Disney's Mulan film credits include a special thank you to the Turpan Public Security Bureau (PSB), a Uyghur region where the movie was filmed sometime after 2015, meaning likely between 2016-18, when Uyghur mass detentions were ongoing. Gives me a whole new perspective on it. https://t.co/OteKyksrCq
[BizPacReview] A registered nurse appeared to surprise a CNN host during a panel discussion of the administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when she heartily defended President Donald Trump’s actions.
Michele Morrow of North Carolina, who said she has been working in her industry for more than a quarter of a century, was part of a panel of women voters featured during a segment hosted by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. During the segment, the subject turned to the administration’s coronavirus actions.
"I’m a nurse, and I’ve been a nurse for 27 years. And the response to the pandemic has actually been President Trump’s greatest achievement," Morrow said.
"He was the one who closed off all travel at the beginning of February. Do you guys remember what was happening in January? There were no other elected officials that were even thinking about COVID, because they were busy doing their impeachment," she continued, a statement that triggered a visible response from Camerota.
"Joe Biden, he was the vice president for eight years, so why didn’t they prepare for a pandemic?" Morrow added.
The RN was not the only pro-Trump panel member.
"I’m also a ... medical information administrator, worked in hospitals for 25 years," said Jill Rahrig.
"And I think President Trump actually has done a pretty good job. I’m impressed. I’m impressed with how he has garnered the help of the private sector to help get a vaccine going, bringing the PPEs in. Developing new ventilators. It’s all been good," she continued.
The president ordered travel from China to the United States closed in late January; he followed that with an order shutting off travel from Europe in mid-March as it became apparent the pandemic was ravaging the continent.
Also, according to then-acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in late February, the administration attempted to brief members of Congress in mid-January, but hardly anyone showed up.
"My first meeting with Congress, face-to-face, was probably six weeks ago on coronavirus. ... We take the medical experts down, we put them in front of Congress five, six weeks ago. Five senators show up. Ten, fifteen members of the House of Representatives show up. We were way ahead [of the issue]," he told economist Stephen Moore during an interview at a Conservative Political Action Conference.
"Just who was asleep, right?" Moore responded.
"Several weeks ago, we put restrictions on travelers coming in from China. We were accused by some on the left of being racist for doing that. I’m not making that up. That was in the press. This was an anti-Asian policy that we’re doing this," Mulvaney added.
As for Morrow, she has been a supporter of the president and an opponent of her Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, for imposing severe coronavirus lockdown restrictions early on.
She posted a video in late April of a shutdown protest she attended in which she spoke out against Cooper’s order closing ’non-essential’ businesses.
She also argued that states not hard hit by the virus should reopen, adding that "we cannot allow the issues in big cities to control the rest of our country."
Speaking at the ’reopen’ rally, Morrow also said that people who were stricken with other illnesses were "dying from things other than COVID because they can’t go" get medical care "and they can’t have their surgeries and their doctors offices are closed. They’re not wanting to go to the hospital because of fear."
Morrow also blasted Cooper, saying he has "done nothing to communicate with the people of North Carolina."
"It’s time for us to reopen America. It’s time for us to reopen North Carolina," she said.
#1
Surprising a CNN talking head with factual data is ridiculously easy it seems, they live in a fantasy land. She is dead right about NC's Cooper. He is utterly useless. I'm just as excited to vote against Cooper as I am to vote for Trump.
[DiogenesMiddleFinger] The difference between leftwing ’activism’ and the zombie apocalypse gets smaller by the day. If your cause requires bullying to get the message across perhaps it, and your defence of it, isn’t as righteous as you think it is. But I suppose it depends on whether you’re amused by making people miss flights and hospital appointments, or job interviews, or thwarting parents’ attempts to collect their children from school. That kind of thing. And regardless of the pretext offered on any given day, you do have to marvel at the moral vacancy of it all.
Apparently, it isn’t hard to understand that the way to make people sympathetic with your cause, whatever it may be this week, is to screw them over, because you can, and then applaud yourself for doing so. Somewhat harder to understand is that go-to solution, of which they so proud — i.e., the gratuitous trapping of motorists, is a moral non sequitur and rather like saying, "I’m troubled by the plight of the Javan rhinoceros, so I’m going to start spitting at the elderly and keying random cars, and then boast about it."
The Obstructing-Traffic-And-Frustrating-Random-People-While-Feeling-Immensely-Self-Satisfied Thing™ first came to our attention during the Occupy (enter cause celeb) fad and it rapidly degenerated into opportunist thuggery and self-indulgent farce. A high point being when a Mao-ling mother placed her four-year-old daughter on active train tracks. Since then, in the name of "teaching others to care," we’ve seen self-righteous mobs deliberately blocking the paths of ambulances and giving paramedics the finger, while exulting in their power to alarm, frustrate and coerce. And to endanger lives with collective impunity.
