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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Who was James T. Hodgkinson and where did he go ?
[Daily Caller] We’ve been hearing a lot about "right-wing violence" lately. If we’re to believe our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters, there’s a Klansman on every street corner and a Nazi under every bed. There’s nothing more terrifying than a "white nationalist" who lives in his mom’s basement, which is why it’s okay for feral Antifa children to beat these guys up and drench them with balloons filled with piss. It’s "self-defense."

But what happens when an act of violence is irrefutably motivated by left-wing ideology? What happens if, for example, a Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shoots at a bunch of congressmen for the explicit reason that he hates Republicans and wants them dead? How do we fit that into the preferred narrative?

We can’t. There’s no way. So we just leave it out entirely.

I’m glad Rep. Scalise is on the mend. But as I read that WSJ story, I can’t help but notice there’s no mention whatsoever of who shot him, or why. He’s recovering after "being shot." Passive voice. A gun went off and a bullet hit him. No other details.

Who was the shooter? What was the motive? Did it just happen on its own, somehow? Is this normally how the WSJ reports on politicians who’ve been shot?

If James T. Hodgkinson had been a Trump supporter who shot and almost killed a Democratic congressman for political reasons, he’d be the most infamous man in America. But now, just two months after his attempt to murder a group of Republican lawmakers, he’s not even worth mentioning.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think the press is sad that Hodgkinson didn’t succeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 07:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet another 'inconvenient truth.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't you understand that guns attack people all by themselves? It's why we need gun control.
(I hope I don't have to say sarcasm...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/28/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Say, huh?
Posted by: Clem || 08/28/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Coming Age of Magic
[PJMEDIA] The coast-to-coast solar eclipse that crossed the US in 2017 revealed some interesting insights into some people's thinking. One rapper, perhaps attempting to emulate a similar reported feat by president Trump, deliberately stared at the sun without protective glasses with unfortunate effects. Others took precautions against retinal damage but not of the right kind. Bruce Lee at Forbes reports that some patients were admitted in Ohio for putting sunscreen on their eyeballs. "This is not the way you are supposed to use sunscreen. The directions on a sunscreen bottle typically do not say: 1. Open bottle 2. Squeeze some sunscreen on your fingers and hands. 3. Put on eyeballs."

We might be tempted to laugh at other people's ignorance but should we? The Great American Eclipse drew an estimated audience of 220 million people. "It's so far the largest crowd to witness the rare total solar eclipse in the history of eclipses." Never in history have so many of the ordinary been exposed to the extraordinary. When 200 million people look up at the sky some of them are going to smear sunscreen on their eyeballs.

Can the common man cope with the esoteric? Two hundred years ago the average person probably understood virtually everything he encountered in daily life. Today the average person is surrounded by objects far more complex than the Apollo 11 guidance computer. Under those circumstances, as help desk workers all over the world will attest, technical ignorance is the rule rather than the exception.

Modern smart devices are purposely designed to be operated even by an idiot. Technology has allowed the burden of intelligence to be shifted away from the user to the machine. As a result people routinely use tools they barely understand implicitly believing they will work. It works but there's a danger. As Arthur C. Clarke famously observed, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". In our high technology present an increasing percentage of the global population must relate to their world in terms of magic.

Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not much Magic without power.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2017 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I have a refurbished iPhone. I can't get it to plant seeds or herd cattle. I can't find an application for that.
Posted by: Ulains Thuque6389 || 08/28/2017 3:12 Comments || Top||

#3  An excellent post at Belmont Club. Here's the money quote that made my brain click for hours yesterday:

This idea we should be protected from our own choices may have taken deeper root than commonly realized. The right of everyone to be stupid AND avoid the consequences has become mainstreamed as the equality of outcomes. Liberation from causality is the cornerstone of "compassion", consequently it is the fundamental positive right offered by all paternalistic states.


I would add one thing to Wretchard's commentary: Many forms of magic require instruments of magical power for the magic to work. Even the wizards of Harry Potter's world require wands to function. The core rage of the mystical Left is that Trump and the Deplorables have seized the Magic Cauldron of Federal Government.
Posted by: ptah || 08/28/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Two lines from it that stand out:
"As every believer of magic knows enchanted objects and special words are the key to changing reality. One destroys white supremacy by toppling statues of Stonewall Jackson, just like a voodoo doll."
"The belief that a college degree provides an exit ramp out poverty, whether the recipient of the degree received any substantive education or not is eerily similar to the cargo cult belief that "ritualistic acts such as the building of an airplane runway will result in the appearance of material wealth".
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/28/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Greenfield: The church of the left
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

The First Amendment assumes that the proper sphere of government is policies, not values. And so it protects the right of political participation and prohibits a state church that would define values.

