[KTLA] Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem "I Can See Clearly Now," died Tuesday, his son said.
Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. He was 80.
Nash was in his early 30s when "I Can See Clearly Now" topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. In the mid-1950s, he was a teenager covering "Darn That Dream" and other standards, his light tenor likened to the voice of Johnny Mathis. A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped launch the career of his friend Bob Marley.
Nash praised "the vibes of this little island" when speaking of Jamaica, and he was among the first artists to bring reggae to U.S. audiences. He peaked commercially in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he had hits with "Hold Me Tight," "You Got Soul," an early version of Marley’s "Stir It Up" and "I Can See Clearly Now," still his signature song.
Reportedly written by Nash while recovering from cataract surgery, "I Can See Clearly Now" was a story of overcoming hard times that itself raised the spirits of countless listeners, with its swelling pop-reggae groove, promise of a "bright, bright sunshiny day" and Nash’s gospel-styled exclamation midway, "Look straight ahead, nothing but blue skies!", a backing chorus lifting the words into the heavens.
The rock critic Robert Christgau would call the song, which Nash also produced, "2 minutes and 48 seconds of undiluted inspiration."
[MAIL] President Trump apparently has a new ally in his long-running feud with the ‘fake news’ media.
A CNN reporter shooed away a raccoon that was scurrying toward his direction on the North Lawn of the White House just as he was about to go live on the air before dawn on Wednesday.
Alisyn Camerota, the co-host of CNN’s early morning program New Day, posted a hilarious outtake showing Joe Johns visibly irritated by the cunning creature.
‘Get!’ Johns is seen yelling at the menacing raccoon while he prepares to report from the White House.
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Forget about the politics for a moment - the takeaway I get from the few times I tune into CNN or MSNBC is the massive lack of professionalism that oozes from these two channels.
Justice Department's inspector general Michael E. Horowitz's draft report about Trump's separation policy was released
It detailed how Jeff Sessions and other top officials from the Justice Department told AGs to take children no matter how young they were
According to Horowitz, Sessions and other top officials understood that 'zero tolerance' meant separation and could also possibly deter future immigrants
'We need to take away children,' Sessions told the group of AGs
Daily Mail story is based on a report from the New York Times
Denial vs. Reality. Hopefully the lesson sinks in before the election.
No Evil Foods, a "revolutionary" food company that champions progressive values, finds itself in a bitter labor dispute.
With products like Comrade Cluck (a plant meat, not actual chicken), No Evil Foods has had success casting itself as a "revolutionary" food company that embodies progressive values.
But the company is learning marketing progressive ideas is easier than implementing socialist-style economics.
For months, company leaders have been resisting a unionization effort by workers at their Weaverville, North Carolina plant.
"I sincerely believe that right now a union would be a terrible thing for you and for No Evil Foods," Mike Woliansky, the co-founder and CEO of No Evil Foods, told his employees earlier this year. "You could get the same thing you currently have. You could get less than you currently have. I don’t think you need a union voice here."
Woliansky’s words apparently had an impact.
The unionization effort at No Evil Foods, a vegan foods brand whose foods can be found in more than 5,500 retail stores (including Whole Foods), lost. On Feb. 13 employees voted 43-15 against unionizing. But the battle wasn’t over.
Two of the union organizers were later fired, allegedly for violating social distancing and dress policies.
Earlier this month, VICE News reported that the National Labor Relations Board issued a federal complaint saying the claim that the employees were unlawfully terminated had merit, saying No Evil Foods fired the workers because they "assisted a union" and "circulat[ed] a petition seeking hazard pay...for the purposes of mutual aid and protection."
No Evil Foods denied the firings were retaliatory. Workers disagreed, saying the company was not truly progressive.
"They’re pretending they’re allies of leftist causes," Jon Reynolds, an ex-employee of No Evil Foods who was one of the fired workers, told Jacobin.
When Economic Reality Collides With Ideals
It’s possible No Evil Foods employees are right and the revolutionary themes are simply a marketing ploy intended to attract progressive customers. On the other hand, another scenario is possible: Mike Woliansky and fellow No Evil Foods co-founder Sadrah Schadel are deeply progressive but also self-interested humans trying to make a business succeed.
It wouldn’t be the first time economic reality collided with progressive values. Last year Vox Media was forced to cut 200 bloggers at SB Nation after California passed Assembly Bill 5, legislation that forced numerous industries to change the status of workers from freelancers to actual employees.
