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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hannity Attacks Biden With ‘Crime Family' Conspiracy Theory Graphic Featuring NYT, CNN, Schiff, and Sanders
[MEDIAite] Fox News primetime host and Donald Trump confidant Sean Hannity lashed out at former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, absurdly implying that the pair sat at the head of a wide-ranging "crime family" conspiracy that involved seven different news organizations, two other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, as well as House Intel Chair Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Over the years, Hannity has developed a reputation for floating outrageous ‐ and outrageously complex ‐ conspiracy theories about supposed Democratic and mainstream media perfidy. During his Monday night show, just hours after he was named in impeachment testimony, Hannity again dusted off his red-string-on-corkboard conspiracy theory graphic that he has previously used to smear Bill and Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
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#1  MEDIAite - "Nothing to see here, move along. Who are you going to believe - me or your lyin eyes?"
Posted by: Warthog || 11/05/2019 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Shitshow Part 171
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Must've hit pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?
Posted by: Han Solo || 11/05/2019 11:21 Comments || Top||


New Filing in Flynn Prosecution Casts Further Doubt on the Government's Case
[American Greatness] ichael Flynn’s attorney filed a response Monday to the federal government’s defense against several shocking claims of misconduct. Attorney Sidney Powell alleged in an earlier filing that federal prosecutors, led by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller alumnus Brandon Van Grack, hid or destroyed evidence and used an edited account of Flynn’s statement as a basis for charging the former national security advisor with lying to the FBI.

Powell inferred that an earlier version of Flynn’s statement, as recorded by the interviewing agents, was suppressed or destroyed. She writes,

It is no excuse that the original Flynn 302 is not ’in the possession of’ Mr. Van Grack at this moment. It is in the FBI’s system, or can be retrieved, along with the audit trail, the A1 files, information about any attempt made to destroy it, and all the metadata for the changes which are more important now than ever in light of the absurdity of the government’s Surreply. Tellingly, Mr. Van Grack does not deny that such information is, in fact, available.

Powell also noted that FBI attorney Lisa Page and Bill Priestrap, who was the FBI’s assistant director of investigation and counterintelligence, edited Flynn’s statement after the interview, even though neither was present during the questioning.

Powell also cited the testimony of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who talked to the FBI agents immediately after they interviewed Flynn. McCabe testified to the House Intelligence Committee, "[T]he conundrum that we faced on their return from the interview is that although [the agents] didn’t detect deception in the statements that he made in the interview . . . the statements were inconsistent with our understanding of the conversation that he had actually had with the ambassador."

McCabe proceeded to admit to the committee that "the two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying, [which] was not [a] great beginning of a false statement case."
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#1  "[T]he conundrum that we faced on their return from the interview is that although [the agents] didn’t detect deception in the statements that he made in the interview . . . the statements were inconsistent with our understanding of the conversation that he had actually had with the ambassador the case we were trying to make against him."

Ain't that a little more like it, Andy?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/05/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
CN Traveler - Room With A View (18 enjoyable fotos)
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2019 grads who majored in STEM now boast the best starting salaries
[The College Fix] My 11-year-old daughter was recently asked by her school to judge her strengths and weaknesses as a student. One of her self-admitted weaknesses is her sloppy handwriting. The survey asked her about room for improvement, and her answer was both humorous and telling: "It doesn’t matter because we live in a digital age."

How true.

I am child of the 80s and 90s. I came of age at a time when cell phones and the World Wide Web were just ideas and computers were starting to become a thing. I actually recall writing stories in fourth grade on a typewriter ‐ a typewriter!

Today, my daughter is surrounded by and immersed in technology in many ways, both educationally and for recreation ‐ and for better or worse.

But when we discuss college I can’t help but emphasize to her, if she is going to major in anything, it mind as well be in STEM, a.k.a. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

She wants to be a novelist, and I told her that’s fine, that’s great, that’s wonderful. Write on the side until you get published, and in the meantime, invest in a college education that can actually pay off and provide a real job until you’re the next Stephen King.

I was reminded of this conversation as a recent press release crossed my desk (wait, scratch that ‐ crossed my inbox I mean), subject line: "Preliminary Salaries Show STEM Majors Lead Class of 2019."

