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Never would have guessed Fort Lauderdale. I was there many years ago and it looked pretty nice.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Lived in Columbia on-and-off for over ten years; it has its good and bad points:
Good - Lovely scenery, nice parks and walking trails, conveinient shopping centers in almost every neighborhood.
Bad - Very restrictive HOAs; lovely scenery tends to make roads more twisty than they should be.
Also, not all of Columbia is low crime - especially the neighborhoods of Oakland Mills and Long Reach.
Posted by: Heavy G ||
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...Come on down to SC. It's safe and deep red, although Charleston and Columbia have strong LGTBWhatever scenes. The thing is though, that nobody down here is going to beat you over the head with their lifestyle.
Very retiree friendly, low cost of living, and the Second Amendment is revered here.
[BBC] This year, films and TV shows like Pearl and Bad Sisters are channelling female rage and questioning gendered stereotypes with their violent anti-heroines, writes Miriam Balanescu.
#5
Remember those videos showing packs of 'females' attacking people on the street or public transport? Is this the sort of "gender equality" the 'Progressives' want?
[YouTube] The myth of the J6 “insurrection” is still believed by a lot of idiots. Don’t be those idiots. Be vigilant.
#TerrencePopp #FreeJeremyBrown #J6
[TheAge] My phone pings. A friend request from the guy I went on a date with. I feel a sense of dread as I flick through his photos. My shoulders tense and rise to my ears before I let out a sigh of relief – he has friends of colour. I find comfort in having no friends.
I have all kinds of friends, which goes with having a wide variety of interests — and belonging to several minorities pretty much guarantees that most of my friends are not like me in one or more significant ways. Picking friends solely based on the colour of their skins is racist.
The older I get, the more I find myself scanning the crowd to find faces like mine. Children of immigrants, those with a mixed heritage and third culture kids.
Apparently third culture kids are those who grow up in a culture not their parents’, i.e. the first generation children of immigrants and expats, who do not feel completely a part of either the Olde Countrie or the New. The term dates back to 1950s sociology studies of the childen of expats in India. Mr. Wife and I, as two of the many children of immigrants in our respective milieus, and the trailing daughters, as expats during the first stage of their childhood, were third culture kids — along with tens of millions of others in America and elsewhere. We found it enriching, unlike Ms Sullivan.
We gravitate towards each other with a sense of solidarity, even if our cultures are vastly different. It feels good to know we have shared experiences, from being familiar with the feeling that you have to assimilate to whiteness, to knowing to remove your shoes before you enter a house.
What the poor darling is suffering from is limited experience. Everywhere one goes the social rules are different, and must be learnt — this has nothing to do with whiteness or any other colour, but is just part of the fun of going to new places.
Being half white and growing up in a very Anglo-Saxon suburb, this hasn’t always been the case. In high school, I clung to my white privilege as it allowed me to laugh off comments like “you’re not really Asian” or “you don’t count”. Read the rest at the link
#3
If you don't have a friend who drives a pickup, that's a red flag. And I don't mean some tricked out oversized flatbed with monster wheels and not a speck of dirt on the thing.
#9
I think they need to take demographics into account. What if there are few people of color where you live. How far does one need to drive looking to tick that box before they get a pass?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Sad that this mind has been bent to need color as a component of assessing friendship. The weak, untutored mind needs dogma as a crutch, and the diversity faith is exactly that, dogmatic.
#12
Really no different than needing a neck tattoo or a staple hanging from her lip to feel good about herself.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/13/2022 14:56 Comments ||
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Emma Sullivan. Among the people I have never heard of and am happy to keep it that way.
Posted by: Tom ||
10/13/2022 15:13 Comments ||
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Oh, sn...ore! Might it not be more relevant
For color-adjacent Ms. Sullivan
To open her mind,
Since she seems to be blind,
By exploring a token white elephant?
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Reminds me of a man I knew who got disciplined for swapping hats with a female midshipman before march on for the Army Navy game. He got a special name tag made up with the initials TV and wore it to restriction muster. I asked him if he got busted for having a television in his dorm room. He let me know that the TV was for transvestite. I guess he was ahead of his time.
