans could be seen as the saviors of Social Security; it is not that hard," Perdue told PJM during a recent interview at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference in Washington.
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Shutting down a ponzi scheme will always leave the ‘last in’ feeling conned and ripped off. These GIVERnment schemes are even worse since they have forced participation.
#4
Most people pay into a mandatory retirement fund (Social Security) for 45-50 years, never take out a dime until age 62 or later and the fund is going broke? Something tells me we need a new funds manager.
Oh, their payments went into the gov't general fund and the money got pi**ed away. Ok, now I understand.
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I am retired and getting that old, *cough*, experienced (?)... I expect that the IRS will be "Means testing" it soon -- if you saved anything you will be screwed.
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I am retired and getting that old, *cough*, experienced (?)... I expect that the IRS will be "Means testing" it soon -- if you saved anything you will be screwed.
Already doing it (means testing) with property taxes in Georgia. Shame on us for working hard and being thrifty....the communist redistribution bastids.
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Shutting down a ponzi scheme will always leave the ‘last in’ feeling conned and ripped off.
You solve this by granting the "last in" tax credits equal to their contributions. Make the credits transferrable so they can be converted to cash. It's a sort of derivative and you know how hungry parts of the finance industry are for those.
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'Affordable Retirement Act' coming soon. This is where the Government manages all the 401K's and IRA to insure it is managed properly (and everyone gets a fair share of *your* pie.) Cause just like you can't be trusted to manage your own healthcare you can't be trusted to manage your retirement funding.
They did it with healthcare. This is just a small step to the slde.
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Yep, their are already some Democrat politicians floating the idea of "protecting" your retirement IRA/401(k)/Pensions by seizing "incorporating them into Social Security". You lose freedom to pass it on to designated heirs and they can claim "Social Security" is Saved. Win-Win! Bet they have a bullet-proof trust fund hidden offshore...
#10
So they are going to start paying retired Americans in CHICKEN like the four toon 500 companies do in MEXICO awesome hey we are all going to the grandparents for beer and wings again football every Sunday!
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Something tells me we need a new funds manager.
Something tells me the old funds managers need to be drug to the public square and hung.
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#4 Most people pay into a mandatory retirement fund (Social Security) for 45-50 years, never take out a dime until age 62 or later and the fund is going broke? Something tells me we need a new funds manager.
Moreover, the same can be said of Medicare. Seniors have paid into this fund most of their working lives and don't benefit from these programs until 65 should they live to that age.
[American Thinker] The ever so self-important Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein finally came before the House Judiciary Committee today, along with FBI Director Christopher Wray. This particular committee has been on the case for many months with little cooperation from the DOJ or FBI. It has been obvious from the beginning of all this nonsense that the higher-ups in both of these agencies feel themselves to be above the law; way above the law.
Rosenstein was all smiles and smirks, his disdain for the entire proceeding abundantly clear: he abhors the Congressmen on this committee, and feels no compunction to cooperate any more than Peter Strzok did the previous day. They both lied, dissembled, blathered and snickered at what they see as an inconvenient annoyance.
Rosenstein is a caricature of a bloviating, pompous little pajama boy that SNL might satirize if he were a Republican. He claims to be a Republican but no one on the planet believes that, any more than they believe Comey or Wray are Republicans. This bunch has a plan, and to paraphrase from a great Fred Thompson line from The Hunt For Red October, the DC establishment does not do anything without a plan. The pretend political affiliations of the cabal that tried to frame Trump are irrelevant. They are all part of the same gang of swamp thugs.
Rosenstein however is an entity unto himself. Is he a sociopath? Hard to tell. His false front is one of preternatural calm but watching him yesterday, no one could miss his barely controlled fury at being questioned by those lesser beings for whom he has obvious contempt. He bragged about being the boss of 132,000 employees! It is a safe bet that many loathe him. He was wrongly appointed by Trump to be Deputy AG and is a fake Republican, the man who wrote the memo to Sessions advising him to fire Comey and is now investigating him for obstruction of justice for taking his advice.
