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Antifa sets police union building on fire again, 600-car pro-Trump caravan, deadly shooting near rally
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Cyber
How algorithms keep workers in the dark
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One of my favorite computer slang words - mung: mushed until no good.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Oops! Public School Teacher Forgets To Remove Antifa Mask Before Logging On For Class
[Bzzzzzz] PORTLAND, OR‐Parents are raising concerns after a teacher opened her Monday morning online class in full Antifa riot gear after forgetting to take it off the night before. According to witnesses, Willow Maven, a local first-grade teacher and prolific scarf knitter, began teaching her online class while still wearing a black ski mask and a leather jacket emblazoned with an Antifa logo.

"Okay class," she began. "Today we are reviewing the alphabet! Now repeat after me!"

"A is for Anti-fascist!"

"B is for Burning down symbols of oppression!"

"C is for Communism! The only compassionate system of government where everyone is equal!"

Ms. Maven was about to recite the letter "D is for Drumpf, the bad orange man" when she realized what she was wearing and quickly cut the feed.

"We understand this was distressing to some students and parents," said Superintendent Braylee Gungorstool. "It's obviously very concerning to discover there are some fascist students and parents in our midst. If you are offended by courageous anti-fascist fighters, I really feel sorry for you. Please rest assured the school will conduct a thorough investigation into every suspected fascist at our school. We have also asked Ms. Maven to abide by the teacher dress code from now on."

Local concerned parents then apologized for being fascists and promised to "be better" in the future.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/30/2020 10:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Clever write up; blaming the students and teachers is spot-on. As is parents apologizing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The Bee, so close to the truth it hurts sometimes
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 08/30/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Bee or not Bee - you decide
Posted by: Bigfoot the Weasel5022 || 08/30/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Bee or not Bee - you decide

That Bee, once again with the satire indistinguishable from reality. I swear, it's Schroedinger's Cat every day with these people.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2020 14:07 Comments || Top||

#5  From the nypost article: Look at the screen grab of the Roma, TX teacher's posters. One shows ISIS ninjas and hijab'd out Palestinian womyn. Nice
Posted by: Grolunter Speaper3097 || 08/30/2020 14:10 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm not ashamed of missing this one.
Posted by: gorb || 08/30/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7  the "B" got me
Posted by: 746 || 08/30/2020 21:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'Something's going on here and it's much bigger than people think'
[American Thinker] Following the conclusion of the Republican National Convention, the far left's "fiery but peaceful" protestors had a pretty disgusting plan: instead of just yelling at the top of their lungs from the outside, or attempting to disrupt the convention from the inside, or burning and looting nearby shops to give the whole thing a bad public relations odor, they decided to physically attack Republicans as they exited the convention. That was the plan.

They certainly attacked random nobodies exiting the front, but when Sen. Rand Paul attempted to get to his hotel two blocks away on foot after waiting 45 minutes at the wrong hotel, the mobs recognized him and got really excited, first swarming him and his wife in a group of 30, and then swelling to 60, and then to a 120-sized turba mob. They made lunging attacks at the senator and his luckily spotted police escort who were trying to protect Paul and his wife and deflect the "protesters."

It was a travesty. Paul described it very well.

Some excerpts: "We cannot go outside now, it's too dangerous."

"The United States is going to become Portland."

"We'll eff you up."

"This is happening in all our cities, thank God for the police."

"I want to live the life of a normal person, where I go to the grocery store and buy groceries, or stop at the Minute-Mart."

Paul's most important statement came here:

"This also is not normal. There's something ... going on here. This is like, the FBI needs to be involved."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, Sen Rand Paul's colleagues in the Congress remain generally silent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  FBI should have been involved six years ago.

BLM has been from inception a radical Marxist revolutionary organization that aims to overthrow the state. Their intentions have always been clear. Same for the white punks and psychos who make up Antifa
Posted by: Glealet McGurque6478 || 08/30/2020 2:45 Comments || Top||

#3  FBI should have been involved six years ago.