Some astute observers pointed out that the firings came just a few months after Vox, a progressive media brand, had championed AB5 as a "victory for workers everywhere."
A similar scenario could be at play at No Evil Foods. Woliansky might be someone who is progressive but also realizes unionization could cause serious problems for both his company and workers.
While firing workers in retaliation for organizing is indeed against the law—the 1935 National Labor Relations Act makes it unlawful for employers to retaliate against workers attempting to form unions—there is nothing wrong with attempting to persuade workers that forming a union could harm both the company and their own interests.
One of the ways unions hurt labor is they actually decrease overall wages. Economists have long pointed out that wages are tied to productivity.
As Milton Friedman has observed, in a free market wage growth comes from increased productivity and greater capital investment. Artificially raised wages—either by labor unions or minimum wage—can only come at the expense of other workers who find their opportunities reduced.
"When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers who find their opportunities reduced," Friedman explained.
But reduced employment is not the only cost. As economist George Reisman has observed, labor unions decrease wages because they decrease productivity.
"From the perspective of most of those lucky enough to keep their jobs, the most serious consequence of the unions is the holding down or outright reduction of the productivity of labor. With few exceptions, the labor unions openly combat the rise in the productivity of labor. They do so virtually as a matter of principle. They oppose the introduction of labor-saving machinery on the grounds that it causes unemployment. They oppose competition among workers. As Henry Hazlitt pointed out, they force employers to tolerate featherbedding practices, such as the classic requirement that firemen, whose function was to shovel coal on steam locomotives, be retained on diesel locomotives. They impose make-work schemes, such as requiring that pipe delivered to construction sites with screw thread already on it, have its ends cut off and new screw thread cut on the site. They impose narrow work classifications, and require that specialists be employed at a day’s pay to perform work that others could easily do — for example, requiring the employment of a plasterer to repair the incidental damage done to a wall by an electrician, which the electrician himself could easily repair. To anyone who understands the role of the productivity of labor in raising real wages, it should be obvious that the unions’ policy of combating the rise in the productivity of labor renders them in fact a leading enemy of the rise in real wages. However radical this conclusion may seem, however much at odds it is with the prevailing view of the unions as the leading source of the rise in real wages over the last hundred and fifty years or more, the fact is that in combating the rise in the productivity of labor, the unions actively combat the rise in real wages!"
Are Woliansky and Schadel familiar with the economic theories of Friedman and Reisman? Perhaps not.
But as business owners they likely are keenly aware that raising wages without increasing productivity would result in a loss of workers, less production, and less capital investment.
The Marxist theory of labor rejects all of this, of course. In his seminal work Capital (1867), Marx explained his theory: a commodity’s value can be measured simply by breaking down the number of hours it takes to produce.
If it takes twice as long to produce an iPhone as an Apple Watch, then the iPhone is twice as valuable as the Apple Watch. Hence, the competitive price of an iPhone will be twice that of the Apple Watch, in the long run, regardless of the physical inputs required.
Marx’s labor theory of value was debunked more than a century ago, of course. Yet his ideas live on.
It’s unclear if the leaders of No Evil Foods or their workers would call themselves Marxists, but the showdown has all the marks of the endless struggle Marx saw between the bourgeois and the proletariat.
Unfortunately for the owners of No Evil Foods, they're learning the hard way that socialist principles are as problematic in practice as they are in theory.
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"Comrades, we are the vanguard of the Revolution! You can't expect us to follow its imperatives! At least not until we have achieved full Communism! Which will be any day now! Really!"
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Who's the fourth character in the photo? That's not Comey.
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DNI Ratcliffe
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he's releasing the info
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Indictments concentrated in states along the Mexican border. My first guess is that the targets are organized crime figures from Mexico or from other Latin American countries.
[FoxNews] THE HAGUE, Netherlands A gynecologist who worked at an artificial insemination program at a Dutch hospital fathered at least 17 children using his own sperm without informing the parents, the hospital announced Tuesday.
Gynecologist Jan Wildschut, who has since died, worked at the Sophia Hospital, now known as Isala Hospital, in the eastern city of Zwolle from 1981 through to 1993.
"From a moral perspective, Isala finds it unacceptable that a gynecologist-fertility doctor was both practitioner and sperm donor," the hospital said in a statement. The hospital said that the gynecologist's donor children, who have been confirmed using DNA tests, and his family are in regular contact and have a good relationship with each other.
Authorities have created a DNA profile of the gynecologist so that other children born following fertility treatment at the hospital can check if Wildschut also is their biological father. The case is not the first time a Dutch fertility doctor has been unmasked for using his own sperm to inseminate women.
