[Townhall] Speaking in South Florida to Parkland students and parents earlier this week, House Minority Leader Pelosi called the activists a "blessing to our country," and said that because of their energy on the issue, gun control would be a priority for Democrats should they take back the House in the midterm elections.
"I admire you so much," she said. "You have the purpose, the generosity of spirit. You have the marchers ‐ you have people who will go out there to make a difference ‐ and you just have a relentless, persistent, dissatisfied approach."
But not all parents of Parkland victims are happy with her proclamation.
Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow died this past Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, responded on Twitter, blasting Democrats for failing his daughter and her classmates.
"What/who failed my daughter:
"•Dem policies
"•Dem Sheriff
"•Dem Super intendant
"•Dem school board
“•Dem teachers union
"Now Nancy Pelosi is saying that if the Dems take back the House they will take away guns to honor Parkland victims
[Patheos] Officers from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and forcibly placed her on a plane to New Delhi, India. Sources within the organization state the senator’s recent blood test proved she is part Indian. That was all President Trump needed to sign the executive order shipping Senator Warren back to her people.
"We aren’t tolerating illegals from Mexico, illegals from Narnia, or illegals from India," President Trump tweeted. "So long, Pocahontas!"
Those close to Senator Warren suspected something like this would happen. Longtime friend Andrew Canard warned her not to release the results of her DNA test proving she was part Native American. *"OK, what I actually told her was Release the results when you square off with him in the third Presidential debate on live TV. You get to toss it in his face in front of the nation and laugh in his orange face, Canard quipped. "She didn’t listen, and now she’s flying to the subcontinent."
What experts are noting is no one in America is asking "Can he do that?" anymore. It’s as if everyone in the United States has accepted the idea the presidency is indeed Imperial. Many social scientists believe this is to be expected in a population which believes the Judicial and Legislative branches of government are advisory bodies to the Executive.
Some Democrats are happy Senator Warren is out of the picture. One anonymous Democrat politician stated, "When I heard she was getting ready to run in 2020, I got the same sinking feeling from when John Kerry became the candidate years ago. I don’t want to live through that again."
Meanwhile, Senator Warren is reported to be enjoying her time in the cargo hold of the jumbo jet speeding her to the world’s largest democracy (i.e., India). President Trump was going to give her a ticket in coach, but Republicans noted they didn’t want her irritating other passengers with her shrill voice and uppity vagina.
*In my humble opinion this is one of the reasons why most Democrats don’t stand a chance against Trump. They don’t understand how to maximize their weapons. They keep trying to sell the steak when in all reality people vote on the sizzle. Reality stars like Trump understand that! If Warren becomes the candidate, Trump is going to roll over her. What do you think?
[The Hill] A retired Army general said in an interview Thursday that if anyone can bring the 17-year-long Afghanistan war to an end, it's President Trump.
"Based on his success in dealing with some fairly hard characters ‐ [North Korean leader] Kim Jong [Un], China, some others ‐ if anybody can do it, President Trump can," retired Maj. Gen. Gary Harrell told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton on "Rising."
Harrell, a former Delta Force commander in Afghanistan who retired in 2008 after nearly 35 years in service, also praised Gen. Scott Miller, the top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
"I think President Trump has the right man on the ground in Scott Miller," Harrell said.
Asked his views on how to bring the conflict in Afghanistan to an end, Harrell emphasized the need "to develop a solid line of communication down through General Miller and the envoy, but they need to be able to talk to the Afghan people."
"And try to win them over to where they are not so much focused on doing things the way their great-great-great grandfather did things, and bring them into the modern world a little bit. I don't know that that's easy, and I'm not sure it's doable," he added.
The U.S. currently has around 14,000 troops in Afghanistan as part of its training and advisory efforts as well as various counterterrorism operations.
The U.S.-led coalition has tried to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table through an increase in troops and airstrikes.
[AmericanPartisan] On 2 OCT 2018, Washington Post journalist and middle eastern political activist Jamal Khashoggi went missing after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Some in the course of the last news cycle has alleged this to be a much deeper incident than it appears on the surface; a vanished journalist, murder, international intrigue, a Saudi administration in conflict with Turkey; both jockeying for power in a region bound for widespread war in the coming years. Over a year post-living in exile after being banned from the Kingdom of al Saud, Khashoggi returned to the assumed security of the nation of his familial ancestry while continuing a career of revolutionary praxis through media in the mideast region. Needing a legal certificate of divorce from the Saudi government, Khashoggi felt safe approaching the embassy- in and out, no harm, no foul.