The results of the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Fall 2019 salary survey show that "at this early juncture, graduates in the computer and information sciences ($81,292), engineering ($69,180), mathematics and statistics ($68,785), and engineering technologies ($60,473) disciplines are leading the Class of 2019 in terms of average starting salary."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2019 03:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

Is there any other pursuits besides Medicine and Agriculture that a state university system needs to offer that can not be done by private colleges?

Farm teams for professional sports and departments created for students who 'earn' a worthless degree in studies sold by said universities do not come to mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2019 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Higher salaries are obviously racist and sexist.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/05/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry but this is wrong-headed. If you can't write clearly--I'm not referring to handwriting but to the expression of ideas in clear and compelling prose--then you will be hard-pressed to think clearly. STEM is not enough. Logic is expressed in language.

A society that is badly trained in the humanities would be like the early 19c Union Army and its STEM-lopsided leadership in the era preceding those great writers and clear thinkers, Lincoln and Grant: numerate, scientifically literate, and incompetent.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Much of the blame for our society's current confusion and shitty political class can be attributed to the demise of the humanities over the last 40 years. Sloppy thinking, shitty values: these are precisely those flaws which a proper humanities education will correct.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  And here I thought it would be Gender Studies....
Posted by: Warthog || 11/05/2019 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm with Lex. There is also an underlying connexion between legible, appealing script or even typed communication, and the confidence which comes from a well adjusted psyche. I don't mean grandiose loops and swirls of royal blue on scented paper, or tiny dots on the 'i's and perfectly oval 'O's. Just an understandable script, with clear words that convey clear ideas.

My two cents.

I believe a conscious attempt to not improve illegible handwriting is simply the sign of an illegible conscience. Warped, confused and liable to be swayed by assertive people. A schmuck. While I can't blame an 11 year old kid for an easy out like that, an adolescent who fails to develop a legible hand in the modern world would be somewhat of a schmuck. And so would be a parent or teacher for not correcting that.

And STEM is also not for schmucks.

When we learn to write, we also learn to control the flow of our thoughts, the ink on paper a veritable parallel for the actual conversation occurring within. Graphologists and neurobiologists have proved that consciously altering one's handwriting can actually improve the neuronal connectivity for certain intellectual activity. Also proved is the retardation of neuronal connectivity with increased reliance on 'assists' like grammar-check and auto-correct. Our current generation of cut-paste, newspeak adept journalists is a product of just that. There is no music to their thoughts, no conviction. Just a cacophony of impatient urges and exultation of foolish pride.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/05/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  I blame post modernism for at least part of the chaos. STEM is valued because it put emphasis on finding the RIGHT answer, not just your answer.
Posted by: SR-71 || 11/05/2019 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8  I expect the next generation will be using voice recognition software. Funny thing, I recall H. Beam Piper's Null-ABC(1953)(free ePub link) where being literate was subversive...
Posted by: magpie || 11/05/2019 13:31 Comments || Top||

#9  It's been a long road from glyph to letter.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
VDH: The Military-Intelligence Complex
A taste of Professor Hanson at length. As always, he is well worth setting aside the time to read in full.
[AmGreatness] Many retired high-ranking military officers have gone beyond legitimately articulating why President Trump may be wrong on foreign policy, and now feel free to smear him personally or speak openly of removing their commander-in-chief from office. And the media and the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment are with them every step of the way.

Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump’s agenda. The choice of the noun "Resistance," of course, conjures up not mere "opposition," but is meant to evoke the French "resistance" of World War II‐in the melodramatic sense of current loyal progressive patriots doing their best to thwart by almost any means necessary the Nazi-like Trump.
Hezbollah and Hamas also regularly refer to themselves as the Resistance®, probably for the same reasons. Try and think of somebody more Nazi-like. Note that Pakistain, what every civilized nation aspires to be, is currently in the throes of Resistance; Maulana Fazl and his yellow-suited Stürmabteilung have given the legally elected prime minister (admittedly a dipshit) 48 hours to get out of Dodge. Iran gets by on its Resistance to The Great Satan. Meanwhile, its satrapies, Iraq and Leb, are Resisting the hated Medes and Persians.
We know from a variety of disinterested watchdog institutions and foundations that the media has offered 90 percent negative coverage of the Trump Administration. CNN in its anti-Trump zeal has ruined its brand by serial fabrications and firings of its marquee biased reporters.
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#1  One of the brilliant minds of our time clearly articulates the issue while most in Washington illustrate indifference or assist the plot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2019 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Those who believe they exist to be the world's policeman and those who don't. When the 22 trillion plus debt arrives, there won't be any money for endlessly defending global governance let alone America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2019 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Yup. The elected government is not in control. The permanent government - deep state - is fighting tooth and nail to overcome the #1 enemy, the American people.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/05/2019 12:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Kelleigh Nelson - America's Democrats Bow to Chinese and Soviet Marxism
[News with Views] We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. ‐Mao Zedong

The goal of socialism is communism. ‐Vladimir Lenin

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. ‐Mao Zedong

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. ‐Vladimir Lenin

Voltaire, who died in 1778 in France said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." And just who rules over us? Despite our populist President and Republican Senate majority, it appears as though the Democratic Socialists are running the country and have been for nearly a century.

Sometimes a seemingly innocuous situation can demonstrate to the world where many corporations’ true values lie, especially when they kowtow to Communist China’s big stick. Even the NBA has shown its colors in bowing to the Reds. Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, sparked backlash in China after tweeting support for the protests in Hong Kong. He was immediately excoriated by Lebron James and others who knelt to Communist China over American freedoms, all for the love of money.

While Hong Kong fights for freedom from mainland China, America’s youth rally behind the communist Democratic candidates believing that utopia exists for everyone with socialism.

Comments from my previous article regarding the 1941 Lend Lease Act attest that some older Americans understand the extent of Soviet/Marxist espionage within our country. A Vietnam veteran wrote this:
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#1  Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. ‐Vladimir Lenin

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CNN's John Berman Absolutely Blasts Rand Paul's ‘Cowardly' Call to Out the Whistleblower: ‘He is a Small Man'
[MEDIAite] It would be too nice to say that CNN New Day anchors Alisyn Camerota and John Berman pointed and laughed at Senator Rand Paul Tuesday morning. More apt descriptions might be ridiculed, belittled or, better yet, cut down to size.

At issue was the Kentucky Senator’s calling out the media to out the identity of the whistleblower whose complaint launched the impeachment inquiry that currently presents an existential threat to President Donald Trump’s time in the White House. During the Monday night Trump rally in his home state of Kentucky, Senator Paul challenged the press by saying " I say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name."

Thing is, the Whistleblower Statued passed in 1989 protects the identity of the individual at the center of the current controversy, and to out the person and print his or her name, is against the law. This argument was made by Camerota as she tossed to CNN Contributor, and former Clinton Press Secretary, Joe Lockhart.

"He’s trying to get us to do his dirty work and say the name of the whistle-blower, which is illegal," Camerota said, adding later "If he knows it, why doesn’t he say it? I’ll tell you why he doesn’t say it. Don’t answer that. Because it’s illegal, and he knows that."

But it was Berman who took the mockery/condemnation to another level as he jumped in to make his point.
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#1  Who is John Berman?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/05/2019 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  John Berman is an American news anchor, currently the co-anchor of CNN's New Day with Alisyn Camerota on CNN, and a regular relief presenter of Anderson Cooper 360°.
One of the Elite:
Education:Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts
Alma mater:Harvard University, graduated summa cum laude, where he was president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Berman is of Sephardic Jewish descent.

No known degree. Sources - CNN Profile and Wikipedia,
Posted by: Bobby || 11/05/2019 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ In other words, just an all-around nice guy ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2019 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  All-around nice guy? Whew, what a relief, I thought maybe he was another crackpot like Brian Stelter or Don Lemon (cynical).
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/05/2019 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  In this country, you have a right to face your accuser.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/05/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  He is not protected under the Whisteblower Statue if he went to the Schiff staff before the IGIC. His anonminity was blown then.
Posted by: Thulet Bonaparte2840 || 11/05/2019 11:39 Comments || Top||

#7  The Stasi protected their informants. Anonymously turn gossip into "denouncing an enemy of the state™", but remember to only denounce someone the state wants to denounce.
Posted by: magpie || 11/05/2019 15:04 Comments || Top||


Steve Bannon: 'Joe Biden Is The Hand Grenade And Hunter Is The Pin' To Blow Up Dem Establishment
[Real Clear Politics] Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon talks Republican resistance to House Democrats' impeachment push, and who he thinks should testify in the public inquiry.

