Tuck two tickets to somewhere memorable inside this vintage-style roller bag from Steamline Luggage and you’ve won Valentine’s Day for a decade. Every detail, down to the red lining, is truly beautiful.
[Guardian] Overdoses or violent crime have claimed Mac Miller, Juice WRLD and Nipsey Hussle. ’It’s not a fairytale lifestyle,’ admits an insider ‐ but should the business do more to protect its stars?
It might sound callous, but Jacob Thureson’s parents, Erik and Judy, were not too worried when they heard about his latest overdose. It had happened a couple of times already and the 18-year-old rapper had always made it out of hospital in one piece. Thureson, who performed under the name Hella Sketchy, was among the wave of emo-influenced trap rappers who came up using the music platform SoundCloud. He had recently relocated from the family home in Texas to Los Angeles after being signed to Atlantic Records.
As Erik drove to work, he cycled through a mental list of options: more inpatient treatment? Thureson had already been to rehab, twice. Ketamine therapy?
There would be no further plan of action. Shortly after Erik left for work, Judy received another phone call. Things were very bad, and they should come to the hospital now. Fourteen days later, on 27 June 2019, Thureson died.
Many young rappers have died in the past few years. Mac Miller died in 2018 aged 26 after consuming cocaine and counterfeit oxycodone containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Lil Peep died at 21 in 2017 ‐ an accidental fentanyl and Xanax overdose. Juice WRLD died late last year after a drug-induced seizure aboard a private jet. It is believed he swallowed multiple Percocet pills in an attempt to hide them as police raided the plane. On New Year’s Day, a rare female death: Minnesota rapper Lexii Alijai, the victim of yet another accidental fentanyl overdose.
Alongside these deaths by misadventure, there are the victims of violent crime. Despite being accused of horrific abuse by an ex-partner, XXXTentacion enjoyed massive popularity before being killed in 2018 aged 20 as he was robbed outside a Florida motorcycle dealership. Pittsburgh rapper Jimmy Wopo ‐ touted as the heir to local forebears Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller ‐ was killed in a drive-by shooting the same day. Two weeks later, 21-year-old Canadian rapper and Drake tourmate Smoke Dawg was killed outside a Toronto nightclub. In March 2019, Nipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his Los Angeles clothing store. You know the blood cells that remove infections are white, right? I blame The Man
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I thought ALL generations of rappers died young.
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Not new. Just this season's version of the nihilists... tho I suspect the nihilists could actually carry a tune and didn't have to resort to chanting.
[The Independent via France24] We look at the main British front pages on what is being called Brexit Day. There is some euphoria at the country's departure from the European Union and also some anxiety as the Brits go it alone. We also look at reaction in some of the French papers as the spectre of a breakaway UK looms on their doorstep. Join us.
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What is with this BS metaphor of "a leap into the unknown" -- as if Britain was always and forever part of Europe?
It's a divorce. Marriages sometimes fail. The separation can sometimes be traumatic for small children - like the childish hysterics who write for the British press.
But it's not some lead off a cliff. There are costs to a divorce, but the parties know this, and recognize that the benefits of separation outweigh them.
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The fallacy at the heart of the idea of a united Europe stems from ignorance of the fact that European civilizations Greatest advances occurred because of European fragmentation and internal conflict. Had the Holy Roman Empire dominated all of Europe the way the Ottomans or the Byzantines dominated their territories, Europe never would have had the Renaissance, the discoveries and expansion across the globe, or Scientific Revolution or Industrial capitalism and all of the huge advances in public health, chemistry, aviation, mass communications etc.
A united Europe is a stagnant Europe.
Europe has ALWAYS advanced on the basis of competition, strife, challenges to central authority and orthodoxy.
#9
The European Union was not all that great for GB. Probably good for the "Banksters" and globalists (probably one and the same). Time to get their sense of nationalism and culture back. They, like us, had long-standing identities that were rapidly being erased.
[The Federalist] There is very good reason to believe Michael Bloomberg isn’t actually running for president.
Of course, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. For one, he declared he is. He’s also hired more than 1,000 staff and is still expanding, offering salaries far above campaign averages. This week, he became the first of the declared candidates to have campaigned in all 14 states of March 3’s Super Tuesday primary battle, and he’s spent a quarter billion on political advertising so far. All would point toward Bloomberg indeed running for president.
