#2
The Duke of York, a dauntless prick,
passes for a doddering frick,
walks the alleys for a three minute trick;
in peasants and beggars dippin' his wick.
When they ask him, 'Beg pardon, explain'
he puts up a royal shtick.
'Alzheimer's !' He 'dignantly shouts,
and the Lestrade no longer doubts -
that the Right Divine can be so risque.
'Egad ! It's not from God but goddess Nyx !'.
#8
"In purple and gold," sez the lurker,
"Dis upstart intelligence worker
Descends in a hurry!
His favor I'll curry
By dubbing him, 'Renaissance Burger!'"
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#9
Seriously, love your stuff, Dron, especially the prose (which is awfully poetical already). You've pretty much knocked old Naipaul off his dusty perch as my default explainer of things subcontinental. JohnQC, you too. Got that ramshackle rhythm that can't be faked (not by me, anyway). Didn't get it at first, but when I found myself hearing it in the (approximate) voice of Hickox45, the clouds parted and I was enlightened. More or less. Sniper. Almost missed that, you sneaky devil. JHH. Haunted, no shit, by those cat-eyes, etc. Lex. Word, law. What's to say? Thanks, all. Take that, rollover!
[Gateway Pundit] Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Friday in a Fox op-ed that the Deep State whistleblower who penned a complaint against Trump may not be a whistleblower at all ‐ it appears he is an American spy in our Intel Agency spying on President Trump.
This new Deep State hit began effervescing last week when House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) subpoenaed Acting DNI Joseph Maguire and accused him of illegally withholding a whistleblower complaint from Congress that could potentially be ’covering up the president’s misconduct’ over a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Gregg Jarrett questioned the Deep State snitch’s whistleblower status and suggested he may just be an American spy in our intel agency who is spying on our own President.
"To put this in plain language, a spy who allegedly spied on the president does not have a legitimate whistleblower complaint against that president under the law. The ICWPA is a mechanism to report alleged misconduct by members within the intelligence community, of which the president is not," Gregg Jarrett argued.
The identity of the Deep State ’whistleblower’ still has not been released to the public, however Trump revealed he is a ’highly partisan’ individual.
Gregg Jarrett pointed out the five following facts:
#1
I can't remember when I've seen such a "nothing story" circulated through the MSM with such vigor. There is no substantiation in the story (because there is nothing to substantiate) and if there were, it would still be a nothing story. O;K. I guess, RussiaGate/Spygate would be the benchmark for nothing stories.
It seems this story is based on Joe Biden trying to keep his candidacy alive and his son out of jail.
#2
The Dems can never win back the presidency or senate with their impeach Trump and go totally socialist platform. I for one am happy to sit back and watch them crash and burn.
#4
Our nation has rotted to the core. When a GS 12 seems to think he can spy on a president and bring him down for political purposes, our nation is lost. The rot is too thick. We need to go through this 4th turning, dust off the tools of the revolution and get this shit over.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Can you imagine the headlines we'd be reading if Ed Buck ...Big time Dem donor accused of being a homosexual predator. By the time the third party boy corpse is found OD'd in your house you need a really good lawyer really bad... was a Republican? You might even be wondering, who is Ed Buck? Reporting on his crimes has been less than enthusiastic up to this point, but given the pattern of behavior and the increase in frequency of the "incidents," the story cannot be ignored for much longer.
According to the police in West Hollywood, Ed Buck, a violent, dangerous sexual predator, lured homeless victims with money, drugs, and the promise of shelter to his home, where he apparently attempted to murder them with lethal injections of amphetamines. I generously used the word "apparently," since author Ian Fleming wrote, "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
On July 27, 2017, Gemmel Moore died of an "accidental overdose" at Buck's residence. Police decided not to press charges. Moore was only 26 years old. Then again in January of 2019, 55-year-old Timothy Dean allegedly died in Buck's house as the result of an overdose combined with alcohol toxicity. The coroner officially ruled that Dean's death was also an accidental overdose, but the newspaper headlines disturbingly suggested that a full fifteen minutes passed after Dean had become unresponsive, but before Buck called for an ambulance.
[USA Today] At a presidential climate change forum on Thursday, author and Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson floated the idea of a national mandatory year of service for young adults to tackle climate change. I thought we were done with Dems and Skittles-shitting Unicorns...
"I would like to ask your opinion, I think during the 'season of repair,' we should have a mandatory national service, one year, for people between 18 and 26 because we need you," Williamson said. "We need to fix this climate. We need to fix this country."
MSNBC's Ali Velshi asked the audience, which consisted mainly of students, to raise their hands if they liked the idea. "A few, alright."
Williamson smirked at the crowd's reaction.
"To save the country. It's not just the climate," she said.
The climate forum was hosted by MSNBC and Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, giving college students the opportunity to ask candidates questions. This is not the first time Williamson has mentioned of national service for young people. Her campaign website includes an outline of a program that would "be a way that every American citizen spends one year of their youth in service to the repair of our nation."
#1
Organization Todt, Germany, 1933-1945.... Arbeit Macht Frei with a Happy, Happy Face! Being volunteered for forced labor is uplifting for the soul, right?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Made possible by the sacrifice of over 250,000 yankee soldiers.
[WND] In "It's Not 'Identity Politics,' It's Anti-White Politics," I questioned whether the term "identity politics" vaguely comports with our racial politics on terra firma. The answer was a resounding "no."
For, "Whatever is convulsing the country, it's not identity politics. Blacks are not being pitted against Hispanics. Hispanics are not being sicced on Asians, and Ameri-Indians aren't being urged to attack the groups just mentioned. Rather, they're all piling on honky."
