I've always been a city boy. I got together with a group of friends recently and the conversation settled into the early 1970's. We wistfully talked of dating and the restaurants and clubs we frequented. Jobs we held. We didn't know each other then, yet we all had similar coming of age experiences, and frequented the same places.
During those years, I was going to school and working the weekend 11PM – 7AM shift at my uncle's restaurant, Mitchell's at State and Division. Truth be told, it was there, hosting and working the register that my love affair with the city really took hold. If I ever finish my memoir, Mitchell's will for sure occupy a chapter. You'll need to buy my book to read about the colorful details beginning with the most popular hangover cure, 16oz. hanging over the plate skirt steak and eggs breakfast.
Mitchell's was a stopping off point for politicians, minor celebrities, Gold Coast matrons, mobsters, Division Street bar hoppers, hookers, and any other local character strait out a Mike Royko piece in the still mourned by me, Chicago Daily News. Each of the characters I interacted with became part of the tapestry of my life. During the 30 years span beginning in late 1970's, the restaurant business became my focus and passion.
To understand food and its evolution you must constantly travel and discover what the world has to offer. So, I willingly traveled searching for the most perfect meal. I found plenty. The other thing I found was that the United States had 3 bright shining stars.
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[Federalist] The left has mainstreamed utterly bizarre racist ideas about white people from hate groups such as the Nation of Islam, and they expect to be taken seriously.
Social media has an annoying habit of ablating any remaining desire for good intellectual hygiene, so I recently clicked on a video of Joy Reid. Since being dumped from MSNBC, Reid has been making the podcast rounds. And the 40-second clip is vintage Reid; she accuses white people writ large of not being able to invent anything, rewriting history, and caps it off with a bizarre rant about Elvis that, well, completely rewrites history:
Elvis grew up in housing projects in Memphis alongside black people, credited black artists and showed them nothing but respect throughout his career, and generally did wonders for civil rights. As for Elvis stealing “his main song” from an “overweight black woman,” Reid simply doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Yes, Big Mama Thornton did record “Hound Dog” a few years before Elvis, but she didn’t write the song. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two Jewish white guys.
Thornton had a long career, albeit one hampered by pretty serious alcoholism, and died at 57. Big Mama Thornton deserves real credit for her contributions to the blues and rock and roll, but she was no Elvis, and he didn’t steal anything from her. “Hound Dog” has been recorded more than 250 times, including by several other artists in the four years between the release of Thornton and Elvis’ versions. Suffice to say, there’s plenty of reasons besides race why Elvis sold 10 million copies of “Hound Dog,” even if the 500,000 Thornton sold was nothing to sneeze at.
Anyway, “Joy Reid is an idiot” is a long running series, and that basic observation is not what struck me about this clip. It’s that Reid is spouting the most divisive ideas of black radical leaders, rooted in broad brush anti-white racism. Which is not to say that racism didn’t exist; there’s a lot that Reid could have said that would have been both shameful and fair. For instance, Thornton claims she was paid only $500 for selling half a million copies of “Hound Dog,” a common problem for black artists of the era. Instead, Reid accuses one of America’s greatest artists, who is overwhelmingly responsible for enriching and mainstreaming black artists in the decades to come, of only being successful because he “stole” from black people. And she mangles the facts in the process.
If I wanted to explain what’s going on here, well, one of St. Felix’s old tweets offers a startling clue. At one point, she offered her opinion that, “It’s tricknological, when white people invoke the holocaust. allows them to step out of their whiteness and slip on fake oppression [sic].” Those two sentences are more pregnant with meaning, albeit mostly unintentional, than anything published in the New Yorker in years.
But let’s just zero in on the obvious. In case you were wondering, Yakub, the black scientist from Mecca who created the white race 6,000 years ago, empowered them with science of “tricknology,” which allows them to deceive, steal ideas, and hide their true history from black people in order to oppress them. At least that’s what the Nation of Islam teaches. I don’t have any idea whether St. Felix is a serious student of the Nation of Islam or is merely invoking the concept. It’s bad enough that she’s saying Jews invoking the Holocaust is fake oppression. But if she is a disciple of Louis Farrakhan, the good news is that the NOI teaches that the reign of tricknology ended in the oddly specific year of 1914, so black people are no longer under our spell.
The claim is astonishingly stupid. About what we’ve learnt to expect from the physically attractive, attention-seeking Ms Owens, so at least she’s consistent.
[GatewayPundit] When unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron isn’t abroad inserting himself into the Russia-Ukraine peace process (where he has no place), he goes back home where only problems await him — not least of all his own elderly ouch!
wife.
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Owens called the libel suit ’goofy’, a vicious PR move to silence her.
She’s wrong about that, too — it’s not vicious.
"In his Paris Match interview, Mr. Macron took a thinly veiled swipe at the Trump administration, dismissing claims that lawsuits such as this flouted free speech, saying: "It is not freedom of speech to want to prevent the truth from being restored.
I’m not sure what President Trump has to do with it, except that poor Mr. Macron loathes him for not being one of the in crowd.
’Those who talk about this supposed freedom of speech are the people who ban journalists from the Oval Office. I don’t accept that’."
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Looks like we will get an answer to the conspiracy theory in the discovery of this case. A close to 40 year old teacher that develops a relationship with a 14 year old is not someone that I care to defend regardless of how the DNA test comes out.
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08/22/2025 7:03 Comments ||
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There won’t be any discovery, Super Hose — Ms Owens has absolutely no standing to demand that her fevered imaginings be indulged about the spouse of the French head of state in France, nor would that kind of nuisance suit be put on the court docket in America or England, where she lives and has citizenship.
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Again, Mrs Macron is from a large family, she has 3 biological children and at least 3 biological grandchildren.
A DNA examination of members of her family and her biological descendants would make any glaring discrepancy between her official biography and biological reality equally glaringly obvious.
To keep Owens' allegation a secret the French government would literally have to keep the entire Macron-Trogneux-Auzière clan hermetically sealed off from the world.
Macron is not a good guy and the official story of Brigitte and Emmanuel is creepy but Owens is also a loon.
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I am not a supporter of Candice Owens, but she has rights within our judicial system. She has standing if she is being sued. I don’t like when our judicial system creeps into other countries. I don’t like when globalists dabble in our judicial system. I am an anti-Globalist. I don’t care for the Macrons for that reason. I care little about most people’s personal choices but their situation, at its very best, is a 38 year old teacher grooming a 14 year old student. The trans issue seems immaterial to that criminality. To me that’s like arguing about whether Jeffery Dahmer was racist. My only interest, in this case, is that the defendant get’s treated correctly within our judicial system. I have seen our judicial system get perverted too many times this last couple of decades.
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08/22/2025 16:17 Comments ||
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Under US law, truth is a defense against charges of libel and defamation, with the burden of proof on the defendant.
This promises to be both entertaining and stupid. Already I don't care.
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I completely agree that Mrs. Macron is a vile human being, Super Hose. I was shocked to discover that so is Ms Owens, who i used to respect, though somewhat differently vile in that her vileness is wholesale and at a distance rather than retail.
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I see prime beachfront property in one of those videos and I can't understand what their complaint is. If they didn't hate the Juice so much they could be living pretty well.
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08/22/2025 13:20 Comments ||
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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
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