How wrong he was.
Embassies and consulates are nerve centers for declared spooks of a nation. Formal intelligence officers working in a nation must be declared. Journalists, on the other hand, can get placed into positions of unique access and are often conduits for sensitive information. In any country where intelligence operations are being run (and that’s all of them) a nation’s embassy serves as the hot spot for intelligence and in turn, counterintelligence. With Khashoggi, we find an example of split loyalty divided between revolutionary Marxism and a convenient ally found in the politics of revolutionary Islam. Possibly best examining this juxtaposition is his quote from a WaPo piece in late August:
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Too much for my tiny brain to wrap myself around, but it seems like when he was younger he was a terrorist, probably in line with MB. Now as a "journalist", when he is too old to fight, he continues his jihad by advocating that the Middle East needs MB to take over as the dominant political driver so they can get terrorism under control.
I think the only real reason this is still in the news is the Media claimed him as one of their own and they hope it can be used to hurt Trump (even if doing so screws up the middle east).
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"Now as a "journalist", when he is too old to fight, he continues his jihad by advocating that the Middle East needs MB to take over as the dominant political driver so they can get terrorism under control. What am I missing?"
In its history the Muslim Brotherhood has spawned at least a half-dozen terrorist organizations in Egypt alone, and two in Jordan. The Ikhwan itself created in 1942-43 a terrorist element, the so called Special Section, which had within it a 'secret apparatus' whose activities remained most secret. Its reduction has never been admitted. When Morsy took over in Egypt following the Arab Spring he freed the terrorist convicts (who have since led the Islamist movement in the Sinai) and then began to prorogue the political parties. Thus, when Islamists like Khashoggi start talking 'democracy' best to check your wallet.
[RT] That a free press underpins British democracy is an enduring myth that has been allowed to go unchallenged, up there with unicorns and the Loch Ness Monster.
Because if a clutch of right-wing reactionary billionaires owning the bulk of a nation's major newspaper titles and media constitutes a free press, the word 'free' has been stripped and shorn of all meaning.
Yet, while the aforementioned ‐ let's be kind here ‐ 'anomaly' has long been understood by anyone of adult years with the ability to put their underpants on the right way round in the morning, the extent to which the British establishment press and media has been penetrated by intelligence services and acts as a conduit for their agenda is less well known.
That it is less well known remains one of life's great mysteries nonetheless. Scratch your average British journalist and you have yourself a frustrated spook; someone who would be on their toes at the sound of a car door slamming shut in the street, while harbouring fantasies of coming across Vladimir Putin in a dark alley one night and scoring one for the Empire.
Take Con Coughlin, for example, Defence Editor at The Daily Telegraph (more colloquially and accurately known as The Daily Torygraph). Coughlin is a product of a private school production line that has unleashed more knaves on the world than spittle on a dentist's chair. While his outing as an MI6 asset may have been a long time coming, now that it has, it marks yet another nail in the coffin of a media class whose relationship to truth and objectivity belongs in the box marked non-existent.
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Is it GRU rather than FSB? Either way, amusing that RT’s latest genius is so thoroughly exercising his vocabulary in this one, though not his brains. Or hers, as the case may be.
[Hot Air] Donald Trump couldn’t have asked for better timing for a #MAGA victory lap. With his schedule full of midterm-campaign rallies, the president has extolled his record on the economy as a reason for voters to back Republicans and stay the course. The World Economic Forum agrees, vaulting the US to its top spot among competitive economies for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession.
The U.S. is back on top as the most competitive country in the world, regaining the No. 1 spot for the first time since 2008 in an index produced by the World Economic Forum, which said the country could still do better on social issues.
America climbed one place in the rankings of 140 countries, with the top five rounded out by Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and Japan. All five countries’ scores rose from 2017, with the U.S. notching the second-biggest gain after Japan’s.
The top spot hasn’t gone to the U.S. since the financial crisis stalled output and triggered a global economic slowdown.
"Economic recovery is well underway, with the global economy projected to grow almost 4% in 2018 and 2019," said the report, published Tuesday by the organization that produces the Davos conference on global politics and economics.
Trump has long argued that he pulled the US out of the economic doldrums in which Barack Obama arguably left it with the least-dynamic recovery of the post-World War II period. Critics argue that Trump is simply riding the same economic recovery wave that Obama left. This report, however, notes that the US had the biggest improvement in competitiveness over the past year of the nations it rates, improving almost twice as much as second-place Singapore. If nothing else, Trump can claim credit for his policies amplifying growth and competitiveness with those results.