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Hollyweird has been trying to normalize child love for years.
The fact that now the management of Netflix thought this would be just fine to release shows how they view it in their bubble. They don't understand the regular person's values.
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The GJ must have thought there was enough there to indict them. People don't like when kids are exploited and sexualized. Should hit them with a civil suit as well.
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Looking at P2k's link, looks like anything with a big name is being pushed back at least a year...except Matrix 4 (really? I thought we were done with that, or this some jar jar prequel instead of ultra real matrix land its like Super Mario 16 bit land?).
I'd be getting out of the movie theater business too, especially now that good home theater is affordable, home direct streaming releases will not be uncommon, and certain politicians who will shut down whatever for whatever now.
Activists have put up a massive Hollywood-style "Trump" sign off the 405 freeway in Los Angeles.
The sign was put up sometime overnight between Monday and Tuesday near the Getty Center. The letters are 20 feet tall and a whopping 70 feet long.
The group behind the sign said in a statement provided to the Gateway Pundit that "the idea behind this was two-fold." First, they said that it was a "psychological terror op designed to counter the psychological terror ops that the Democrat-run government of California has been running on its citizenry since the lockdown." Second, it is a sign to other Trump supporters "that there is hope."
Yes, it's real. Near the Getty Center. The @realDonaldTrump sign is about 10' high on the 405N, as spotted by @MarkKonoSky5 pic.twitter.com/7iNdt2JRMk
— Samantha Cortese (@SamanthaCortese) October 6, 2020
"By being on the 405, looming over Westwood and the Getty, we have taken our message right into the belly of the CA progressive beast," the statement read. "It is a signal to all of the war weary citizens here behind enemy lines that they are not forgotten and that there is hope and others like them here in Vichy California."
Trending: "Waste Of Our Tax Dollars"...’Cheers’ Actress Kirstie Alley Says Dems Have Done Nothing But "Devise Ways To Take Trump Down"
WATCH:
Trump supporters erected a massive TRUMP sign in Hollywood California. pic.twitter.com/RFKsfDz9Qa
— Matthew (@WhjteHovse) October 6, 2020
They added that "since Trump’s hospitalization, it’s interpretation may have changed to that of a ’get well’ card, but as Trump rises like a Phoenix from the flames of Hoax-vid 19, we hope the former interpretation is the one that sticks."
How long do you think before the far-left radicals deface and tear down the TRUMP sign?
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From Chesing's link - "This was a life and safety issue because there were concerns about distracted driving," Wonder said.
Funny how the Hollywood sign gets a pass, not to mention all the billboards alongside Los Angeles freeways. Many of those billboard are in fact giant blinking computer screens that are specifically designed to distract. But then, we wouldn't expect Newsom to leave a Trump sign on private property.
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If one chimp can do it, so can another. I am Signacus!
Digital set extension is a common thing in Hollywood nowadays. With a little skill and not much computer power, one could run a disinformation campaign with TRUMP! signs popping up in all sorts of public places. At the very least, you'd keep the powers-that-be spun up.
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Call me when the Hollywood sign is modified to say "Paedowood..."
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#5, was just thinking Sabo hasn't popped up lately.
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If I had the money, I would pay the landowner to put up a "Biden" sign of the same size. Just to see if the authorities would be as quick to take it down. If not, sue them for viewpoint discrimination.
Fortunately, I don't have the money.
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At least three full-size Trump billboards on 1-35 today, between Austin and Dallas. I don't recall seeing any of the opposition signs.
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Hundreds of #Algerians have defied a nationwide ban on protests and taken to the streets of #Algiers to demand democratic change and mark the anniversary of 1988 demonstrations that ushered in reforms#Video by AFP pic.twitter.com/hUlF2Vmv74
[RU Military Station "Star"] His Holiness Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Cyril held a speech in which he criticized modern western secularism.
[YAHOO] The world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, has been returned to the wild on Australia's mainland for the first time in 3,000 years.Actor couple Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky joined conservation groups last month to release 11 of the animals into a wildlife sanctuary in New South Wales, with more releases to follow.
Devils, the size of a small dog and made famous by the fierce Looney Tunes cartoon character known as "Taz", were listed as endangered on the United Nation's Red List in 2008.
It is the "the first time in 3,000 years, or thereabouts, that the Tasmanian Devil has roamed mainland forests and as an apex predator, it's critically important," said Tim Faulkner, president of conservation group Aussie Ark.