They were too busy gearing up for Crossfire Hurricane...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I’ve read that for some time the FBI have been instructed not to look for terrorism on the Left, as the risks are on the Right and among jihadis. And it wasn’t until current events that it’s changed even somewhat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  The BLM-directed and inspired violence incl targeted assassinations of cops began more than 5 yrs ago, under Obama.. see the mass shooting of five cops in downtown Dallas in summer of 2015 for ex.

Also the targeted killings of the two cops in Brooklyn around the same time. This has nothing to do w Trump. All part of the BLM plan in 2013
Posted by: Winky Jock6094 || 08/30/2020 13:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Both the rioters and federal government want Trump out. Reason enough for them to work together.
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948 || 08/30/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||

#7  these mobs aren't interested in reform. They want to tear the whole edifice down, and some huge billionaires are behind them.

Bingo! Strange but the Dems don't seem to have the problems that Paul and his wife had. You don't suppose the Dems are behind these rioters?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||


Biden: 'If You Thought The Republican Convention Was Good, Just Wait 'Til We Have Our Convention!'
[Babylon Bee] Joe Biden conceded today that the Republican Convention was "alright," "pretty inspiring, to be honest," and "a real gas."

But Biden says the Democratic Convention is going to be "even better."

"Just you wait -- our convention is going to blow this one out of the water," he said to a department store mannequin. "Man alive, I tell you what: we're gonna have fireworks and flags and all kinds of stuff. That nice, clean, articulate woman of color is gonna be there: what's her name again? It's like the same name as some wrassler: Hulk? Hogan! That's it, Hogan. She's a real swell broad."

It was unclear how Biden got into the department store, as it's been out of business since 2013. Aides located him after they put out a Silver Alert and coaxed him into a windowless van by writing "FREE HAIR" on the side. They were then able to transport him safely back to the basement for storage until the election.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not satire. This is real.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/30/2020 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Was he sniffing the mannequin?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 08/30/2020 1:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Black Diamond tough.
Having a dog faced pony soldier moment, this could happen.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Have to admit I thought this was real.

On the other hand, I was sure that "Biden blames Trump for Michigan governor canceling football" had to satire. I am 0 for 2 today.
Posted by: Cleting Closh2157 || 08/30/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Will Egypt’s arrest of Brotherhood leader push group to Turkey, Qatar?
[Jpost] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s ruling party has close links to the group, as does Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and Qatar
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


-PC Follies
Stop Letting Children (aka Professional Athletes) Bully the World
[PJ] Enough is enough, and if professional sports team owners haven’t realized it yet, succumbing to bullying and children’s temper tantrums never works out for anyone... especially in this case, where the adults who own the teams bear all the financial risk.

Let’s all be brutally honest. Athletes are extremely well-paid entertainers. The average Major League Baseball player makes $4,051,490 per year, and the average NBA player earns a whopping $7.7 million. They are paid as high or higher than the biggest stars in film, music, and television. But they are entertainers, and in the same way that an actor is paid huge sums because they cause even higher profits for the studio or production company, these athletes are getting paid exorbitant amounts so that the team owners can make profits. These players have no financial risk and should be incredibly grateful that they are paid such large amounts for playing a sport.

All people, including entertainers of every sort, have their own opinions, especially political opinions in the current divided climate. But there are precedents for athletes using their popularity to further the expression of their goals. Jackie Robinson, Tommy Smith, and Muhammad Ali are only a few of the many athletes who have effected positive change in our culture through the use of their popularity as entertainers. Other athletes went on to become actively involved in politics and became true leaders: Bill Bradley, J.C. Watts, Jack Kemp, and many others capitalized on their popularity to become legitimate leaders on a national level. They became true policymakers by building upon their athletic successes.