The government had the right to decide to go to war with France. It did not have a right to decide what you should believe. Politics extended into the realm of policies, not beliefs.

But as religious belief declined, politics replaced it as the repository of moral and ethical values. This transformation began on the left. The left was the least religious in the traditional sense. And the most likely to build up an ideology of secular values with which to displace traditional religious values.

The last century witnessed an extensive effort to scrub religious values out of government. But this effort was matched by an equally comprehensive project to replace them with the left’s own values. Unlike the wall between church and state, there were few legal safeguards against writing values into legislation if they were irreligious ones. The church was deemed to be the true threat. Not the state.

But the end result looks very much like an establishment of religion. Even in the church sense.

The values written into the legislation reflect those of certain churches, but not others. When nuns are forced to pay for birth control and Christian photographers with traditional beliefs are compelled to participate in gay weddings, the government is picking religious establishment “winners and losers”.

The winners are roughly on the religious left and the losers on the religious right.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 08/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The church of the left and the moral cowardice of the "right".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  And the church of the left achieves a lot through guilt and sense of sin.
You thought unkind thought - maybe you even thought the N word - when encountering a group of black youts. Sin! Penitence (doing what we - the priests of the new religion - tell you)!
You felt disgust meeting an "in your face" homosexual. Sin! Penitence!
You saw a bunch of obvious illegals and thought "They don't belong here - this is my country". Sin!
And, of course, there are indulgences for sale. And the laws are different for Princes of the Church, of course.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 2:18 Comments || Top||

#3  One is hard-pressed to determine what the church/body politic of the left is since it is based on political correctness and victimhood which are ever-changing.

The First Amendment assumes that the proper sphere of government is policies, not values.

It is doubtful that policy can be pursued without values to guide it. We see the outcome of pursuing scientific policy without a moral base--we end up with a corrupted process with faked memes and faked research for political purposes.

Worse than the schism of politics and religion which we have is a theocratic form of government which unifies government policy with religion.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/28/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump's pardon of Arpaio sends strong messages to immigrant advocates, Mueller team, loyalists
[Wash Times] President Trump’s pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has set off a new round of recriminations, with Republicans saying they disagreed with the decision and Democrats saying it was an unforgivable abuse of power that presages still more political mischief.

Several anti-Trump lawmakers said the president was sending a signal to the Justice Department -- and even to special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian meddling in the election -- that he is willing to go to great lengths to protect political allies.

Immigrant rights activists, meanwhile, said the president’s pardon was dismaying for Hispanics who for years had protested the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, and who mobilized en masse last year to defeat Mr. Arpaio, who was seeking a seventh term in office.

"It is disheartening that [the president] set the bar so very low for his first pardon," said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the senior Democrat in the Senate. "It is a shame to see the pardon power devalued like this. The ex-sheriff is a self-aggrandizing braggart who promoted racist law enforcement practices and cost taxpayers millions, and that is a reason they did not re-elect him."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 00:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A butt-hurt Senator Patrick Leahy? Where's the downside ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  To me it just says that Trump will be using the few powers remaining to a POTUS* in his fight against the New Class - which controls the (all powerful) bureaucracy.

*In Obama's era we were constantly surprised in what Obama could get away with - but that wasn't because the power of his office, but because he fully shared the goals of the New Class - including the goal of living high on public means.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  "The remedy for those who disagree with the pardon is at the ballot box.”

And the remedy for those who disagree with rulings in a criminal court is appellate court - not pardon.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 08/28/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  And the remedy for those who disagree with rulings in a criminal court is appellate court

Which will take years.

By that time the parade will have moved on, and so will the barking dogs.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/28/2017 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Depot, I've posted "Conservatism Is Not A Suicide Pact" in opinion, which addresses your arguments in polite & thoughtful fashion.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  ....which addresses your arguments in polite & thoughtful fashion.

g(r)om, are you in... transition ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  I beg your pardon?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8   Depot, I've posted "Conservatism Is Not A Suicide Pact" in opinion, which addresses your arguments in polite & thoughtful fashion.