"If Schiff stands there and argues Joe Biden is above the law, Hunter Biden is above the law. The Bidens have to be called. Joe Biden is the hand grenade and Hunter Biden is the pin. And when that pin gets pulled the shrapnel is going to blow back all over the Democratic establishment," Bannon told FNC's Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."
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Step Off Kamala. You're Stinking Up The Clown Car
[Diogenes Middle Finger] It looks like we've reached the "can we pull this bi*** outta the fire" stage of the nasally Voodoo Witch's run for president. Stories out during the week described a cratering Harris campaign slashing staff and cutting salaries like the final days of Blockbuster. Her contributions slowing and poll numbers in free fall, she's polling just slightly ahead of Tree Fungus and Spartacus Booker. No one has ever accused her of being an awesome Senator or even a likable person. And the angry black woman in Manolo Blahnik shoes act is not playing well in middle America, black or white.

Still, Harris is putting the whole tamale into Iowa. She plans to spend Thanksgiving there. Barky Obama might've inadvertently set a precedent that black candidates must win the Iowa caucus to prove white people will vote for them. But her problem is not that she's black, she's not. It's that she's from f**ing California and has overly championed LGBTQ and illegals, both problem issues for black primary voters, and most swing state voters. She actually thought she could appeal to clueless suburban soccer moms at the same time fanning the flames of racial resentment with talk of reparations and pretending to be down with the struggle.

She's been on a roll lately, showing a true lack of leadership and personal pettiness when she boycotted a criminal justice reform forum at Benedict College after she learned the organizers gave an award to DJT. She also vocally defended Katie Hill, treating her as the victim of revenge porn and not just the kooky star in a sex farce. She was the only Democratic presidential candidate to have Hill's back. And yes, she got her Kamala on while questioning during some of the worst SOTUS confirmation hearings ever, but due to her junior status, her questions came near the end when most people stopped paying attention.

I'm sure her lack of electablity has nothing to do with the Creepy Voodoo Witch persona she sometimes projects. Maybe it just hasn't hit her yet that most American people don’t care for her proposed commie policies, taking away the American's health care provider choices, guns and wealth, making the nation into a third-world socialist state based on coercion, state sponsored theft, abrogation of the Constitution, hate and fear. But Kamala believes the only reasons she’s losing (even in her liberal home state) is because the country isn’t ready for a black female President. That’s not true. We had 8 years of Obama.
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#1  the country isn’t ready for a black female President. That’s not true. We had 8 years of Obama

LOL
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2019 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  ha. Another zinger: angry black woman in Manolo Blahnik shoes act

That's her. A part-time Pacific Heights socialite and full-time ho.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 11:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Had to read it all the way through for that punch line at the end. But it was worth it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/05/2019 12:12 Comments || Top||


Katie Hill Affair and its Aftermath are Signs of America’s Decline
[AMERICANTHINKER]
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#1  The word is decadence.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  OK. I'm taking the contrarian stance. I don't care who she screws (as long as it doesn't involve kids or the livestock).

In addition, I support a Constitutional Amendment that requires all candidates for public office to display full frontal and side shot nude pictures on their campaign literature. This will (a) dissuade disgusting people like Schiff and Pelosi from running and (b) allow you to select attractive gov't officials for when their private selfies are inevitably released to the wild. (Sorry Mitch, you gotta go).
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/05/2019 11:21 Comments || Top||

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#4  The problem I have with this POS is her slander of Kavanaugh. That's how she got elected, recall: by telling lies about an honorable man.

We have an epidemic of slander, lies, and defamation in this country.

It's very difficult to win a libel action. Justice Kavanaugh has no recourse. The road to vindication for Nick Sandmann will be long and painful. Millions of other, less famous Americans are facing these Gestapo tactics every day in their neighborhoods and their workplace.