Aussie Ark, which has worked on the programme with Global Wildlife Conservation and WildArk, has been breeding young devils and plans to release 20 more next year, and another 20 the following year.
Faulkner said it was a "monumental" moment in rebuilding Australia's ecosystem.
"This release of devils will be the first of many," he said. "We've bred nearly 400 joeys, and we're at the point now that we're able to harvest some to return to the wild."
Hemsworth, best known for playing Thor in Marvel Cinematic Universe films, said: "We've laid some traps to catch the devils, and then we're going to release them out into the wild."
Tasmanian Devils were wiped out from the mainland after being hunted by dingoes, a pack animal, and have been confined to the island state of Tasmania. But numbers there too have dropped since the 1990s due to a facial tumour disease.
Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world and the re-introduction will help re-balance the ecology that was damaged by the introduction of invasive predators, Faulkner said.
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What is the apex predator supposed to eat in order to restore the ecosystem(s)?
Rabbits would be a good start.
But if wild dogs--feral for tens of thousands of years--can drive out, out-eat, and kill the devil, why do they need the devils?
And if wild dogs--mammals are generally smarter than marsupials--can't get a handle on the rabbits, why this?
Nope. We'll see the devils as protected critters who eat your dachshund when it goes out to pee.
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I seen dis movie! The newly-released devils wander into a toxic waste dump and mutate into horrific flesh-hungry monsters. Good times!
An excellent point about what the new apex predators are going to eat. I suspect it will be endangered birds.
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I was waiting for somebody to accuse Cuomo of antisemitism, and then to post this.
Cause he may be an antisemite - but this's not proof. Everybody is tired of these G*d drunk fanatics.
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I believe the Latin term you are looking for is 'decimatio' which would be one out of every ten. A little known but exotic punishment that the Romans used to apply.
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The Roman Legion 'decimation' was hard core: if your unit ran in battle each ten man squad would be given fasces (cudgels) and be tasked to beat one of their own to death or the whole unit would be executed, IIRC. Hard. Core.
Ever since Katrina-ish popular usage has changed the term to replace (*spit*) "wholesale devastation" with decimation. Uneducated newsies popularized this linguistic abortion.
[JPost] - A new report by the Coronavirus Knowledge and Information Center released on Tuesday reveals how pervasive the "COVID Long" phenomenon has become, and said that, according to research, many of those who have recovered from the coronavirus face long-term complications.
The report looked at medical research from all over the world and gave some recommendations for Israel’s medical establishment on how to cope with persistent medical problems of those who have recovered from the virus.
Symptoms of COVID Long can affect even those who had mild cases and who were young and in good health when they first became ill, the report said. These persistent symptoms can have a widespread effect on the patients’ nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as well as on their mental health. I'm not saying the last fact has any connection to "covid sceptics" phenomena. No siree Bob, I don't!
The researchers found that the COVID Long phenomenon was similar to lasting complications of other coronaviruses, such as SARS and MERS. Some of those recovering from these other viruses reported symptoms for years and even permanent complications.
Studies of recovered COVID-19 patients referenced in the report show up to 80% reported persistent and severe fatigue following their recovery, and significant numbers of recovered patients experienced other symptoms as well. These included headaches, sleep disorders, difficulty concentrating, memory issues, problems with daily functioning and ongoing impairment of the senses of taste and odor.
For about 5% of recovered patients, these symptoms can continue for many months, and, although they improve over time for most, the report cautions that recovery may be a long process, with many ups and downs.
In rare cases, patients experienced impairment of the peripheral nervous system following their recovery.
Up to half of recovered patients experience cardiovascular symptoms following their recovery, according to various studies cited in the report. These included arrhythmias and inflammation in the heart muscle, with varying degrees of severity. These cardiovascular symptoms were sometimes found in patients who had no previous history of heart disease.
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Studies of recovered COVID-19 patients referenced in the report show up to 80% reported persistent and severe fatigue following their recovery, and significant numbers of recovered patients experienced other symptoms as well. These included headaches, sleep disorders, difficulty concentrating, memory issues, problems with daily functioning and ongoing impairment of the senses of taste and odor.
SDA Director Derek Tournear said SpaceX “came in with an extremely credible proposal” that leverages the Starlink assembly line,
The Space Development Agency awarded $193.5 million to L3Harris and $149 million to SpaceX to build four satellites each to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The contracts announced Oct. 5 are for the first eight satellites for a potentially much larger constellation of sensor satellites the Space Development Agency is calling Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
The awards mark the first time the U.S. military has announced an order of satellites from SpaceX, which opened a factory in Seattle several years ago to produce thousands of small satellites for its Starlink broadband mega-constellation.