That may just serve as confirmation for Americans, who increasingly perceive that better days have arrives. A CNBC poll published Monday indicates that a blue wave may have stalled in large part because of growing confidence in the economy. In fact, economic confidence hit an 11-year high ‐ a big plus for Trump and Republicans:
RIACE (ITALY) (AFP) via France 24 - The artisan shops in Riace's historic centre are shuttered and its alleyways quiet as locals wait to see what will happen to Italy's world-renowned model of migrant integration.
The mayor of the hilltop hamlet in Calabria was hounded out of town earlier this week for favouring illegal immigration, but Domenico Lucano has vowed to fight on to protect the way of life here.
He will have to do it from afar as he is banned from Riace, once a ghost town before Lucano, 60, opened the door to migrants and asylum-seekers.
"I'm not going to give up. Riace represents an idea which counters barbarism and we'll go on even without state aid," Lucano said in an interview with AFPTV.
Under the programme he started, Riace's abandoned houses were restored, artisan shops were opened and the tourists flocked to see a place where around 400 of its 1,800 inhabitants are foreigners, from Africa to Pakistan and Syria.
But last week the Italian interior ministry ordered the programme shut down after an investigation, which was launched in 2016, uncovered alleged administrative wrongdoing.
[Mercer at WND] Throughout Brett Kavanaugh’s ordeal, Democratic women and their house-trained houseboys had attempted to derail the decent part of the process, rendering a U.S. Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearing a small-minded, mean-spirited, undignified and gossipy affair.
In tenor, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing resembled a tabloid, a woman’s magazine, or the female-dominated, Trump-watch panels, assembled daily by the Fake News networks.
As to the women folk in the Gallery: They were plain gaga. These libertine "ladies" appeared constitutionally incapable of abiding by standards of decency and decorum, as demanded in such a solemn setting.
Thank our lucky stars we must that Democratic distaff are not yet disrobing, as do their Russian heroines:
Pussy Riot, the Putin-hating, all-girl pop band, specializes in desecrating holy places and flashing holey places.
This kind of abandon, albeit moderated, extended to liberal lady senators. Sen. Kamala Harris and her soul sisters in the Senate conducted themselves like kids who can’t quit interrupting the grownups, nagging for license to break protocol, so as to harangue and harass the "bad" man in the chair.
On the day the Democrats lost ‐ and Kavanaugh won his seat on the high court ‐ a primal, collective, atavistic howl rose from the Senate Gallery’s female quorum.
In response, a journalist in attendance quipped that this is "what the left sounds like." He ought to have stated the obvious. Sure, there are a few male eunuchs among these girls gone wild. But this is predominantly what women of the left sound like.
[Wash Times] Radio host Rush Limbaugh is confident that the unreliability of political polling will be highlighted once again once the midterm election results roll in.
A preview for "El Rushbo’s" Thursday interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity offers a prediction from the famous conservative: Republicans will hold onto the House and Senate in large part because of political developments over the past month.
The radio host noted the confirmation process of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as a key motivator for Republicans.
"The Democrat Party deserves to lose in the single biggest landslide defeat in my lifetime just for the actions they’ve taken in the last month," he said in promotional material shared by Fox News Insider.
Mr. Limbaugh said that he doesn’t have survey data to back up his claims but instead is relying on historical instances where professional pollsters wound up looking clueless.
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Like the media, the pollsters - polltroons? - never get called out for just making stuff up. But then polling outfits, lamestream media and lackademia are all joined at the hip.
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...but instead is relying on historical instances where professional pollsters wound up looking clueless.
Just look at 2016 - Brexit and Trump's campaign were both 'missed' by the pollsters by a combination of a) oversampling Europhiles / Londoners and Democrats and b) ignoring / downplaying the other side. Bookmakers and betting sites give a more accurate picture than these assholes. After those two polling 'fiascoes' (their excuse), there's no doubt in my mind that stuff was deliberate and will be again.
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We never participate in polling of any kind, and we are highly conservative voters. I suspect a disproportionate number of conservatives are as zealously private about their opinions. I think this attitude plus the squishy independants who say what they think makes the pollster happy on the leading style question explains 5-7% inherent polling error.