All this feels like part of a master plan in which many DC swells are complicit. Rosentstein appoints Mueller, this part of the plan orchestrated by Comey; Comey leaks "memos" to his Columbia pal so that Mueller’s pre-planned appointment as Special Counsel would come to fruition. It all worked perfectly, so they probably thought. They were on the road to taking Trump down. What they had begun in the spring of 2016 was going to run its course and the President would be down and out. This was a bi-partisan operation. McCain and his ilk hated Trump presuming to set foot into their realm!
Rosenstein's resume may be impressive, as is everyone's in his circle of friends. Who cares? We have come to learn that most of these privileged wonks, our self-appointed nobility, are rather mind-numbed jerks without an original thought. Rosenstein, like the rest of them, is a perfect representative of the "expert class," except that they are historically wrong on all counts.
They have all been raised and educated to believe they are the cream of the crop, superior to the rest of us who are deserving of contempt. They have been born and bred to tell the rest of us how to live. The American people finally had their fill of these "betters" and elected Trump, the establishment's nightmare -- an outsider. His victory was a win for the American people who love their country. Rosenstein, like Obama, sees the US as needing to be transformed or at the very least, the people must be better ruled. The Constitution, in their view, allows far too much liberty for individuals.
How do we solve a problem like Rosenstein and tamp down the controlling sensibilities of the American left? They have to be defeated, completely. Such people have no business telling our elected officials what they can and cannot have access to. This is not the Soviet Union or East Germany before the fall of the wall. Their hollow claims of "confidentiality" are bogus. They are covering up their own grievous crimes against the nation. It was our own FBI, DOJ, and CIA who colluded with one another and a host of nefarious, underworld informants in an attempt to bring down a legitimate Presidential candidate, and then a President-elect. Rosenstein lied through throughout that hearing. Wray was incidental; he is no leader equipped to reform the FBI. It is as though they all are aware of how corrupt each agency is and they are all afraid for themselves and their cushy jobs. Not one of them cares about the country, the Constitution or what is right and honorable.
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Rosenstein however is an entity unto himself. Is he a sociopath?
If you think he's 'self-important', then yes, he's a sociopath, and you're going to have to shitcan upper management in droves to get what you want from FBI & DOJ, so get on with it!
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I only saw 1 exchange with this joker wherein he stated that it was technologically complex and time consuming to explain why they hadn't turned over all the texts when asked, but he could assure them the FBI wasn't hiding anything.
So, on the one hand the media cheerleaders are herniating themselves to create new superlatives to describe that rather threadbare bureau, and on the other they can't even reliably retrieve their own electronic communications? Hey sure, THAT'S believable. Must be how they nabbed Gotti, sort of or something
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Get whatever blackmail material the Awan brothers had on Congress and tell them: "Fast track all the Trump nominees or everyone finds out what you're really in to. That includes you, Mr. Speaker and you too, Sen. Sasse."
Then clean out all the Obama holdovers and put in your own people.
Sweet reason is useless with these clowns, and only earns derision.
...Say what you will about J. Edgar, had he still been around a lot of these weasels never would have gotten near the top floor of 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
And more than a few of the other swamp rats would have been treated to very quiet conversations, looks at confidential reports and pictures, and then decided to spend more time with their families.
Mike
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Slow walking everything = coverup for criminality.
Deepstaters are trying to wait out things in hopes of a switch-over in the make-up of Congress in November.
Prosecuting the offenders will clear up a lot of this.
[Breitbart] Friday on ESPN’s "First Take," co-host Stephen A. Smith blasted former MLB star Sammy Sosa over using a skin bleaching cream to become lighter skinned.
Sosa sat down with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap and denied using performance-enhancing drugs, but Smith argued the change in skin color "points to his guilt."
"What really points to his guilt ‐ his skin color. That’s right, I said it," said Smith. "I’m pointing to a guy like Sammy Sosa, not a Michael Jackson who had that disease or whatever, this is Sammy Sosa who I’m told was on the record talking about the lightning of skin color, is a profitable business. He thinks he looks better with it and somebody done told him wrong."