The only way to keep this epidemic from destroying us to bring down the slanderers wherever and whenever we can.

Hence the urgent need to denounce Katie Hill as an opportunistic creep who took advantage of the Kavanaugh Shitshow, and then took advantage of her paid employee.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, the dressed girl, has this look
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2019 12:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Lex__

Clarification: I agree with you. Her political scumliness is reason to sh*tcan her. Her sex life is just that - hers.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/05/2019 12:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Agreed. Not my concern whose carpet is munched.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 12:57 Comments || Top||

#8  There's actually so much wrong with this picture. And the fact there is a picture. Personal lives of the powerful is one thing, but this gives the impression of a sick mind. And a sick official is understandably very corruptible. I'm no prude myself and don't mind orgies in the room next to me, but the people who vote and pay taxes deserve better than what can be seen here. Especially after the Justice Brett thingy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/05/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

#9  There's actually so much wrong with this picture. And the fact there is a picture. Personal lives of the powerful is one thing, but this gives the impression of a sick mind. And a sick official is understandably very corruptible. I'm no prude myself and don't mind orgies in the room next to me, but the people who vote and pay taxes deserve better than what can be seen here. Especially after the Justice Brett thingy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/05/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

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#11  I don't agree that Katie Hill is a sign of America's decline. Katie Hill is in decline and did get shitcanned. It is not so much that America is in deline but the left and its culture. How much does the left represent America?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/05/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#12  ....zero, zilch, nada.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#13  I mean the people who run our political institutions and our communications & cultural institutions, including our schools and universities, the media, and entertainment industries.

They're the decadent ones who have no attachment to our heritage or even to common sense.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 16:29 Comments || Top||

#14  Her sex life is just that - hers.

Not when she sleeps with an employee.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2019 16:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Lloyd Marcus - Young Adults Fed Up With SJW And LGBTQ Tyranny
[News with Views] The new Batwoman TV series featuring an openly lesbian Batwoman is failing big-time. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that young adults are turned off by the show’s extreme woke and SJW (social justice warrior) politically correct messaging. "Woke" means you are aware of social and racial injustice. "Woke" also means straight white men are the source of all evil and must be punished. Women and minorities are perfect in every way. Woke culture says anyone who dares criticize a woman or a minority hates women and minorities.

Batman fans are outraged over the new Batwoman TV series trashing Batman and its in-your-face trashing of men. If there were such a thing as a woke-a-meter with a range of 1-10, the new Batwoman TV series would receive an 11.

It was a pleasure to learn that young adults are fed-up with SJW Hollywood writers and producers destroying their favorite movie franchises. The 2016 Ghostbusters movie bombed, losing $70 million, infected with woke. SJW has infected Star Wars and various superhero movies. Angry fans say, "Get woke, go broke!" Hollywood has declared that SJW, diversity and gender-swapping in movies is more important than entertaining stories.

Critics rave about movies that check all the right SJW boxes; must praise homosexuality, women and minorities while trashing straight white men. Meanwhile, fans avoid such movies in droves.

It blows my mind that despite losing mega-millions Hollywood is undeterred, hellbent on cramming SJW political messaging down our throats. As a Christian, I believe a spirit of anti-Christ is driving Hollywood’s financially illogical behavior. Hollywood producers love to poke fun of and demonize Christians. They freely use Jesus’ name in vain. And yet, they would never dare to use Muhammad’s name in vain.

In response to the failure of the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, the filmmakers attacked the fans, calling them woman-hating trolls. The star of the Batwoman TV series, Ruby Rose, attacked viewers for the show’s plummeting ratings. Rose said the show is not for old white men.

Clearly, Hollywood’s SJW writers and producers have disdain for average Americans. Loyal fans of various movie franchises say they feel crapped upon. Ignoring fan’s rejection, Hollywood pushes full-speed ahead on creating a new America in which wholesome traditions, biblical principles and values are burned on the alter in worship to their god of debauchery.
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#1  IMO, it's not the message - ti's the fact that there's nothing but the message.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/05/2019 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Hmmm ... dangerous to hold up the many-headed Consumer beast as some kind of jury or other democratic verdict on Wokeness. Lots of evidence to be had that there is indeed a large market for virtue-signaling garbage. Look at Nike's stock post-Kaepernick ads and other weaselly stunts.