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[Powerline] Derek Chauvin could not afford an attorney to appeal his convictions in the case of George Floyd. Chauvin’s insurance did not extend to appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court denied him a public defender. Although I thought Chauvin could not have received a fair trial in Hennepin County, it looked like he wouldn’t be able to raise the issue on appeal either.
I put out the call on Power Line for some member of the Minnesota bar to represent Chauvin on appeal. In the best tradition of the American legal profession, my friend Bill Mohrman answered the call. Chauvin’s legal defense fund is here at GiveSendGo.
I spoke to Bill this morning about the appeal. The state’s brief was written by a team of lawyers led by Neal Katyal, volunteering his and his firm’s services to the prosecution of Chauvin. Katyal is easily one of the most prominent appellate lawyers in the United States. I asked Bill if he didn’t feel like he was up against Goliath. He laughed, which I interpreted in the affirmative. He said he thought that "everyone is entitled to an attorney representing him." He added, "If we’re getting away from that in this country, we’re in big trouble."
Briefing of the appeal was completed last week. Bill anticipates that oral argument will be scheduled before a panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals in January. I should note that they are elected judges who must be cognizant of the consequences of decision requiring retrial at a venue outside Hennepin County. It wouldn’t be pretty.
The Hennepin County District Court page on the Chauvin case is here. It affords access to each of the appellate briefs including Appellant’s Brief (Chauvin), Respondent’s Brief (the state or the prosecution), and Appellant’s Reply Brief.
Virtually every time I wrote about the trial on Power Line I noted the riots that preceded it, the riots that occurred during it, and the concrete and barbed-wire construction around the courthouse that gave visible form to the lynch-mob atmosphere of the proceedings. National Guard troops were stationed outside the courthouse along with two armored personnel carriers.
Security concerns were such that the jurors assembled at an undisclosed location each morning during the trial and were driven to and from the courthouse by Hennepin County Sheriff’s officers in unmarked vans. The Star Tribune reported: "The unprecedented effort aimed at protecting jurors from danger and outside influence cost $21,905 in van rentals."
One more thing. Governor Walz began deploying National Guard troops around Minneapolis and St. Paul as early as Wednesday, April 14, 2021-before jury sequestration-in the event riots occurred "post verdict," as Bill puts it at page 29 of Appellant’s Brief. "Post verdict" should be translated as "in the unlikely event of a not guilty verdict." Everyone in his right mind understood the secondary effects of a not guilty verdict.
Bill does a good job of leading with the pretrial publicity, security issues, and other events that precluded a fair trial. Bill relies on the two-tier analysis set forth in the United States Supreme Court’s Skilling case to argue that prejudice should have been presumed under the circumstances of this case. Turning to the state’s brief, this statement leaps out at me on page 17 (footnote omitted):
The United States Supreme Court has likewise cautioned that a presumption of prejudice applies only in "the extreme case"—such as those involving "kangaroo court proceedings," "bedlam," a "carnival atmosphere," or a disturbing lack of "judicial serenity." Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358, 379-381 (2010) (cleaned up).
Again, that is the state speaking in Respondent’s Brief on the law applicable to Chauvin’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial under controlling case law.
This is me speaking. If this wasn’t the extreme case, there never was one and there will never be one.
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The overcharging and guilty verdict by an intimidated community for the self-induced drug death of a resisting criminal suspect is a travesty. Chauvin is not a paragon of police virtue or compassion, but he is a victim of public officials desperate to stop massive racial violence destroying the community. He does not deserve the severity of a sentence proposed by prosecutors to quell public anger and delivered by terrified jurors desperate to protect themselves. Like J6, a justice system perverted by political necessity rather than truth.
[Breitbart] The worsening "economic collapse" of America is being done "by design," Monica Crowley stated on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
"This is all by design," Crowley remarked. "We are already in a technical recession, two straight quarters of negative growth."
Democrats are manufacturing an economic catastrophe as a pretext for further centralization of power and control in the hands of government and aligned industries, Crowley assessed.
She said, "They are simply buying time, because they know things are going to get much worse. Again, it’s all intentional, because they need that period of time of really bad economic collapse in order to slam through their socialist agenda."
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In a long, diplomatic response, the Saudis first denied that the OPEC decision has anything to do with America’s mid-term elections, and then they opened the curtain on Biden’s recent trip a teeny-tiny bit:
… the Government of the Kingdom clarified through its continuous consultation with the US Administration that all economic analyses indicate that postponing the OPEC+ decision for a month, according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences.