WADR grom, the author of that piece appears to be an opportunistic RINO hunter with an Alinskey fetish. None of his numerous logical fallacy arguments refute that Arapio didn't willfully disregard a legal ruling and was in contempt of court. He also conviently ommited Arapio's legal options (beyond a pardon) still available. Sorry, I don't agree with the author that the rule of law is a "unicorn". Nor do I agree that elected officials that disregard the law should be exonerated out of loyalty or symbolism.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 08/28/2017 13:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Have it your way
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 14:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Most everyone subjected to jury duty has 'contempt for court'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2017 17:01 Comments || Top||

#11  A lot of dope pushers were pardoned by Zero. A lot of them.

The ignorant who complain about the President's support of law enforcement officers such as this Sheriff can, and will, rot in hell
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/28/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||


Glenn K. Beaton: There were no good guys at Charlottesville
[ASPENTIMES] "Two sides" didn't produce the horrifying violence at Charlottesville. There were many sides. All were bad in varying degrees.

The worst of the bad guys, of course, was the homicidal loser who drove a car into a crowd of people for the purpose of killing as many as he could. This is the guy who once assaulted his mother and was drummed out of the Army after four months.

The next worst were the neo-Nazis. Yes, other groups are equally violent, equally racist, equally hateful and equally stupid. But neo-Nazis are in a special category because their predecessors -- the ones that were just as violent, racist and hateful but not as stupid -- nearly succeeded in plots of worldwide genocide and totalitarianism.

Neo-Nazis are even worse than the originals in some ways. The originals mistakenly believed they were in the right, while the new ones know they're not. Nazism is not the political philosophy of the neos -- what do these morons know about politics or philosophy? -- but is just an excuse for being ugly.

The next worst at Charlottesville were the groups that have coalesced like sticky grime under the pseudo-mysterious and grandiloquent name "Antifa." That's evidently supposed to be a contraction of "anti-fascism
...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...

The Orwellian irony to Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
and their name is that they're not anti-fascist at all. They're fascists. Like other fascists, they censor, shout down and sometimes physically assault anyone they don't like.

And like all fascists, their rationale for their violent rhetoric and actions is that they're right and their victims are wrong, and so shut up.

Some of the Antifa fascists and some of the neo-Nazi fascists were at Charlottesville for the express purpose of picking fights in front of TV cameras. That's what fascists do. These two groups with much in common succeeded in their common objective.

The next-worst were the politicians. The mayor of Charlottesville and the governor of Virginia apparently gave advance orders for the cops not to intervene in the anticipated violence.

This misguided order originates in the myth propagated in some political quarters that, as between a guy with a baseball bat who wants to beat the daylights out of a bystander and a guy with a badge who wants to stop him, the latter is the bad guy. And if only the latter will stay clear of the former, the former will put away the bat.

It's time to reaffirm what we all used to know -- that the thin blue line of guys with badges who are sometimes killed are the good guys. At Charlottesville, the politicians ordered these good guys not to do their job.

Next is the media. CNN, for example, has gone from a respected news source to a lame and partisan propaganda machine at endless war with President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
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The media didn't exactly cause Charlottesville. But they have legitimized violence in the name of "resistance" to the president duly elected by people that the media thinks are too stupid to elect the candidate whom the media chose and too stupid to see the media chose one.

This media is not only biased, but cheap. Before the dead woman was even buried, the media had already shifted away from news and onto their anti-Trump propagandizing. News reporting is difficult and expensive, but propagandizing is easy and cheap -- it requires no more than a free talking head talking out of his fat, lazy butt.
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think it's just the opposite. We know that nazis and commies are bad. But the politicians and media are still hiding behind the fantasy they are the good guys.

The worst of the bad guys are:

1) The media, because they deliberately withheld important facts about the story. Then they focused on Trump's reaction to it and accused him of sympathizing with nazis. They ignored the obvious story which was the police not doing their job. Their obvious intent was to slant the news to make Trump look bad even though Trump had nothing whatsoever to do with it.

2) The Charlottesville mayor and police chief and the governor of Virginia because their job is to maintain law and order. They didn't just fail, they deliberately refused to do their jobs. The obvious and highly important question the MSM refused to ask these people was "Are you really that stupid or did you want violence so you could blame it on Trump?"