Woke does sell. Decades of indoctrination by schools and the media have conditioned most Americans to believe their country is a sinkhole of racism, bigotry and oppression have achieved their intended goal.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Was there really a large fan base for Batwoman or did they hope Batman fans would tune in?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/05/2019 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Likely counting on overseas $ which is where Nike made their dough post Kapernick
Posted by: Warthog || 11/05/2019 10:23 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ that's easy to verify. Someone should compare their domestic and international revenues before and after Kaepernick ads to see if there's any merit to that argument. Perhaps you're right but I doubt it.
Posted by: Lex || 11/05/2019 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Was there really a large fan base for Batwoman or did they hope Batman fans would tune in?

Perhaps among old geezers and aging l3sb1ans that still remember Julie Newmar.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/05/2019 11:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Augh ! They shot the terminator to shit. Shit !

The SKYNET of the first two Terminator films was a projection of the cold war angst, and a depiction of the harsh, almost hydraulically actuated bureaucracies growing too powerful under rampant systematization.

If you notice, the increased malleability and polymorphous ductility of the current fictive robot is a projection of hollywood angst about changing sexual roles and gender associations. The concept of SKYNET as a viable enemy is rendered quite useless as the AI revolution never delivered anything beyond toy dogs and roomba®.

The real enemy shown in the film are now ICE agents and the stupidity of law enforcement and governments when the 'survival of the human race may depend any day now on an illegal immigrant !'
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/05/2019 11:23 Comments || Top||

#9  So full of advice was Ms. Rose,
Confused to the tips of her toes,
But sure of her station:
A model creation
Fixated above her own nose.
Posted by: Elmomp Lumumba6316 || 11/05/2019 19:01 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Elmomp Lumumba6316 || 11/05/2019 19:10 Comments || Top||


Shutting Off Feedback or How We Got Into This Fine Mess
[AccordingToHoyt] One of the things I loved about biology was the concept of feedback. If you get too much inventivium in your blood system, your science fictioning gland shuts down so you don’t get too far from reality. (What, you don’t have those? Really?)

...Well, now I think about it, most feedback is annoying.

Economics is full of it ‐ as are other economic systems ‐ and humans find it so annoying they have devised various means of shutting it down, and then become puzzled and do crazy stuff when the system goes out of control.

Take price controls. They deliberately shut down feedback. The idea is "people need to eat and the essentials should be cheap." We went tons of rounds on this in the seventies in Portugal. It was FUN ‐ not ‐ and responsible for empty grocery shelves and problems getting the essentials. Because when cooking oil was dirty cheap by price control, everyone who had ridden this pony before (with bread, with toilet paper, with...) would buy everything in the grocery shelves. Meanwhile, because it was impossible for merchants to make a profit on the thing, they didn’t stock it. Which was okay, because the factories that made it couldn’t afford to at that price, so they stopped. And all the way down the line.

This is because what the idiot politicians were shutting down was the feedback. Prices are many things ‐ and sometimes annoying when you really want a good pair of noise-cancelling headphones but your bank account is crying, to use a totally random example ‐ but MOSTLY? They’re information. They’re feedback.

Because, yes, people work for profit, and profit ‐ things that Warren and Sanders will never get ‐ is not dirty, it’s what people live on, when prices go up ‐ meaning there’s more demand than supply ‐ people go "hey, you can make a profit in this" and start making more, until the supply and demand match, and you can’t make as much money, so people wander off to do other stuff.

...But it is not just in economics (though eh, everything is a branch of economics, as my reading in my 30s informed me. Which means that’s probably when I started going insane) that humans love shutting down feedback.

The truth is we don’t like reality very much, and are more or less perpetually at war with it.

We have this image of how things should be, and because we imagine it so clearly we think it’s a moral imperative.

Which brings us to how we got into a fine mess, in publishing, in universities, in... everything affected by the long march.

The long march looks cunning, and it was. And for some people it was a conscious plan. But here’s the thing, it’s also a process that goes automatically when a large enough group of humans in a nation or a field share an image of what’s "ideal". In other words, in theocracies, the shut down of feedback from reality, and the ramping up of bringing in other true believers is standard, and intensifies as it goes.