“Postponing the … decision for A MONTH … has been suggested.”
What’s clear from that statement is that, when Biden visited the Saudis, he didn’t ask them not to reduce the supply. Biden asked them to only POSTPONE the decision to reduce supply — for ONE SINGLE MONTH. Until after the mid-terms.
Biden wasn’t trying to lower gas prices for CONSUMERS. He was trying to lower gas prices for DEMOCRATS. For just a month.
Posted by: Billy B ||
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Total quid pro quo: a lying POTUS deliberately hurting the country in order to help him and his party politically. Biden is such a disgraceful bag of shit.
If Trump had pulled such a stunt they would have crucified him.
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It is a true miracle that the world's economy hasn't already collapsed some decades ago. Duct tape and deficit spending are all that keeps it together.
[ThreadReaderApp] DOJ wants 30 days in jail for the parents and 21 days in jail for their young adult children.
Presiding judge is Chief Judge Beryl Howell. This is part of DOJs evidence:
DOJ explaining to judge that the Munns were on social media after Jan 6 to express they were "excited" about what happened. "January 6 was not something people should be excited about," prosecutor says.
Judge interrupts - "proud of?"
Howell asking why adult children...
shouldn't get same jail time as parents.
LOL: Prosecutor wants 3 years probation IN ADDITION to jail so government can make sure the children "get on the straight and narrow" after being misled by their parents by going into the Capitol.
DOJ wants probation into 2024 election.
Howell: Kristi Munn "perpetuated" false information on social media about what happened on January 6. She saw police "bleeding" and using flash grenades.
Howell asking why she deleted social media accounts.
Howell now asking about a photo of Kristi using a 3%er sign, calling...
it a "right wing militia group." Howell demanding to know how Kristi Munn didn't know what it was.
THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA.
Howell is of course an open partisan, hates Trump, and was appointed by Obama. She refers to J6ers as "rioters" even tho no one charged with "riot."
Joshua Munn has now separated himself from his family, his attorney explains.
Howell explains long probation is necessary for the "safety of our democracy, country generally, that they are no longer tempted by politicians to engage in political violence that interrupts the...
the peaceful transition of power or our elections."
No one in the Munn family is accused of attacking police, vandalizing property. In fact, there's evidence they tried to get out, help police, and pick up debris.
Howell also was chief judge overseeing Mueller probe.
Lawyer up now for Kayli Munn. She was 18 at the time, a high school senior. DOJ wants her in jail for 21 days. I can only imagine what her life has been like since this cruel DOJ took aim at her family.
Howell: "Did she follow her father's social media postings before the trip?"
Howell: He was "open" that his plan was to "march" on the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6.
Apparently that's not 1A protected in Howell's courtroom.
Howell now accusing Kayli of lying to FBI. "She claims to have seen antifa? But couldn't explain what antifa looked like? What am I...
supposed to make of that? Seems like she was making stuff up? How seriously was she taking the FBI if she was making stuff up?"
Kayli not charged with lying to the FBI but that isn't stopping Howell from making accusations from the bench.
Howell's comments are purely political.
"There are still a lot of conspiracy theories floating on social media by responsible media" related to Jan 6. People are susceptible to believing "weird stuff."
Public defender agrees, says it's a struggle with his other Jan 6 clients---what's coming from "rational media." LOL
Last year, Howell noted the "parading" charge is a class B misdemeanor, a petty offense, that the DC District Court never before dealt with. But now it consumes the time of the DC court while allowing vile partisans like Howell to berate Trump supporters for their beliefs.
Kristi Munn apologizing to court and the "country" for what she did. "We were not thinking."
Joshua Munn doesn't make a statement. (He submitted a letter to court.)
Kayli Munn: "I want to apologize for my actions that day. My parents raised me to be a good person."
Howell: "What were you trying to do?"
Kayli: Have our voices heard, if the election was "truthful." We wanted to right our wrongs. We had in our heads we were fighting a "monster."
Howell: "Who is the monster? You understand everyone is an American, right?"
Kayli: Yes.
Howell about to sentence. "This is a serious offense even though it's a petty offense. This was a shocking event" that had consequences "around the world."
