[Daily Caller] Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone on Wednesday called for an end to the Mueller investigation and defended Donald Trump’s legitimacy as president.
Langone expressed skepticism when responding to Fox News host Neil Cavuto’s question about Bob Woodward’s book and the anonymous New York Times op-ed criticizing President Trump.
"I’m suspicious that we’re getting close to a mid-term election and this anonymous op-ed, Woodward’s book and I’m also intrigued by the number of people that he cites in the book that have come out vocally and passionately saying ’I didn’t say that.’ Come on."
"Forget about it," Langone said when asked about former President Obama’s recent return to the national stage as a Trump critic. "Obama ought to do what every other great president did. Go off into the sunset. Be the mother of the groom. Wear beige and keep your mouth shut."
"Give the guy credit," the Home Depot co-founder said, noting Trump’s accomplishments in negotiating with North Korea before calling for an end to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as a hindrance to President Trump’s legitimacy.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov is seriously ill and in hospital, members of the Pussy Riot protest band with whom he collaborated said late on Wednesday, suggesting he may have been poisoned.
Verzilov, 30, staged a brief pitch invasion during the soccer World Cup final in Moscow in July along with three women affiliated to the anti-Kremlin punk band and is the publisher of Mediazona, a Russian online news outlet which focuses on human rights violations inside Russia’s penal system.
"Our friend, brother, comrade Petr Verzilov is in reanimation. His life is in danger. We think that he was poisoned," Pussy Riot said on its official Twitter feed.
Sergei Smirnov, editor-in-chief of Mediazona, struck a more cautious note however, confirming on social media that Verzilov was in hospital but saying nobody knew his diagnosis, making it difficult to understand what was going on.
Online news portal Meduza cited Veronika Nikulshina, who it said was Verzilov’s girlfriend, describing how he had been rushed to hospital on Tuesday night after he started to lose his eyesight and ability to talk and walk.
[FOX] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poked Sen. Cory Booker over the New Jersey Democrat's much-mocked invocation of "Spartacus" during last week's confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh.
Booker was roundly ridiculed after threatening to defy the Senate rules and release what he thought were confidential documents concerning Kavanaugh’s past, "This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ’I am Spartacus’ moment," said Booker.
Thomas, who called his own contentious confirmation hearing back in 1991 a "high-tech lynching," took a jab at Booker during a conversation with the Federalist Society that aired Wednesday on C-SPAN.
"Honorable ‐ if we could use that word about more people who are in public life, people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings, instead of 'Spartacus,'" Thomas said, prompting loud laughter in the audience.
[GP] Woodward paints a portrayal of the Trump White House as having a "nervous breakdown" and an "administrative coup d’etat".
The book was meant as a hit piece on President Trump and his administration. What comes across is what Trump supporters already know about Trump: He relies on his instincts, he is learning as he goes and has been beset by disloyal operatives determined to preserve the ways of Washington, D.C., and prevent him from ’draining the swamp.’
Several top Trump officials have already disputed Woodward’s facts as complete rubbish.
Never the less, Woodward is out making the rounds on the liberal media trashing President Trump and his historically successful administration.
But here is something that is not being reported. It is clear today that the top levels of the FBI and DOJ were actively working to sabotage the Trump campaign and the Trump administration. This is the largest political scandal in US history that is not being reported on by the liberal mainstream media.
Now this...
According to a State Department email from Sid Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton Bob Woodward has been an FBI asset ever since his Deep Throat days.
#4
The so called massive sales are simply distribution inventory for retail sales. This is a game that has been played many times. The fix is in. The money is all for show to keep Woodward relevant. I am waiting to see Dan Rather resurrected at any time. This all goes on with the conservative being silenced. Just another feeble attack that will produce no effective results. Similarly as we see the polls spew disinformation. The days of media credibility are gone.
#6
So "Watergate" was the first FBI coup against a president?
Remember that Hillary was part of the Watergate prosecution -- until she was fired for encouraging unethical and illegal tactics. Seems to me this is just her sticking with what she knows best.
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At least Tricky Dick resigned, some say for the good of the nation and the office of the presidency. Compare Nixon to psycho/sociopaths such as Bill Clinton and Obama.
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The whole thing reminds me of the Cain Mutiny. As the attorney said at the end, if the officers had actually supported their captain he wouldn't have been driven to paranoia at the vital time when the ship was in danger.
Trump is Queeg, FBI and Democrats are the disloyal officers. Hopefully we'll have a different ending as the nation supports the commander in chief still.
[Daily Caller] Michael Cutler, a retired senior special agent for the Immigration and Naturalization Service says politicians haven’t learned the lessons history has taught us in regards to national security and border enforcement 17 years after the attacks on 9/11.