BLUF:
Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street billionaire whom D.C.’s flunky press affectionately calls "mayor of the world," seeks to drown all of that out with his private wealth. He doesn’t like the man voters put in the White House, so he’s going to spend billions of dollars to undo it.
Look, money has always been a player in politics. People use it for good, people use it for evil, and Americans will cheer their selflessness or decry their selfishness depending on whether they agree with their politics. None of it changes that Bloomberg is skirting the campaign finance laws designed to keep the American republic answerable to her citizens ‐ that, and he isn’t really running for president. Emphasis added.
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What is the net worth of the "major" Dem candidates? You can even remove Bloomberg and use a weighted average.
Even Michael Moore through a hissy fit about 'Mike'. How the Dems can moan and groan about big money is beyond me.
[Washington Examiner] Mitt Romney is stoking suspicions that he is eyeing a third White House bid in 2024 after the Utah Republican broke with his party and insisted on witnesses at President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. He won't be re-elected in Utah. Loser
Along with centrist Susan Collins of Maine, Romney was one of just two Senate Republicans to join the Democrats in a failed vote to subpoena fresh testimony. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee might yet acquit Trump on two articles alleging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but consistent criticism of Trump throughout impeachment, a GOP rarity, capped by support for witnesses has some Republicans convinced Romney is jockeying to reclaim the party.
"Mitt Romney is a bitter, jealous man who looks at President Trump and wishes he could be him. This is about Romney’s ego, nothing else," said Jason Miller, a Republican strategist who advised Trump during the 2016 campaign and co-hosts a podcast with Steve Bannon, the president’s former White House counselor.
A second Republican strategist neither affiliated with nor opposed to Trump agreed that Romney’s maneuvering during the four-month impeachment process was calculated. This veteran operative predicted the senator would be active after the November elections, trying to restore the internationalist, "Chamber of Commerce" Republicanism that dominated the GOP before the elevation of Trump, a populist and a nationalist.
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Dude will be 76 years old four years from now and well over half of Republican voters will never support him again. Ain't happening, Mitt, and next time put Seamus inside the car!
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After a long, hot summer of self-immolation, Trump's 2020 prospects look bleak.
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Delecto doesn't get it: the Global Grifter Era is finished. Over. Done. Trump and Johnson put the final nails in the coffin.
Remember Gingrich's cutting observation about Tomneys chances in 2012: "When has this country ever had a president with Swiss bank accounts?"
The GOP is now the National Party. No more country club BS. No more stigmatizing half the country as "takers," "moochers," as losers who deserve to be replaced by "hardworking" shit-wage campesinos imported from abroad and who would do us all a favor if they'd just OD on their drugs and get out of the way.
That Bret Stephens-Pierre Delecto-Bill Kristol view of the heartland has no place anymore in the new GOP.
One Nation now. Global Grifters, GTFO. China welcomes you.
Delecto couldn't care less. The Global Grifter Uniparty has no attachment to any American place or precinct or state or other jurisdiction.
They place their car elevators and McMansions wherever they can find abundant private security forces and a local airport for their gulf streams. CA, NM, FL, WY, MT, NY, the Caribbean--wherever. Makes no difference. They represent only themselves and the other Global Grifters around the world.
[TheDrive] The U.S. military wants to send Patriot surface-to-air missile units to Iraq in the wake of unprecedented Iranian ballistic missile strikes aimed at American forces in the country earlier this month, which the Pentagon now says caused dozens of injuries in addition to significant damage to facilities at Al Asad Air Base. However, the U.S. government still needs permission from authorities in Iraq to do so, approval that has so far not been forthcoming.
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AND the bottom line for foreign sales is blacker than DoD sales.
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The problem of "Joint-ness"? All of the Services need to be polled, then the Spooks and Diplomats need to have their "opinions" solicited before we can do anything (quote) controversial (un-quote). Bureaucratic paralysis.
[News24] The outbreak of a new coronavirus has sparked fear and anxiety around the world.
The pneumonia-like virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 9,700 people and killed 213.