And we’ve seen fearless, selfless anti-Trump protestors surrounding and terrorising a lone female driver by trying to smash her car’s windshield, and videoing her distress for their own amusement and peer-group cred. And at which point, what you’re seeing isn’t politics or protest. It’s sociopathy.
We’ve also seen Mao-lings in running into traffic on a highway because terrorising random motorists is the woke thing to do, apparently. And when one of them gets hurt - which will tend to happen if you swarm onto a motorway in the dark, the Mao-lings will immediately started blaming someone else, anyone but the people who actually chose to run into the path of oncoming traffic. And of course we’ve seen things like these items here and many others in the archives. All done in the name of forcing others to be compassionate. And comply.
#2
This is destabilization, the necessary precursor to revolution. Of course they're attacking random strangers who have nothing to do with it. That's the whole idea. Whoever wrote this never watched Yuri Berezomov.
#5
If your cause involves lobbying the government to force others to validate your life choices, it's a questionable cause. If the government actually get involved in coercing people to validate other people's life choices, it's a questionable government.
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#7
Here's a hint, when you ACT like Nazi's...it means you are one.
And try this outside of a liberal sh*thole, and expect a violent and brutal response.
Texas Law:
A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41 ; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury
[Breitbart] National Public Radio (NPR) conducted an interview on Sunday comparing President Donald Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and tied the president to the kind of conspiracy theories that led to the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tax-payer-funded NPR also implied that former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush also embraced similar fascist ideology:
Historians have noted similarities between Donald Trump and Mussolini since before the 2016 election. Some of the racial justice protesters this summer have said they are fighting fascism in the form of President Trump. And the presence of antifa — anti-fascist — protesters at some demonstrations has upped attention to the word.
But what is and isn’t fascist isn’t even agreed upon by scholars.
Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University, offers one perspective on the word. He defines fascism as "a cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation."
Stanley, who is the author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, was asked on NPR’s All Things Considered about how Trump stacks up today compared to his 2018 assessment. Stanley replied:
#3
Pronouncement from Amna Nawaz:
A frown, and an ominous pause.
Wouldn't do to be flip
As she slipped you the drip
That'll put you to sleep for the cause.
#6
Defund now, you say? Defund now and send them a back bill for decades of reflexive treachery and treason.
Oh, snowflake you might want to reconsider your 'fight against fascism' when it begins to center around angry mobs accosting innocents and demanding they repeat your oh so interesting slogan and respond with your salute. That and get some farking Hugo Boss for G-d's sake.
[PJ] Turning on the TV the other night for my ailing mother-in-law, a devotee of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, we were pummeled by the public address announcer’s sanctimonious spiel about Black Lives Matter, the social sickness of "systemic racism," and how these issues were "bigger than the game." Some of the players were featured delivering solemn, not-entirely lucid homilies about justice for the oppressed and the need for brotherhood among the races. One could sense Saint Kaepernick kneeling in the background.
I must say I did not appreciate being enlightened by an announcer reading a script he’d been provided by a cadre of sycophantic officials or lectured by a platoon of semi-literate multi-millionaires who had just presumably discovered they had a social conscience. They were being paid, I’d assumed, to play the game of hockey and entertain their fans, not preach like Savonarola to the sinful multitudes. Recovering from a serious operation, my mother-in-law needed something to distract her, and her revered Canucks served the purpose. But I swore off hockey from that moment forward since it wasn’t hockey anymore, it was politics. Would others feel the same way about football or basketball or baseball?
The abandonment of the game was by no means a tragedy but it was a kind of sacrifice. I have always been, like a good Canadian, passionate about hockey. Raised in a small town in snowy northern Quebec, I was ardent about the game to the point of infatuation. Indeed, so devoted was I that I sacrificed my bar mitzvah studies to the sacred art and devotional practice of tending goal for our local teams. In later years I followed the seasonal exploits of my beloved Montreal Canadiens, suffering deep depression when they began regularly missing the playoffs, sympathizing with puck-peppered Carey Price, and contenting myself by hurling fiery imprecations at brain-dead management.
Sports is a way of shutting out the world of everyday concerns, of boredom on the job, the usual money worries, and the various tribulations that come with ordinary life. Sports creates an autonomous world with its own rules and pleasures and functions as a necessary distraction from the complex and insoluble world "out there." It was never meant to be corrupted by the politics of the day, as is now the case. Commenting on the televised NFL draft, author Jeff Reynolds says "it was nice to have a little bit of football back while we’re still under quarantine." American Thinker blogger Bill Hansmann sits in his den, "staring at autographed baseballs," and wants "to hear the crack of the bat." Didn’t I want to hear the thwack of stick against puck and see the net bulge and the red light go on?