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Every state-wide or local poll shows Republicans ahead. National polls show Democrats ahead. Now why would any pollster show a national poll in a midterm except to deceive folks regarding popular vote totals.
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On the bright side, if the Dems end up with a razor thin majority in the house, the Senate being solid republican will stop them from doing anything major in terms of legislation.
Senate will still hold the aces: judges, and ultimate stopping power of anything the Dems sen over to them.
So what will the Dems do with Pelosi in charge of the house again? Try to impeach Trump? Try to impeach Kavanaugh? Senate would hold the trials, and they'd have enough defectors to where they couldn't pass the articles of impeachment anyway. And if the government gets shut down, this isnt your old spineless GOP - Trump will pull a Reagan and bypass the press and lay the blame loudly and squarely on Pelosi and the obstructionist Democrats.
So if they win - they lose because they will never be radical enough for their hard left party, who will get pissed off in 2020, they will be played by Trump as "Do Nothing Democrats" setting them up for his fall-guy for the campaign in 2020, making Pelosi and the hard left a oat anchor for whoever the Dems nominate.
Id rather the GOP keep the house, but if they don't, its likely to work out OK for 2020.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An old Christian Lebanese political group, the Lady of the Mountain Gathering, wanted to hold a meeting in the Bristol Hotel or Rotana Hotel in Beirut to discuss the Lebanese political situation in light of the severe crisis stemming from the difficulty in the formation of a new government following the elections.
They also wanted to discuss the poor economic conditions of the country and the prevailing corruption and various conflicts within the state administration. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the management of both hotels refused to give permission for convening of the meeting.
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[The Federalist] This week, Harvard University went to trial over the claim it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. Affirmative action moved back onto the main stage of American politics, particularly as this is an issue where replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy with Justice Brett Kavanaugh could make a difference at the Supreme Court. Yet the political discussion of this hot-button issue again proceeds with little recognition of a basic fact: racial preferences in college admissions are wildly unpopular.
Eighty-five percent of Americans oppose considering race in the college admissions process, according to "Hidden Tribes," a recent report from the left-of-center group More in Common. Of the seven "tribes" identified in the report, racial preferences were supported only by progressive activists, the furthest-left 8 percent of Americans. Ironically, progressive activists are almost the least diverse of the tribes, except the furthest-right 6 percent.
Only 40 percent of progressive activists oppose racial preferences in college admissions. But among traditional liberals (a group comprising 11 percent of Americans), 72 percent oppose racial preferences. Passive liberals (15 percent), who have more African-Americans, women, and younger people than average, are several points even less supportive.
Nor is the "Hidden Tribes" polling an outlier. In September, public television’s WGBH published a poll finding 72 percent of adults disagreed with prior Supreme Court rulings allowing colleges to consider race in making admissions decisions. Indeed, racial preferences were disapproved by majorities of black, Hispanic, and Asian respondents in the survey.
As the disapproval from minority groups suggests, the rejection of the policy does not appear to be solely the product of prejudice. In the WGBH poll, 86 percent of respondents opined that campus diversity is at least a somewhat important goal. Similarly, in the "Hidden Tribes" polling, 81 percent of Americans believe there are serious problems of racism in the country, with 75 percent agreeing that acts of racism are at least somewhat common.
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...but, but, but think of all the administrative positions that are threatened by any action to end race based admissions. Then think of the departments that generate those SJW degrees required of those administrators. "Gentlemen, We've Got to Protect Our Phony Baloney Jobs!"
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Make it all color/gender blind. Age, GPA, and extracurriculars (which would be worded so as not to reveal the sport, which could give a clue to the gender).
Mike
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Patheos] Officers from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and forcibly placed her on a plane to New Delhi, India. Sources within the organization state the senator’s recent blood test proved she is part Indian. That was all President Trump needed to sign the executive order shipping Senator Warren back to her people.
[RT] That a free press underpins British democracy is an enduring myth that has been allowed to go unchallenged, up there with unicorns and the Loch Ness Monster.
[Hot Air] Donald Trump couldn’t have asked for better timing for a #MAGA victory lap. With his schedule full of midterm-campaign rallies, the president has extolled his record on the economy as a reason for voters to back Republicans and stay the course. The World Economic Forum agrees, vaulting the US to its top spot among competitive economies for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession.
RIACE (ITALY) (AFP) via France 24 - The artisan shops in Riace's historic centre are shuttered and its alleyways quiet as locals wait to see what will happen to Italy's world-renowned model of migrant integration.