He continued, "Let me be very, very clear. If you are an individual that would purposefully change the complexion of your skin to that degree, you are incredibly superficial. And if that is what you are about your looks, how would you be, Max and Molly, about your game? If you are sitting up there and you’re struggling on the field in front of thousands of people a day while millions are watching on television, if you are caring about how you look, how much are you caring about how you look playing a game you get paid millions to play? To me, that is also an indictment because he is clearly showing you how superficial he is, how superficial he is willing to be."
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Sammy Sosa's long since retired - I doubt the average baseball fan (what few are left) even give him a second thought. This is just another chance for Screamin' A. Smith to bring up race, again.
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He continued, "Let me be very, very clear.
♪‼♪ Klaxon ♪‼♪ "Bovine Scat Ahead! Bovine Scat Ahead! All Hands Don Protective Gear Immediately!"
It sure makes it easier when they tell you when to take a refrigerator break...
#6
Sosa now has the same creepy vibe as post cosmetic surgery Robert Blake had playing the heavy in David Lynch's Lost Highway.
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A clip of that played on a TV in the bar yesterday. I was sitting, drinking with a large black man named Mike. We watched and when his pic came up, we both said "WTF?" at the same time. Then shared a laugh. He also agreed Smith is a tool
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Sammy Sosa? That name sounds familiar. He was, like, Kaiser Sosa's brother or something, right?
#10
I just never get tired of not paying for any of it.
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Just out of curiosity...
Just how much makeup does this guy put on before appearing on camera? Looks like quite a bit. And you have to wonder how much that manicured haircut, brow, and beard cost.
h/t Instapundit
...So here’s my theory: It’s not that these kids don’t have good personalities, it’s that they don’t have fully "woke" personalities. They don’t speak the language of cosmopolitan, secular noblesse oblige that so often takes the form of political correctness ‐ at least not with sufficient fluency. They don’t know the shibboleths that demonstrate they understand what higher education is really for.
Moreover, their inability or unwillingness to care enough about such stuff is an indication of what they want out of college. Perhaps there are a bunch of Asian-immigrant parents out there who would be perfectly happy to have their kids go to Harvard and major in gender theory or some such. But I suspect not.
...COMMENTS
If Harvard lifted its anti-Asian criteria, Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research said the share of Asian students at Harvard would more than double, from 19 percent to 43 percent. But that 43 percent wouldn’t be distributed equally among all courses and disciplines. It would be a boon for computer-science and biology classes, but even more seats would go empty in women’s history or poetry courses. And I can’t help but think that the faculties in the humanities and the softer social sciences have disproportionate sway on the cultural and political assumptions of the school’s administration. They are, after all, the talkers.
Of course, I’m making a sweeping generalization. I have no doubt there are plenty of Asian kids interested in such things, but, as a statistical generalization, I’m sure I am right. I don’t think for a moment that this theory explains the whole phenomena. The question is, how much of the bias against Asians can be explained by the desire of a guild to protect its own racket?
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I was kicked out of the on-campus pub at MIT in 1992. I worked across the street from the camous and after work some of us would go to the pub. A young woman sitting near me said, "Are you from the south?" Dang! My accent gave me away. I said yess and she then asked me what state. I said Alabama. She then asked what I was doing here so I told her working for an engineering company designing and building an oil refinery in Jurong, Singapore. She then asked what school I had attended and I told her Auburn University. She said, "It must not be much of a school, I've never heard of it". I said, "We don't think much of MIT down there ya'll don't even have a football team". She called in to question my intelligence and the status of my parents when I was born and I compared her to a female dog. Her boyfriend stood up very fast, knocked over the table where they were sitting, spilled the beer, broke the glasses and pitcher, and they threw me out.
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Deacon, I suspect there must be other bars where you'd feel more comfortable. But, hey, work on that story and you just might have something...
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#4
Better reasons then my several ejections from taverns (in youth). But, sadly yours doesn't sound fun at all. Yehah!