#5
Interesting piece o Jezebel Besoeker. The line that stood out was about her 'surrounding herself with eunuchs and false prophets'. The Left is nothing if not infested with tranny's and bull horn prophets these days.
#11
I call this a win by the far left. The left have tried to destroy the middle class. The one thing the middle class had as a bonding event was pro sports. Every blue collar worker had his teams, the bet on them, went to bars and cheered them, and on and on. It was a base for the blue collar culture. Now its gone. Our ties between cities, the rivalries, the link is gone. Culturally they have finally divided us. The other cultural unifying event is church, gone for the most part as well. Step one complete.
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Part of the war on masculinity. At least we'll always have soccer.
#14
I mean having F1 in a good way; missed that bit of subtlety there by Iblis.
I'm gonna turn on a footy match in a few minutes - Denmark vs. England in this UEFA Cup bullshit. it's basically pre-season stuff now, but it's a drag watching this stuff with no crowds; throw in the political crap and it's no wonder most everyone here's bailing on it. They did this to themselves.
#15
Step One in destroying (E. Burke's) Social Compact: destroy the bonds between the living (by destroying the uniting force of religion, common language, shared culture).
Step Two: destroy the bonds between the living and the dead (by trashing our national and cultural heritage and by erasing our collective memory)
Step Three: destroy the bonds between the living and the generations yet unborn (by mortgaging the future to oligarchs and Chinese commies and by piling tens of trillions of unfunded, impossible-to-fund debt on those future generations)
#18
#15 - The debt is growing so absurdly astronomical that it will eventually be not just defaulted upon but repudiated as well. Whether the debt holders will be able to make war over it or are also in over their heads by that point remains to be seen.
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@ #14 - When PL footballers donned "Black Lives Matter" on their jerseys in place of their names, that just about did it for me. Then the patch and also the kneeling, even the referees, before kick-off. Pathetic.
#20
Canned Fan Noise has been a thing for a couple years but got away with it because the illusion of attendance even with the occasional glitch in the matrix, such as a full stadium roaring in applause after a big play.....by the visiting team.
The lack of booing, especially by some crowds, and even cheering.....when the home team does something boneheaded
#21
Growing up a sports fan in Boston I learned to appreciate the value of the heckler with a booming voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of the opponents’ weaknesses and history.
#22
Helluva race on Sunday, especially for a McLaren fan (me)!
That was a blast, wasn't it? McLaren bagging a podium with Sainz and 4th with Norris was fun to watch. It's a nice change from the usual top four of Hamilton, Bottas, Verstappen and LeClerc.
Also - I spotted a McLaren in my hometown (Quincy, MA) two months ago - same nice orange paint job, a magnificent car. My cousin ran one (and a Ferrari) on the Loudon, NH NASCAR track last month, the lucky bastard!
Clem - I'm a Liverpud supporter, so that's about all the PL I'm gonna watch but you're right - they're just trashing the sport. It'll be fun watching NBC renegotiating the TV rights with them (that's the main reason for the massive increases in salaries the past eight years they've been showing the matches stateside), because that's about to happen after about six more months of shit ratings unless they drop this bullshit yesterday. To me, that's the only way they bail out of this shitshow with some level of grace (thin reed, I know). Then the players are gonna see seriously lowered contract offers because 'hey, we don't have the cash coming in anymore', and it'll get even worse if top upcoming talent says 'fook this noise - I'm gone because the effort's not worth the reduced payoff'. Thus they'll trash the EPL (and many other pro sports franchise setups) and it'll be on life support for a decade, at least.
#23
Growing up a sports fan in Boston I learned to appreciate the value of the heckler with a booming voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of the opponents’ weaknesses and history.
Dude - I lived with a guy who was exactly that. He'd get seats off of 1st or 3rd base for maximum effect. This being Boston, you know how it goes - he'd hit this place and get good & liquored up before he cruised in. Probably had a sausage roll with onions and peppers so he can half belch out his abuse, but he was good at that shit. Encyclopedic knowledge of baseball history, great heckling voice pitch and volume, very good timing - this cat was a five-tool player. I'm pretty sure he just directed it mostly at the players, but it'd be funny to take cheap shots at MLB umpires Joe West and Angel Hernandez because these two umps are awful and suck big hairy donkey balls.
#25
Its been a few years, but the Marlins IIRC had a fan who could absolutely chatter. He was so good, he was showing up the announces. Absolutely fantastic to hear even when he was obviously in my team's head.
An example: Boog Powell late in his career getting worked by the first base heckler. Powell is a known big eater, clearly overweight and not moving like he used to. There’s lots of history so lots of material to work with. Then, late in the game a gift from the Gods of Heckling. Some knuckle head steals the ice cream guy’s concession box and runs down through the seats towards first base throwing out ice cream bars with the concessionaire chasing close behind. Play stops while everyone takes in some drama in an otherwise slow game. One of the bars lands on the field. The first-base umpire trots over and picks it up. At that moment, the heckler belts out, “Give it to Boog!” That got at least a third of Fenway laughing.