3) Antifa and BLM were determined to keep the white whatever-you-call-them from exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech and assembly.

4) The white whatever-you-call-them. Nobody likes these people but that doesn't matter. If they lose their right to free speech we all lose it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/28/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#2  What everyone seems to be forgetting is that the whole thing was started by a group of First Amendment advocates who didn't want history erased, not by neo-Nazis, white supremacists, alt-righters, Brown Shirters of various flavours on the left, and the rest. There really were good guys at Charlottesville, but the mayor and governor fed them to the jackels -- with the assistance of the police.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2017 14:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Once again a reasonable voice of reason.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2017 18:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Ex-PM must stop assailing institutions
[DAWN] NAWAZ Sharif wants to have his cake and eat it too.

He wants to have his party’s government in power and yet behave as if he is in the opposition. He wants to talk about strengthening institutions and democracy while relentlessly attacking the very institutions of democracy. This must stop.

The speech Mr Sharif gave to an audience of lawyers on Friday was unwise and unacceptable. It is clear that the Supreme Court judgement which ousted Mr Sharif from the prime ministership is flawed and controversial.

Mr Sharif is rightly aggrieved and some of the questions he raised on Friday are pertinent to his family’s continuing legal difficulties.

A superior court judge monitoring a trial court’s proceedings against a defendant who the superior court has already declared to be unfit to hold public office appears to violate the principles of justice and due process.

Yet, Mr Sharif’s broadsides against the judiciary and dark allusions to threats against the democratic order are counterproductive.

Beyond the venting of personal grievances in public, it is not clear that the former prime minister has a strategy to strengthen the democratic order. A month since his ouster, the most Mr Sharif and his inner circle have been able to suggest is the need for a constitutional amendment to the qualification and disqualification criteria of parliamentarians.

While clarity is needed on the matter, the PML-N’s motives hardly appear to be altruistic. Indeed, the suggestion that a constitutional amendment be applied retrospectively to allow Mr Sharif to once again participate in electoral politics indicates that the PML-N continues to misjudge the national mood and is willing to deepen the political crisis simply to save its own leader.

Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


A militarised state
[DAWN] THERE’S nothing like a dose of patriotism and nationalism to muddle the senses. We’ve just been told what kind of country Pakistain will be, but all we can think is, Trump said what?

How dare he!

Well, dare Trump did and on we’ve cheered our boys for thundering back. We’ve shown him! Except, they -- the boys -- have shown us. Shown us what kind of country Pakistain will be.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Terror Networks
Philippines' Duterte says police can kill 'idiots' who resist arrest
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told police on Monday they could kill "idiots" who violently resist arrest, two days after hundreds of people turned the funeral of a slain teenager into a protest against his deadly war on drugs.

Duterte broke off midway through a prepared speech at the Hero’s Cemetery on the outskirts of Manila and addressed impromptu comments to Jovie Espenido, the police chief of a town in the south where the mayor was killed in an anti-drugs raid.

"Your duty requires you to overcome the resistance of the person you are arresting... (if) he resists, and it is a violent one... you are free to kill the idiots, that is my order to you," Duterte told the police officer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 01:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...and people think Trump's a loose cannon?
Posted by: Raj || 08/28/2017 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  And of course Trump is personally throwing stones and certain people in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Clem || 08/28/2017 16:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Conservatism Is Not A Suicide Pact
h/t Instapundit
[Townhall] The whiny wailing and rending of garments (mostly bow ties) by the True Cons over President Trump pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio brings to mind another president’s choice when a loyal supporter was the victim of a liberal witch hunt. President Bush was an honorable man, but the way he allowed Scooter Libby and the Libby family to be ruined and impoverished over what everyone knew was a skeevy liberal political vendetta before issuing a partial commutation is to W’s lasting shame. His excuse: the Rule of Law or something.

But, as anyone willing to see knows, today the Rule of Law is a unicorn and it has been for a long time. I like the Rule of Law, and I’ve been warning for years about what happens when it goes away. Yet we are where we are, whether we like it or not. We’re in a land where the law is only intermittently and selectively applicable. Allowing allies to suffer in an effort to pretend that all is well is not going to bring the Rule of Law back. Nostalgia for the Rule of Law no excuse for tolerating an injustice to an ally. Hell, undoing injustices is what the pardon power is for.