Cutler served as a senior special agent for INS for over 30 years, and he also provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission.
h/t Instapundit
The origins of this post, at least, and the ones I have planned to follow on, stem in the recent decision by a court to fine the ever-livin’ daylights out of a company based not on science, but the science illiteracy of a judge and jury, and the politicization of science. I’m speaking, of course, of the ruling that accused Roundup of being a cancer-causing substance, . Science says it isn’t. The legal system says it is. Who is telling the truth, here?>
#2
Let's be honest. A lot depends on just who is doing the study. If it's Greenpeace, then one milligram will kill everybody on the planet. If the company that makes it then it's as harmless as rain water. These studies IMO should be done by unbiased third parties
They determined that the herbicide aminotriazole (C2H4N4) could create a thyroid issue which might cause cancer in rats. And then it was detected in some cranberry shipments. Now, scientists knew that rats are not little people, animal studies can only exclude causes of cancer and never show them, and they knew that the dose it took to create the thyroid issue that might create cancer in a rodent was equivalent to 15,000 pounds of cranberries every day for the entire lifetime of the animal
[PJ] Last week, PJ Media contributor and Fox News guest Denise McAllister sent out a powerful tweet denouncing the abortion movement. Little did she know, days later she would be in hiding, scared for her life. When she went public about receiving death and rape threats, pro-abortion Twitter users championed the threats against her.
"At the root of [abortion] hysteria is women’s unhinged desire for irresponsible sex. Sex is their god. Abortion is their sacrament," McAllister tweeted. "It’s abhorrent as women have flung themselves from the heights of being the world’s civilizing force to the muck and mire of dehumanizing depravity."
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At the root of #abortion hysteria is women’s unhinged desire for irresponsible sex. Sex is their god. Abortion is their sacrament. It’s abhorrent as women have flung themselves from the heights of being the world’s civilizing force to the muck and mire of dehumanizing depravity.
As if to prove McAllister's point about depravity, abortion activists jumped on her case, calling her everything from crazy to misogynist to a supporter of "The Handmaid's Tale."
Nothing like creating a hostile work environment for the political dissenters, who have since openly complained about harassment and intimidation from management and colleagues alike...
[Breitbart] A video recorded by Google shortly after the 2016 presidential election reveals an atmosphere of panic and dismay amongst the tech giant’s leadership, coupled with a determination to thwart both the Trump agenda and the broader populist movement emerging around the globe.
The video is a full recording of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election (these weekly meetings are known inside the company as “TGIF” or “Thank God It’s Friday” meetings). Sent to Breitbart News by an anonymous source, it features co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth Porat, and CEO Sundar Pichai. It can be watched in full above. It can and should be watched in full above in order to get the full context of the meeting and the statements made.
It was reported earlier this week that Google tried to boost turnout among the Latino population to help Hillary Clinton, only to be dismayed as the usually solid Democratic voting bloc switched to the GOP in record numbers. This video shows a similar level of dismay among Google’s most high-profile figures.
These individuals, who preside over a company with unrivaled influence over the flow of information, can be seen disparaging the motivations of Trump voters and plotting ways to use their vast resources to thwart the Trump agenda.
Co-founder Sergey Brin can be heard comparing Trump supporters to fascists and extremists. Brin argues that like other extremists, Trump voters were motivated by “boredom,” which he says in the past led to fascism and communism.
The Google co-founder then asks his company to consider what it can do to ensure a “better quality of governance and decision-making.”
VP for Global Affairs Kent Walker argues that supporters of populist causes like the Trump campaign are motivated by “fear, xenophobia, hatred, and a desire for answers that may or may not be there.”
Later, Walker says that Google should fight to ensure the populist movement – not just in the U.S. but around the world – is merely a “blip” and a “hiccup” in a historical arc that “bends toward progress.”
CEO Sundar Pichai states that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat what an employee described as “misinformation” shared by “low-information voters.” More at the link
#3
They definitely have core values. They just interpret the words differently than we do. What, for instance, is evil? To me, creating an Orwellian atmosphere of RightThink is evil. Obviously, they disagree.
#4
a New York University psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, was formulating a theory about why liberals and conservatives have such a hard time productively conversing.
After mucking around in a lot of survey data, he came up with this basic idea: Liberals and people of the left underpin their politics with moral concerns about harm and fairness; they are driven by the imperative to help the vulnerable and see justice done. Conservatives and people of the right value these things as well but have several additional moral touchstones — loyalty, respect and sanctity. They value in-group solidarity, deference to authority, and the protection of purity in mind and body. To liberals, those sincerely held values can look a lot like, in Dr. Haidt's words, "xenophobia, authoritarianism and Puritanism." This asymmetry is the fountainhead of mutual incomprehension and disdain.