This is not a thing of the left, btw. Every human institution, given the power to do it, shuts off feedback they don’t like.

This is why large corporations who can do so buy monopolistic status from governments (in various ways) and then stop heeding reality and go insane. Which is why large and powerful enough corporations become indistinguishable from totalitarian states. And also why, no matter how much influence they have on government, they eventually crumble and fall apart.

...The thing is that once you shut off feedback, the insanity is self-feeding. And if you’re invested in it, you can’t admit it.

Also that once you shut off feedback pushing your favorite view becomes THE thing. Hence not just publishing going hard left, but the universities following, and the utter crazy of corporations (I’m looking at you Gillette) rolling left to die is all part of "there are no other standards, everyone agrees with us. We must preach the truth(y) word from on high, because we’re doing good in the world, and it shows how good we are" missionary effort of a religion without an afterlife and with no concept of forgiveness. Oh, and no contact with reality.

Sooner or later, feedback wins.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2019 07:29 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  (What, you don’t have those? Really?)

Denizens of one lesser branch from the evolutionary tree.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/05/2019 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Could go a step further with this thesis. In engineering, negative feedback controls change from going too far in one direction. Positive feedback, however, forces the system out of control.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/05/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Problem is, it can take a LONG time for feedback to win. And in the meantime it can destroy whole countries. Venezuela still isn't through the process.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/05/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||


Government
While you were focused on Impeachment, Trump continued to transform the federal judiciary
h/t Instapundit
[LegalInsurrection] No matter what the current news cycle obsession, Trump judicial nominees continue to be confirmed and Trump continues to transform the federal judiciary.

  • While you were focused on COMEY, Trump nominated another group of CONSERVATIVE Judges (June 7, 2017)

  • While you were focused on ... Republicans kept moving judicial nominees through pipeline (February 18,2018)

  • While you were distracted by [insert news cycle], Trump continued to reshape the federal judiciary (May 19, 2019)

  • While you were watching the Democrat debates, Mitch McConnell rammed through more judges (August 1, 2019)

And it continues with the media obsessed on Ukraine and Impeachment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/05/2019 03:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We need one more Supreme Court justice...
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Washington Compost's Fareed Zakaria on 'the west's deeply embedded racial hierarchy'
[Barely a blog] In "State of Hate: The Explosion of White Supremacy," hater Fareed Zakaria remind us all "how deeply embedded is the idea of racial hierarchy in western civilization."

"In fact," the prick editorializes, "in some ways it’s in the DNA of the modern west because from the 16th and 17th centuries, as Europe grew richer and stronger, it began to assume that its material success must be a result of its superiority, religious or ethnic or racial. This view built on centuries of western success has taken deep root and not just among whites. People across Asia [pronounced "Ashia" by Zakaria] and Africa prefer light skin to dark."

In his propaganda piece, Fareed takes care to conflate white nationalism with white supremacy, and fails to say whether the West can migrate to Pakistan, India and China en masse, without the people of those countries and their representatives protesting.

And should Pakistanis, Indians and Chinese protest the flooding of their countries by millions of whites who begin to change the character of these countries‐will Fareed characterize native protest as racist protest?

Fuck Fareed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/05/2019 03:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fareed Zakariah. I remember this fucker getting waylaid in Delhi and almost beaten up by a mob. The cops had to escort him to the airport. This guy is a snake. The leftist govt gave him a national award and now he goes around claiming to represent Indian interests, toeing whichever line helps his career.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/05/2019 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  In his propaganda piece, Fareed takes care to conflate white nationalism with white supremacy

He's covering all the bases on the lefty ball field, isn't he?

Also - he does have a face worth getting beat up by a mob, now that we bring it up.
Posted by: Raj || 11/05/2019 5:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Fareed Zakaria:

Posted by: 3dc || 11/05/2019 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Hit him in the forehead hard enough and those eyes will pop right out.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/05/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Who?
Posted by: Tom || 11/05/2019 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  You live in a country that is over 75 percent white. It's not racial, its demography.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/05/2019 15:19 Comments || Top||



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