What will bring the Rule of Law back? How do we get to the Conserva-Eden we are expected to act like we already reside it? Perhaps another statement of principle? Maybe another post on some unread conservajournal? I know ‐ how about more complaining about how frustrated conservatives are uncouth and should just sit there and take whatever fascist garbage the left dishes out?

...My plan is to cause the left so much pain by applying their new rules to them that they give up trying to grind their Birkenstocks into our faces forever. Yes, as a practical matter that means allying with President Trump, guy I formerly criticized in detail and without restraint, and who was my 16th of 17 choices in the primary (Jeb! was last because he’s an insufferable wuss and I won’t suffer him).

See, I reject the notion we are ever somehow morally obligated by conservative principles to lose to liberals. If I have to swallow something awful, I’ll take half a loaf any day over an entire loaf of liberal dung like Felonia von Pantsuit. I think the new rules are terrible, and they are antithetical to everything I’ve worked for since before many of my Fredocon critics were a tinge of regret growing in their mommies’ bellies the morning after. But I refuse to sit back and allow libs to be victorious because I won’t dirty my hands fighting fire with fire. If that makes me not conservative enough for some, I can live with that. I can’t live with leftist tyranny.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 08:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Belgarath: I prefer simpler terms.
Garion: "Good vs. Evil"?
Belgarath: "Us against Them".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||

#2  "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking" Gen George S. Patton
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/28/2017 14:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Arpaio was in law enforcement.
I understand it may be a matter of debate whether he did facial profiling or not.

But the fact is: He ignored court orders and publicly bragged about not following court orders.

And that's not what a law enforcement officer does.

Posted by: European Conservative || 08/28/2017 20:52 Comments || Top||

#4  racial (although facial isn't entirely wrong)
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/28/2017 20:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Law enforcement officers sworn duty is to enforce laws derived from the Constitution. Not to follow court orders that favor anti-constitutionalists who want as many globalist, foreign nationals canceling US Citizen votes to put pro-US Citizen officers like him out of national, state, and local office.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/28/2017 22:12 Comments || Top||

#6  So they may chose which court orders to follow and which ones not?

Be careful what you wish for. Presidents change.
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/28/2017 22:31 Comments || Top||


Tucker: NFL Players Going ‘Out Of Their Way' To Show ‘How Much They Hate' America [VIDEO]
[Daily Caller] NFL players refusing to stand for the national anthem are going out of their way to show how much they hate America, Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson said Thursday evening.

"We’re only two weeks in the NFL preseason and many of the league’s richest players have gone out of the way to let you know how much they hate your country," Carlson said. "On Monday, a dozen members of the Cleveland Browns refused to stand for the national anthem because racism or something."

Carlson then highlighted Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill’s viral Facebook post in which he said that players who kneel during the national anthem "disrespect the veterans who earned them the right to be on that field." O’Neal, as Carlson pointed out, is a Vietnam veteran.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 07:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It appears a very high percentage of NFL donated brains are found to have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) injuries. Contributing 'hate-rage' link or unrelated factor ?

Due to the cross-gender (non-NFL) occurrence, something tells me CTE is unrelated and stand-alone. Let the donations continue. Much more could be learned and shared, if sensitivities permit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  This is exactly how we ended up with soetoro. People who just don't know any better slavishly supporting the NFL. I gave up on it entirely when it became the No Firearms League, but lots of "good 'ol boys (and gals)" just gotta support their team, no matter how noxious the organization or its employees become.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2017 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ...tribes. Now coming to understand why so many non-slave holders fought for their state? They were betrayed by 'management' as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  ...tribes. Now coming to understand why so many non-slave holders fought for their state?

Prescient outcomes ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  America will hate them back and the NFL will go down with them and they'll have to get regular jobs that pay far, far, far less. Good luck with that.

Do they really need adults to explain this sort of thing?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/28/2017 8:29 Comments || Top||

#6  From February of this year, hard numbers on the television ratings drop, and why it won't really matter to the team owners for a while. Key bits:

NFL ratings were down all season, and there’s no reason to think they’ll get better next year

[Recode] Football was down 9 percent during the regular season and 6 percent during the playoffs.

Sure, this could be a temporary blip and NFL ratings could come back next year. But there’s really no reason to think that.

It’s much more logical to assume that NFL ratings, like all other TV ratings, are under pressure because audiences have many more choices -- Snapchat, Facebook, Clash of Clans, etc. — and they are using those choices.