Haidt has done good work on the psychology of political persuasion. He's a self-described liberal who discovered some of the personality traits that correlate with political belief. One of the most telling discoveries was that conservatives tend to be curious about what liberals think and why, while liberals see conservatives as inferior "other," inherently incapable of thought.
When faced with questions such as "One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "Justice is the most important requirement for a society," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.
Jonathan Haidt's experiments ask liberals and conservatives to fill out questionnaires about their values, then to predict how someone from the opposite tribe would fill out the questionnaire. He finds that conservatives are able to predict liberals' answers just fine and seem to have a pretty good understanding of their worldviews, but that liberals have *no idea* how conservatives think or what they value.
#7
They seem not to have any problem working hand in hand with the authoritarian regime in China. The Left never has rid itself of its old love of the Plantation system in any form.
#8
My own idea is that emotional NEOTENY drives the liberal mind.
They cannot imagine other people can think differently and the attempt to live at other's expense and expectation of being able to do so is a longing to return to those times.
perhaps the book is more complex than the snippets suggest. One of the comments on the book suggests - A great book that explains how Conservatives don't Care as much as Liberals.
And if you've taken offense to that statement, you should read the book.
On the other hand, speaking for myself, I probably don't care as much as a lot of liberals. But I might still read the book on my next vacation.
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Maybe I won't read the book. Here is the last part of a lengthy critical review -
I don't actually disagree with any of Haidt's psychological studies. I just come to entirely different conclusion. When Haidt finds ignorance and prejudice, he wants to build a code of ethics out of it. Where I find ignorance and prejudice, I want to educate people and help them to understand the points of views of others. How can this come about? Well, first one must accept that there is a real, physical reality out there, and that certain actions make sense in the real world and others don't. If you compare today's political discussion with that of previous generations, you can see how far we've fallen. For example, read "The Federalist Papers" and compare that to any modern day politician's anti-intellectualism, and you can realize how much America has lost since our founding in terms of critical thinking and honest debate.
The Enlightenment-style system of individual rights has advanced society enormously. Unfortunately, there are still pseudo-intellectuals like Haidt who want to drag us back into the stone age, or worse, towards fascism, religious fundamentalism, or communism. I find this book disturbing and could go on and on about problems I have with it, however I think I've said enough to get my point across.
Maybe the blind squirrel found an acorn, in comment #4?
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#12
Freaking nerds trying to be accepted by the cool kids.
#13
The left has built up thick walls around their echo-chambers for the last decade or so. If on the military could build tanks and warships out of such strong material as liberal bullheadishness.
[PJ] A math education professor is arguing that gifted math classes cause "academic apartheid" among students, claiming that the practice is rooted in "capitalist exploitations and settler colonialism."
The study, "Understanding Issues Associated With Tracking Students in Mathematics Education," was published in the new issue of the the Columbia University journal Mathematics Education by Cacey Wells, a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
In his article ‐ which relies heavily upon social justice math theory ‐ Wells takes aim at what teachers call "academic tracking," which is the practice of placing students in different math classes (such as pre-algebra or gifted classes) depending on test scores.
Under the tracking system, for example, a student who scores in the top 10 percent of his peers may be placed into a precalculus course. On the other hand, a student who scores in the lowest 10 percent may be placed into a remedial math class, or perhaps pre-algebra.
While this practice is fairly common in high school, it has come under criticism by teachers who worry about the impact of the practice on the lower performing students. The confidence of some students may suffer at the expense of others, especially minorities, it is argued.
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The confidence of some students may suffer at the expense of others, especially minorities, it is argued.
Confidence in what? They can work harder or they can decide that advanced education is not in their future... D'Oh. My older sister (Edu. PhD and all that) told me that every remedial math course she taught there was one or two "students" that didn't believe her when she said "Do. Your. Homework."
#9
I think we discovered a link - the solar astronomers in NM were using non-SJW math and have been placed on indefinite leave pending successful completion of mandatory education. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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.
[GP] Woodward paints a portrayal of the Trump White House as having a "nervous breakdown" and an "administrative coup d’etat".
[Daily Caller] Michael Cutler, a retired senior special agent for the Immigration and Naturalization Service says politicians haven’t learned the lessons history has taught us in regards to national security and border enforcement 17 years after the attacks on 9/11.
[PJ] Last week, PJ Media contributor and Fox News guest Denise McAllister sent out a powerful tweet denouncing the abortion movement. Little did she know, days later she would be in hiding, scared for her life. When she went public about receiving death and rape threats, pro-abortion Twitter users championed the threats against her.
[PJ] A math education professor is arguing that gifted math classes cause "academic apartheid" among students, claiming that the practice is rooted in "capitalist exploitations and settler colonialism."