#27
I grew up on Baseball and followed my team for many a lean year.
And I don't miss it.
I was pumped to see if Ovechkin would break records and lead The Caps to another Stanley.
And I don't miss it.
I watch NBA until LeBron made soccer flopping popular.
And I don't miss it.
My football team just won the Super Bowl, but they have shown themselves to be willfully ignorant to actively deceitful.
And I won't miss it.
Instead of those three hours of mostly gossip and commercials, I will:
Learn to fly in Flight Simulator 2020.
Work on plastic models with the kids.
Teach the kids olde school Car Wars, D&D, Battletech.
Get a good Racing Game, Wheel with Stick, chair.
Teach the kids to drive the cart and golf, weather permitting.
Get good at making Carne Adovada, other new dishes.
Read the kids a classic book, especially the ones hollywood has butchered.
- learning how to lose gracefully, in a public setting
- meeting weird and wonderful characters from the community who have much wisdom to give and whom my kids and I would never have met otherwise
- the experience of legendary exploits on the field, both positive and negative, such as when Bobby G. scored five touchdowns in one game, or when Smyke [no first name needed] made six errors in one inning
- the experience of marvelous exploits off the field, such as when MaryAnn A. gave Timmy D. a bl0wjob under the bleachers between the sixth and seventh innings
- the joy of p!ssing off one's elders with irreverent snark, silly songs during boring and repetitive practice, and cunning subversion
- ice cream after every game-- win, lose or fall on your face, stink up the joint lose
What my kids will not miss:
- boring and repetitive time-wasting practice sessions
- eating godawful junk food in forced outings to crap fast food joints
- weird and creepy characters from the community whom they would have avoided otherwise
- the experience of being harassed and bullied by the odd pompous overbearing unfulfilled compensating quasi-fascist coach
What I will miss:
The chance to relive my youth and share my precious memories and experience as an American man to my American sons.
To hell with these fools who would destroy our memories and godawful junk food in forced outings to crap fast food joints
#31
It will take a LOT of work to build right. Lots of planning and perfect execution to do it RIGHT. Now I may have to go find the damned thing. I bought it for my kids 30 years ago, but they were overwhelmed.
#32
Now, I'm not saying kids are giving up sports; on the contrary. I'm just done giving up the time, attention, and money courting a business who think that the business exists for the consumer, rather than that the consumer sets the business model.
CG777 not quite sure how to do that, one of them does know how to reach me; I do know that there are excellent models out there. I even inquired about those ship models which do combat.
My favorite construct was the Missouri which I waterproofed to the point I could sail it down the gutters after a good rainfall.
If you have ever played the board game Top Gun, I had enough airplanes left from aircraft carrier models to fit whatever the call for figurines was.
Now son and I did a Lego Technics helicopter for which the blades of the helicopter would pitch correctly while the power train operated. Quite satisfying.
Second favorite, F-14. Did a number of others including soviet fighters, and did the Top Gun Game in real space.
#33
My absolute favorite real space game was Lego Mechwarrior.
Certain weapons had a certain construct. Had to have an appropriate power plant, crew capsule, leg length determined mobility, everything else was designer's choice.
Fire round would include various projectiles, from rubber bands to throwing objects such as marbles for rocket pods. The PPC was a bolt made of Legos launched from a toy crossbow. Accuracy was how much time from ready to aim-fire one had.
Those were the not-outside days. Outside days were much more spectacular.
#35
**just considered, if you do CG777, please put something memorable in the subject line, I get plenty of bulllllshit I wouldn't want to miss good advice. Thank you.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—Bible scholars now believe Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because they refused to wear a mask, or really, any clothes at all.
"It's pretty clear that the original sin was actually not putting a mask on in a public place like the Garden of Eden," said Dr. Charles Manning of Yale Divinity School. "We originally thought the fruit was a literal fruit, but we now believe it to be symbolic language representing the wearing of a mask."
"We repeatedly asked them to put a mask on, and they were just totally unashamed," said Karen, an angel on duty at the time. "They didn't even seem to be aware that their mouths were uncovered, or their more... private bits."
The angel tasked with shooing them away got out his trusty, 6-foot-long sword of fire and carefully prodded them out of the garden, keeping his distance the whole time. Adam and Eve were then cursed to work hard their whole lives and DoorDash stuff, never again being able to eat out at a restaurant.
Adam took no responsibility for the incident, claiming that the whole thing was his wife's idea.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Babylon Bee] U.S.—Bible scholars now believe Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because they refused to wear a mask, or really, any clothes at all.