The argument that live events or live sports or the NFL are immune to that pressure seems like wishful thinking from industries that have bet many billions on that theory being true.

But! That doesn’t mean NFL games aren’t incredibly valuable to TV networks — in part because of the pressure on overall ratings. Even a weakened NFL dominates TV ratings, so if you want to reach a truly mass audience, NFL games are still the go-to choice for advertisers.

And when the next big NFL TV contracts start rolling over in 2021 and 2022, you will certainly see bidding from big digital players like Amazon and Google/Alphabet, who will want a piece of that audience themselves.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  I was at the Denver/Green Bay game this Saturday and surprisingly no one sat or kneeled. Was surprised after all the news hype. We'll see as the season goes on, but if starts becoming a team thing, as much as I love the game I'll turn it off.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/28/2017 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Been watching sports for years now with the sound off, with the exception of the LA Angels broadcast, which is rather down home and informative (no virtue-signalling, finger-wagging, etc.) The wife got one of them Alexa thingies a spell ago, and we listened to R. Carlos Nakai throughout the NFL preseason games yesterday. Very Zen.

I avoid ESPN like the fuqing plague. Still yell at the TB whenever they show some diqhed like that feller on Seattle of the one on SF. But that's just a brief fit of pique.
Posted by: JHH || 08/28/2017 12:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Keep yer wallet away from them. Starve the beast.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/28/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Quite frankly, I think playing any national anthem before a pro sports event is ridiculous. Yes, it may be "tradition", but, especially in baseball with so many foreign players (not to mention in basketball and ice hockey), the days are over where teams consisted of virtually 100% Americans.

Yes, play the anthem at international events. But at pro events? C'mon. Show me another country besides Canada where that is done.

(Having said that, I think many of these athletes are scummy ingrates.)
Posted by: Clem || 08/28/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||

#11  Totally agree, Alaska Paul.
Posted by: Clem || 08/28/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#12  The US has been strong through unity and that unity is reinforced by the national antgem being played at many events. Nations that do not do so are splintered politically and are week as a nation and are a nation in name only.

The disrespect displayed by overpayed brats is an indication of the loss of that wisdom and if enough non-Americans continue to flood in this nation will splinter into a mosaic of third world hell holes.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/28/2017 17:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Y'know, we really could use a national antigen.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/28/2017 18:51 Comments || Top||

#14  Jim Brown had a talk with these players. They will be standing for the National Anthem.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/28/2017 19:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Regarding US unity we need to start pushing for assimilation among new immigrants, but how when they feed into Blue states who promote the opposite.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/28/2017 19:43 Comments || Top||


Trump vs. the Enemies of the People
h/t Instapundit
It's true that Donald Trump cannot yet claim a major legislative accomplishment. It's also true that he himself bears some of the blame for that: the distractions of his chaotic style have given cover to a divided and spineless GOP legislature. Nonetheless, those of us who voted for him with misgiving can still feel more than well pleased with his three major achievements so far: the appointment of an excellent Supreme Court justice; the battle against the Giant Squid-like beast of the regulatory state; and the fact that he's not Hillary Clinton, a felonious battle-axe who would've continued the Chicago-style corruption of the Obama administration and destroyed the American Experiment with freedom-smothering socialism. Speaking personally, I'd put Trump on Mount Rushmore for that last achievement alone.

But there's a fourth major accomplishment too, unofficial and extra-governmental though it may be: Trump's emotional torture of the press.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 02:29 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What is interesting is that the "Press" are so beyond reason that they are now calling for burning down the house - ie 1st Amendment. They go with it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2017 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2 
"But there's a fourth major accomplishment too, unofficial and extra-governmental though it may be: Trump's emotional torture of the press."

More than that, I think, it is that he has succeeded in goading and baiting the media into revealing, as plain as day to anyone with eyes and a functioning brain, the fact that they are little more than paid propagandists for the Democratic Party, in a relationship that differs little from that between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Pravda and Izvestia.
Posted by: Dave D. || 08/28/2017 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 What is interesting is that the "Press" are so beyond reason that they are now calling for burning down the house - ie 1st Amendment. They go with it.
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-28 08:16


...CLARIFICATION: They will be able to say anything they want, and you will be able to say anything you want as long as they approve of it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/28/2017 18:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump did reveal the press for what it is.