SpaceX’s missile-tracking satellite will be based on its Starlink bus with an OPIR sensor acquired from another supplier, Tournear said. He declined to name the payload provider and SpaceX has not disclosed subcontractors for the project.
L3Harris, according to Tournear, bid a complete satellite with the bus and payload produced in-house.
The optical crosslinks in the Tracking Layer must be compatible with the optical links used in the Transport Layer satellites that Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems are building for the Space Development Agency under contracts awarded in August.
The Transport Layer is the backbone that moves data collected by the sensors to anywhere in the world where the U.S. military needs it.
Tournear said SpaceX “came in with an extremely credible proposal” that leverages its Starlink assembly line.
“The selection is on technical merit but the schedule takes top priority,” he said. “The SDA model is based on leveraging commercial technology. We have leveraged commercial tier 2 suppliers. This is an example of how we are leveraging commercial tier 1 suppliers.”
“We want to show that we can take commoditized commercial components and perform a DoD mission,” said Tournear.
All eight satellites will be launched in 2022 for a demonstration of the Tracking Layer. The next step will be to add 28 more wide field-of-view satellites and one or two “medium field of view” satellites that will be developed by the Missile Defense Agency. The medium field-of-view sensors provide more specific target location data to cue weapons automatically.
Under Tranche 0, a constellation of 20 Transport Layer satellites, eight wide field-of-view and two medium field-of-view OPIR Tracking Layer satellites would be deployed in two planes of 15 satellites each.
StarShip - the next SpaceX launch platform will launch up to 420 StarLink sats at a time. Throw in some other similar ones and you have a shell game like no other!
[MSN] "Marquette will work toward creating a Black Living Learning Community in a residence hall," campus administrators said to the student body in a statement last month, adding that learning communities "bring together students with common majors or common interests."
The school’s black student council started a petition, signed by over 1,500 people on Change.org in July, outlining a list of demands, including asking the university to "publicly recognize and apologize for the traumatic events that Black students experience on campus and the part Marquette has played in contributing to the experiences."
Marquette said in a statement that it plans to "review and revise, as needed, current policies regarding hate speech and racist behaviors to better allow for effective enforcement."
"We — along with other senior university leaders — met with the Black Student Council and other concerned students following the student demonstration," school administrators said after meeting with the black student council. "Their stories made vividly clear that racism — both systemic racism and racist, discriminatory actions — are part of our campus life."
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This crap won't stop until whites demand their own exclusive facilities.
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and one of these morons can run for office in the future and pander to her constituents, saying, 'and that little girl was me'
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Ref #5: Well, the wisdom of mixing students (on any level) from a group with average IQ 80 and average IQ 100 is unclear to me.
No actual "wisdom" is required. Simply slow the run down to the speed of the slowest runner. Once completed, the run can then be heralded as an amazing success. Everyone is a winner. An outstanding tribute to fairness, egalitarianim, and brotherhood.
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No, no, no... segregated lunch counters first! Then water fountains and restrooms. Special section on the bus. Then separate housing like they had on the plantation days...
The term ‘black student council’ should tell you all you need to know.
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I still want the water fountain and / or lunch counter concession(s).
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Diversity is our strength! Remember when that was shoved down our political throats by the smug asshats on the left. How’s that working out for you clueless white libtards. Overwhelming Obama and 8 years of community organizing the federal government and what was remaining of academia has shown what power can be had by acting tribal. As long as one side does and the other is transfixed by a fear of being “racist” their strategy works. The racism overwhelmingly on display in America today isn’t white racism, it’s black.
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Failing brick-n-mortar academies will collapse when online costs no longer support the 'out-of-state' tuition model. Look to state subsidized, homeless rental remedies.
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.
[MAIL] President Trump apparently has a new ally in his long-running feud with the ‘fake news’ media.
Oritur Spes Aeternae (hope springs eternal). 
[FoxNews] THE HAGUE, Netherlands A gynecologist who worked at an artificial insemination program at a Dutch hospital fathered at least 17 children using his own sperm without informing the parents, the hospital announced Tuesday.
[MSN] "Marquette will work toward creating a Black Living Learning Community in a residence hall," campus administrators said to the student body in a statement last month, adding that learning communities "bring together students with common majors or common interests."
/\ They live their lives, I live mine. We're both generally peaceful, satisfied, and reasonably content. 