But the current athletes in the NBA and MLB do not act as responsible leaders, but as spoiled children. And they need to be taken to task for their behavior.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 02:39 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are neither 'children' nor 'professionals'. I will leave it at that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2020 2:42 Comments || Top||



#4  Go nuts for professional sports!
Watch a fortunate few non-aborts
Perform for a crowd
With no balls, loud and proud,
In their time off from feelz and the courts!
Posted by: Oscar Bourbon5058 || 08/30/2020 4:42 Comments || Top||

#5  People who want to let others do their thinking for them will usually seek out the worst possible individuals to fill that role.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||

#6  The only people hurt by all this are indentured taxpayers caught with paying off huge sports complexes foisted upon them by mayors, city councils, and sports fanatics to provide recreational facilities for millionaires.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2020 7:28 Comments || Top||

#7  LeBron setting up for a career in Hollywood.
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Well I had given up on everything except Major League Baseball and now that’s gone
Last fall professional football showed signs of returning to sanity but that’s gone
My alma mater one of the most conservative places in the galaxy had the football team stage a boycott and is still trying to remove the statue of the school’s founder because he was a Confederate general even though he he was openly and vocally anti slavery
What’s a man to do when everyone is going crazy over a shooting 2000 miles away
This BLM stuff is getting to the point you can’t arrest a black or even stop one for speeding
Fourteen percent of our population is driving our nation crazy and the white guilt and white privilege crowd are joining in
Reminds me of the upheaval in France before DeGaulle was elected when he said “it is me or the abyss”
Pretty much where we are with Trump you may hate his style and his politics and his way of doing business but it is him or the end of the United States
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/30/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#9  It's the culmination of years and years of white liberal/Leftists pronouncing almost every little thing is "racist" to the point of almost fear to say or do anything. No logical discussion or argumentation, no fair or honest assessment of history, and utter disregard for facts and statistics (e.g., crime perpetration, police shootings). Indeed, 14% of the population (below Hispanics now, perhaps) causing grief. Not all, of course. And the kow-tow'ing of corporations, professional sports, etc., pathetic. Not unexpected, but pathetic nonetheless.

I can only hope that when professional sports finally re-open the gates for fan attendance that there me many more empty seats. Many more.
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Daily Beast article accidentally kicks the cat by confirming it is all corporate sloganeering and committee focus group polls.

That isn't fight the power.

That's do what the power says or else.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||

#11  (Lebron link goes to the nightstalkers)

Lebron performs corporate heil for famous Disney salesman and butthole licker while wearing shoes made by chinese slaves whose profits go to chinese masters who can now afford to go to Disney movies.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#12  The next round of negotiations with the TV networks could be very interesting indeed if their ratings keep tanking the way they have been...and of course on "boycott" nights, the number of viewers is literally zero. Not much ad revenue from that.
Posted by: Tom || 08/30/2020 14:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Televised Cornhole and Bowling tournaments might be about as good as it gets.
Posted by: Clem || 08/30/2020 14:41 Comments || Top||

#14  PJMedia are the people who will screech "That is not who we are!" if somebody actually does anything about any of this.
Posted by: charger || 08/30/2020 15:31 Comments || Top||

#15  IMO the problem will take care of itself. The fan base will dry up along with the big money. These pro athletes are killing the golden goose.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2020-08-30
  Antifa sets police union building on fire again, 600-car pro-Trump caravan, deadly shooting near rally
Sat 2020-08-29
  Portland: Mayor besieged in his condo
after refusing Trump assistance
Fri 2020-08-28
  Antifa and BLM attacking people leaving the Whitehouse after RNC end.
Thu 2020-08-27
  Congo army says Islamist militia kills 20 in east
Wed 2020-08-26
  Kenosha Residents Fire Warning Shots as Rioters Threaten Neighborhoods (video)
Tue 2020-08-25
  Chief: Detroit police prevented 'Seattle zone of lawlessness'
Mon 2020-08-24
  Denver: After attacking police headquarters and a courthouse, antifa black bloc militants go around smashing up businesses
Sun 2020-08-23
  Sudan's Hamdok says government ready to cooperate with ICC over Darfur
Sat 2020-08-22
  PDF about major Soros loss in the Supreme Court.
Fri 2020-08-21
  Ansarallah forces kill high-ranking ISIS leader in Yemen
Thu 2020-08-20
  Mali soldiers promise civilian transition after president's ouster
Wed 2020-08-19
  Ansarallah leader, who has not missed many meals, says negotiations with Saudi Arabia reached dead end, war to continue
Tue 2020-08-18
  Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
Mon 2020-08-17
  Syrian presidency reveals conditions for direct talks with US
Sun 2020-08-16
  Erdogan accused Greece of state terrorism against Turkish/Muslim minority


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