Howell: What happened on January 6 was NOT first amendment protected speech, it was not legitimate protest, it was a...
CATASTROPHIC security breach of our Capitol with thousands of people with no screening."
Howell raises a DM message by Kayli joking about not getting arrested. Father posted about marching to the US Capitol.
"But it was gonna be wild," Howell says, citing Trump.
Howell erroneously claims police were using "non lethal" weapons to stop the riot. She obviously forgot about Ashli Babbitt. (Her voice just drips with condescension and arrogance.)
"They made themselves at home." Howell walking thru all the Munns' behavior inside the bldg More at the link.
[Townhall] It's Kurt.
BLUF:
A soft divorce is already underway.
But it won't be enough. They cannot let us be. They cannot have our sanity, competence, and happiness providing a devastating counter-example to the mess they are making. Already, sensible Hispanic Americans are moving to our side in droves because they don't want to be ruled by losers. To save their own tenuous grip on power, for they control almost all of our failing institutions at the moment, they must stamp out our uppity resistance. We can see it in the trash FBI arresting innocent abortion protestors, in Silicon Valley moguls trying to control what we say, and in the media trying to otherize normal people while trying to normalize weirds like The Lump running for Senate in Pennsylvania. But these things are not what the strong side does. They are what the weak do when they fear they are losing their grip.
And they are losing their grip. There is not going to be a national divorce. There is going to be a national backlash, a backlash against the stupid, corrupt, and evil ideology of the left. We normal people are not going anywhere. We're not chopping up our country any more than we are going to tolerate these monsters chopping up our little kids. We will not divorce them. We will defeat them. And it will be glorious.
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"We will not divorce them. We will defeat them. And it will be glorious"
“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
An entire WaPo Magazine article of Democrat lamentations-in-advance at the link.
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I started reading the article and realized their fear of the next Trump Presidency is Trump would do what Obama did: Pack the GIVERnment with Loyalists.
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logo on hats will change to MAGGA 2 MAKE AMERIKA GREATLY GULLIBLE AGAIN! working on maggo/at acronym any help from NAW NOW ZAD ZOD map girls will have consideration go UMERIKA!
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#3 logo on hats will change to MAGGA 2 MAKE AMERIKA GREATLY GULLIBLE AGAIN! working on maggo/at acronym any help from NAW NOW ZAD ZOD map girls will have consideration go UMERIKA!
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 2022-10-13 05:37
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Just skimming -
“Trump has been able to add to the narrative that if democracy doesn’t deliver what I want, then it must be a flaw in the democracy,” says (the) Freedom House, a nonpartisan democratic advocacy group
You mean like changing the voting laws, the Supreme Court, Second Amendment restrictions, changing school curriculum, adding genders, defunding and demoralizing police, opening the southern border, (I'm tired now..)
Posted by: Bobby ||
10/13/2022 8:45 Comments ||
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If Trumps win, experts will be forced to play "Truth or Wheel of Death!"
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#5 MikeK
Ha Ha "smell toast" . Had to look that on up.
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If Trump wins they'll find that the bag of tricks that worked last time no longer works. That the RINOs in Washington have mostly been replaced by two elections worth of loyal Republicans and there will be a lot of them as the GOP will dominate the next two election cycles at least.
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RINOs in Washington have mostly been replaced by two elections worth of loyal Republicans and there will be a lot of them as the GOP will dominate the next two election cycles at least.
Don't hold your breath. The GOP isn't called the stupid party for nothing and there are still enough Mitch McConnells and Grahams to fuck up the works. The threat of a serious primary contender may help keep them in line.
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.
I am not certain they will accept us. Perhaps we should land at a different clearing. 
But it won't be enough. They cannot let us be. They cannot have our sanity, competence, and happiness providing a devastating counter-example to the mess they are making. Already, sensible Hispanic Americans are moving to our side in droves because they don't want to be ruled by losers. To save their own tenuous grip on power, for they control almost all of our failing institutions at the moment, they must stamp out our uppity resistance. We can see it in the trash FBI arresting innocent abortion protestors, in Silicon Valley moguls trying to control what we say, and in the media trying to otherize normal people while trying to normalize weirds like The Lump running for Senate in Pennsylvania. But these things are not what the strong side does. They are what the weak do when they fear they are losing their grip.