He also showed the deep disenchantment with the government which exists within his voters. Bernie Sanders also did this with a different block of voters. The conclusion is that the majority of voters are not satisfied with what the politicos and Deep State spoon feeds us.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/28/2017 18:57 Comments || Top||


Hall of Famer Tony Dungy Applauds Ben Watson for Calling Abortion, ‘Ultimate solution form of Racism'
[Breitbart] NFL Hall of Famer Tony Dungy, signaled support for current NFL player Ben Watson regarding his recent comments on abortion. Last week, Live Action wrote a piece which shared comments made by Watson in an interview with Turing Point Pregnancy Resource center. In that interview, Watson pointed out abortion’s racist foundation, and the motivations of it’s founder Margaret Sanger.
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#1  Mankind paints God's greatest sin in the flavor of the times.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2017 18:51 Comments || Top||


Antifa and the 'Alt-Left': Everything You Need to Know
[Rolling Stone] If you picked your jaw up off the floor just long enough to scratch your head and puzzle at what President Trump meant by the "alt-left" during his now infamous "Remarks on Infrastructure" meltdown on Tuesday, you're not alone.

"OK, what about the alt-left," he proffered, "what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right?"

So, what about the alt-left? Does it exist, or is it another bullet-dipped-in-pigs-blood fairy tale of Trump's imagination?

The word no doubt entered the president's consciousness the same way all his wildest policy ideas, hopes, dreams and paranoid delusions do ‐ from tuning in to Fox.

Though it began as an insult within the left ‐ a way to further deride the far left and so-called "Bernie Bros" during and after November's election ‐ the right has adopted the phrase, as well. Sean Hannity and other, fringier monsters of the far-right media ecosystem have been, for at least a year now, pushing the idea of the "alt-left" as some sort of answer to the charge that the "alt-right," a very real political entity, has hijacked and poisoned the Republican party. The Washington Post best described it in 2016 as "The GOP's response: I know what you are but what am I."

But there is an actual active and growing group that Trump refers to. However, it's incorrect to name-check it as the alt-left and it's downright wrong to morally equivocate it with the neo-Nazi and white supremacist scum that stormed Charlottesville. But it does exist. Only it's called "Antifa,"
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
short for anti-fascist, and it far predates Donald Trump.

First, a bit of history.

Anti-fascism originated in the years leading up to the second World War as a means to fight the spread of fascism across Europe, but in America the progenitors of what Trump would have you call the alt-left can be traced back to 1980s Minnesota. It was during this time that the group "Anti-Racist Action" sprung up around the Twin Cities to combat the rise of local Nazi skinheads. A.R.A., as the group became known, opened chapters across the U.S. and won some major victories against neo-Nazis in the pre-Internet Eighties and Nineties.

Underground, local punk scenes often served as the stage for these groups to do battle, but the scale and frequency with which they clashed was enough to seep into the popular culture throughout the decade. It ultimately culminated with 1998's American History X, for which Edward Norton was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as a reformed neo-Nazi skinhead.
It culminated in a movie?
And sadly on it goes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CTRL-left is more accurate
Posted by: Dopey Bumble8321 || 08/28/2017 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Congratulations, Rolling Stone - that is a remarkable piece of sophistry.
Posted by: Raj || 08/28/2017 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  ....alt-left can be traced back to 1980s Minnesota. It was during this time that the group "Anti-Racist Action" sprung up around the Twin Cities to combat the rise of local Nazi skinheads. A.R.A., as the group became known.

Strange, I don't remember a thing about 'Antifa' or anything closely related during the period mentioned.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2017 1:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Alt-left traces back to 19th century anarchists/nihilists - the left will be sorry for promoting and encouraging them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 2:01 Comments || Top||

#5  To paraphrase Lazarus Long "I don't need to understand how Antifa minds work..."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/28/2017 7:24 Comments || Top||

#6  When naming your group name it after one of the distant past that was pure of motive so you can claim direct lineage and brush over the dirty reality that most Antifa were Anarchists, and Occupy Wallstreet, and Black Lives Matter until recently.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/28/2017 8:31 Comments || Top||

#7  I figured the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/28/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#8  naming is big deal and disguising your actual program is important

Planned Parenthood disguises its pro abortion agenda
Jewish Voice for Peace is actually in favor of genocide of Israel
Clinton Global Foundation had an influence peddling agenga

the list goes on
Posted by: lord garth || 08/28/2017 18:58 Comments || Top||



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