So far, the virus does not seem to be as deadly as SARS, which killed 774 people from 2002 to 2003. SARS had a mortality rate of 9.6%, whereas about 2% of people infected with the new coronavirus have died. But the number of people infected after one month has already surpassed the SARS outbreak's eight-month total.
Many patients with coronavirus have already made full recoveries. According to Chinese officials, most of those who've died were elderly or had other ailments that compromised their immune systems.
Experts say that for the most part, global panic over the Wuhan coronavirus is unproductive and unwarranted: The public should take precautions to avoid getting sick, but the most effective preventative measures are everyday actions like increased handwashing and not touching your face.
An expert also said fear would not stop the spread of the virus and could cause negative social impacts.
"There's the spread of infectious disease, then there's the spread of panic," Amira Roess, a professor of global health and epidemiology at George Mason University, told Business Insider. "They have very different mechanisms."
In the early stages of an infectious-disease outbreak, Roess added, much of the panic is "fear of the unknown."
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An expert also said fear would not stop the spread of the virus and could cause negative social impacts.
Yes, increasingly large numbers of sick and dying could be labeled a negative 'social impact.' A little healthy fear, caution and common sense... perhaps not all bad. What am I missing ?
[USA Today] France lost 10,000 millionaires last year. Meanwhile, Chicago is losing more millionaires than any other U.S. city. And the University of Missouri just closed two more dorms ‐ for a total of four shut down this spring ‐ because of plummeting enrollment.
What do these things have in common? The consequences of giving in to leftist demands, instead of focusing on the basics.
Most people want some pretty basic things from the powers-that-be: Safety, freedom of movement and the opportunity to get ahead. Where these things prevail, people tend to be pretty happy. Where they don’t, people tend to be less so ‐ and to vote with their feet when they have the opportunity.
In France, the socialist government of Francois Hollande has jacked up taxes even as it has shown an increasing inability to protect the citizenry against crime and terrorism. So the people who can leave most easily ‐ the millionaires ‐ are setting out for greener pastures.
Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago isn’t officially socialist ‐ though, with its high taxes and bloated public sector, you might be excused for thinking otherwise ‐ but the same problems apply. Crime and disorder are up, so are taxes. It’s no wonder people are leaving for places where they feel safer, and where they think they’ll keep more of their money.
If Hollande or Emanuel could maintain peaceful, prosperous polities, perhaps people would forgive the high taxes. But, as so often seems to be the case, their citizens see themselves paying higher and higher taxes to support a government that fails to deliver on its most basic function of maintaining public order. Unsurprisingly, that feels like a bad deal.
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Liberal collages are closing as I recall 20% last year alone. Next 10 years near 50%. Lower birth rates. Men not going to college. Cost and liberal influence on education.
Learn 'em, use 'em, make 'em catch on. There are some gems here people, so share this post all over and get people using these. Emotional imperialism is one that can really catch fire.
[Medium] In this essay, I introduce a slew of neologisms‐new words‐to capture the tone and substance of much discourse, rhetoric, dysfunction, and bias in academia and psychology. It's partly inspired by an article entitled ‘Lexicon for Gender Bias in Academia and Medicine' by Drs Choo and May in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), although that one was coming at this from a different perspective. They argued that "mansplaining" was just the "tip of the iceberg" and so coined terms such as “Himpediment,” defined as a “man who stands in the way of progress of women.”
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Misteria: Irrational fear that advancing women means catastrophic lack of opportunity for men.
This Orwelexicon is offered in a similar spirit of capturing biases, albeit quite different ones, that pervade academia. It is also a bit different, at least sometimes, because these words often capture the Orwellian disingenuousness with which some terms are used in academia.
A long list of cute, defined terms in alphabetical order.
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"Straw Newman" might be a little catchier than "Cathy Newmanism."
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Academia has become a seed-bed for every cockamamie idea to come along. It does not have to be anywhere close to legitimate, sane or based in law or science.
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.
For the Romantic
[Guardian] Overdoses or violent crime have claimed Mac Miller, Juice WRLD and Nipsey Hussle. ’It’s not a fairytale lifestyle,’ admits an insider ‐ but should the business do more to protect its stars?
[News24] The outbreak of a new coronavirus has sparked fear and anxiety around the world.
An expert also said fear would not stop the spread of the virus and could cause negative social impacts.