In Cambridge, our beans are artisanal,
All codfish organic and seasonal;
Here, hybrids work quicker
Than redneck corn likker
And students are always amenable.
#6
Also, I'd have bet my last buck that I couldn't be more disgusted with Boston City Hall (who could?), but I learned the other day (what I don't know about Boston would fill Boston) that the original design included a freakin' bierkeller. Okay, so it's not Scollay Square, but still... alternate autobiographical possibilities abound. Dammit.
[PJ] A new poll shows that a good portion of young people don’t value living in a democracy. The Democracy Project found that of the folks they surveyed, the millennial generation (born in 1982 and the two decades following) and Generation Z (the generation born after millennials) are the least likely to think it’s "absolutely important" to live in a democracy. Fewer than 40 percent of both those generations surveyed value democracy, while nearly 77 percent of those ages 65 and older say it is "absolutely important" to live in a democracy. However, the Democracy Project did find that "the vast majority of the American public wants democracy."
These kinds of statistics, while disheartening, are more and more frequent. A 2016 survey by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that just over half of the millennials surveyed thought communism was a problem at all.
Not only is there a distinct difference between communism and democracy, but there are obvious age differences between the groups that value democracy and those that don’t. Those that value democracy most, folks 65 and older, lived through the aftermath of World War II, watching as Europe recovered from the Nazi attempt to take over. They lived through Vietnam, the collapse of Soviet Russia, and the destruction of the Berlin wall.
Older generations clearly recognize that while communism, socialism, and even fascism might sound good on paper, those philosophies rarely work out in government form very well. Instead of freeing and liberating people, encouraging a free market, and stimulating a high production of goods and services, governments that are not in some way democratic enslave, bind, belittle, and devalue the people who live there ‐ and of course, then, the markets suffer too. (All one need do is look at Venezuela to see how that’s working out.)
Still, the fact that fewer than 40 percent of the young people surveyed who will soon be able to vote, raise families, and be a (hopefully productive) part of society value the very democracy that allows them to thrive is disheartening, to say the least. It’s unfortunate that as teenagers, their civics lessons, history assignments, and even family involvement haven’t taught them that the many things they value most are a product of living in a free market system that values the voice of the people.
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It’s unfortunate that as teenagers, their civics lessons, history assignments, and even family involvement haven’t taught them that the many things they value most are a product of living in a free market system that values the voice of the people.
But not unexpectedly.
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I guess if you don't believe in democracy it's a no-brainer to abstain from voting.
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There is good reason to fear for the future of democracy in this country. Moneyed interests are more often than not successful in buying elections and the MSM goes merrily along without asking the questions that need to be asked. Trump is a moneyed interest in his own right but he's not one of the elites and their attempted coup is a result. If it had succeeded, and it still might, we could witness a new Dark Ages.
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Need to really push the Peace Corps so these kids can see the third world with their own eyes and realize that it's not the west making them poor. Venezuela could use a lot of millennial helping out right now, lets send anyone who claims to be a socialist so they can get a taste before they try to transform the US into their fantasy image.
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Nobody should want democracy. That word is used wrong all the freaking time. Democracy is mob rule. We are not a democracy. We are a representative republic. Big difference.
We're a oligarchy of special interests and tribes. When you have a handful of people sit for life dictating what they believe rather than what the words say, you don't even have a republic.
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.
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[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) told PJM that saving Medicare and Social Security and cutting "excess" federal spending are winning issues for Republicans in the midterm elections.
[American Thinker] The ever so self-important Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein finally came before the House Judiciary Committee today, along with FBI Director Christopher Wray. This particular committee has been on the case for many months with little cooperation from the DOJ or FBI. It has been obvious from the beginning of all this nonsense that the higher-ups in both of these agencies feel themselves to be above the law; way above the law. 
[Breitbart] Friday on ESPN’s "First Take," co-host Stephen A. Smith blasted former MLB star Sammy Sosa over using a skin bleaching cream to become lighter skinned.