Since the ire of America's multicultural multitudes is directed exclusively at whites and their putative privilege, not at each other, anti-white animus is the more appropriate term.
The "identity politics" term is an elaborate construct hot-housed in the postmodernist university. Yet, commentators, conservatives too, cleave to abstracted definitions developed in citadels far removed from reality. Duly, the author of "Why Identity Politics Kills Democracy" harps on the "political selfishness" that comes with a "fanatical fetishization" of "group identity."
"A politics of whiteness is a scourge. A Hispanic politics is a scourge. An LGBT politics is a scourge. A plutocratic politics is a scourge. A feminist politics is a scourge." The only "true politics," bewails our author, is one that "unites individuals under a single identity: citizen."
That's when people who smell an opportunity climb the ladder by undercutting a more powerful white man start whispering outright lies and smears in the ears of the justice warriors, who then do the dirty work of bringing him down.
This is playing out behind the scenes now across thousands of corporate offices, entertainment companies, newsrooms and TV stations, and university faculties.
[Hot Air] Calls for legalizing marijuana aren’t new. Calls for taxing marijuana to produce revenue at the state level isn’t new. How about we legalize marijuana at the federal level, tax the marijuana industry and use that revenue to pay reparations to non-violent offenders? That’s new.
Yes, reparations for those who have served jail time for nonviolent marijuana charges. It’s the latest big idea coming out of Robert Francis O’Rourke’s presidential campaign.
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#3
"Names matter!" a brahmin of Allston
intoned. "Such distinctions are lost on
you micks, wops, and spooks,
Jews, latinxs, and gooks,
but the Hub is not 'Beantown,' it's Boston!"
Before Facebook there was FaceMash. Mark Zuckerberg founded FaceMash in his Harvard dorm room in 2003 and Facebook a year later. According to the Harvard Crimson, FaceMash used "photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine [Harvard] Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the "hotter" person. Having gone viral (at least by 2003 standards), the Harvard authorities stepped in, shut FaceMash down and charged Zuckerberg with breach of security, violating copyright, and violating individual privacy. The charges were later dropped.
Mark Zuckerberg remains proud of his hacker roots to this day.
Even now, Facebook’s campus is located at One Hacker Way. Zuckerberg may not run from these hacker roots, but what of the data privacy and security charges Harvard levied against him? Well, it seems that not much has changed in this regard wither. In November 2018, Facebook revealed that it had exposed photos belonging to 6.8 million consumers to third party app developers without permission. The next month, The New York Times revealed that Facebook had continued to share troves of personal information with some of the world’s largest corporations long after it had sworn to cut off access to the data. These are but two recent examples of Facebook’s difficult relationship with user privacy.
Facebook is not alone among its peer companies, but it is the poster child for Big Tech’s attitude toward privacy. Eric Schmidt of Google has displayed equal disdain for privacy in his public remarks, once famously boasting "We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." Sit on that one for a minute.
Having taken a hands off approach for years, there is a growing consensus among lawmakers that Big Tech must be reined in. But how? Most lawmakers now recognize that the nation’s privacy laws need to be modernized. Efforts are currently underway in the Senate Commerce Committee to craft legislation that would create a ’one-size-fits-all’ federal privacy standard for businesses, large and small.
Beyond privacy, a smaller group of lawmakers is calling for the break-up of internet platforms under the antitrust laws. Last week, a precedent setting 48 states announced an investigation into Google and the week before a smaller group announced an investigation into Facebook. These investigations will take time, years even, and it may be challenging to build a case against Big Tech under current antitrust case law, but it’s a start.
Force Google to disgorge DoubleClick and YouTube, and require DoubleClick Bid Manager to expose the bids to advertisers just as NASDAQ or the NYSE expose the bid/ask spread to trading firms.
#4
I believe that as part of the terms of use Facebook gets an non exclusive license to redistribute anything uploaded to it as it sees fit with no notice required.
#5
#1 Mark Zuckerberg said he would 'cooperate' with congressional antitrust investigation into Facebook as he faced legislators behind closed doors and was also quizzed on privacy and election security
...And by 'cooperate', he means asking, "How many zeroes on the check, Senator?"
Mike
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[American Thinker] In the 47 years since the last man set foot on the moon, the space program has changed a great deal. One of those changes has been incorporating mandated affirmative action policies. These policies have had an incredibly negative effect on both the progress in the space program and the engineers whose careers have been destroyed by them.
The federal government mandates that a given percentage of work on a government contract go to minority-owned businesses. When building a large and complicated system like a space vehicle, it is almost impossible for a company like Boeing or Lockheed to meet this requirement by hiring out specific design work to small, minority-owned companies. Even if that were feasible, those companies do not exist.
#1
IMO, from my experiences in academia, that Affirmative Action always promotes the worst members of the affirmed group. And, everyone, can see the same effect in politics. So, why not NASA?
#2
Even if that were feasible, those companies do not exist.
Neither do individual 'diversity hires' possessing both skills and integrity to entrust them with such enterprise.
And that there is the conclusion any logical admin would stop at. But not a committee of tribalists and naive apologists that would destroy hard won achievements of real people just to come to an office full of fist-bumping and strange hairdos.
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.
[Gateway Pundit] Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Friday in a Fox op-ed that the Deep State whistleblower who penned a complaint against Trump may not be a whistleblower at all ‐ it appears he is an American spy in our Intel Agency spying on President Trump.
...Big time Dem donor accused of being a homosexual predator. By the time the third party boy corpse is found OD'd in your house you need a really good lawyer really bad...
