CHANGE: IT’S THE BOHO-DRAIN AS BOHEMIANS SAY GOODBYE SAN FRANCISCO, HELLO L.A.
Better they stay inside the state of California than tainting more conservative states (read: Texas) with the same strains of leftism that’s destroying the once Golden State.
LANGUAGE POLICE: Comey on Clinton email probe: ‘Don’t call us weasels’
“You can call us wrong, but don’t call us weasels. We are not weasels,” Comey declared Wednesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. “We are honest people and … whether or not you agree with the result, this was done the way you want it to be done.”
The normally stoic FBI chief grew emotional and emphatic as he rejected claims from Republican lawmakers that the FBI was essentially in the tank for Clinton when it recommended that neither she nor any of her aides be prosecuted in connection with the presence of classified information on Clinton’s private email server. He acknowledged he has “no patience” for such allegations.
Finally he’s tough on something.
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Police Refuse to Work HS Football Game after Players Take the Knee During National Anthem.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: ‘F–k You, A–holes,’ Argued the Yale Philosopher. “Except without the asterisk.”
SYRIA CEASEFIRE UPDATE: Turkey to Clear ‘Corridor of Terror’ at Border.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is determined to eliminate the “corridor of terror” along its border with Syria by clearing the Islamic State group and Syrian Kurdish fighters from the area.
Addressing a group of local administrators on Thursday, Erdogan reiterated that a secure no-fly zone which Turkey would like established in Syria would help end the flow of refugees to Turkey and beyond.
Turkey last month sent troops and tanks into Syria to help Syrian opposition rebels re-take IS strongholds near the Turkish border and curb the advance of Syrian Kurdish militia, which are affiliated with Turkey’s outlawed Kurdish rebels.
Erdogan sees no practical difference between ISIS and the Kurds.
WHEN PEOPLE SAY POLICE HAVE AN ACCOUNTABILITY PROBLEM, THEY’RE RIGHT, AND IT GOES WAY BEYOND SHOOTINGS: Cop Forced Teen To Perform Oral Sex On Himself And His Partner, Keeps Law Enforcement Certification. “A cop took a deal in relation to charges of sexually assaulting a teenage girl and will not receive a felony conviction, will not have to register as a sex offender, will only serve a year in jail, and still currently has his law enforcement certification.”
HILLARY CLINTON: I WORKED HARD FOR MY GRAFT!
EIGHT YEARS LATE: Obama had a tense exchange with CNN’s Jake Tapper over why he won’t say ‘radical Islamic terrorism’
During a CNN town-hall event focusing on the US military, Gold Star mother Tina Houchins asked Obama why he won’t use the term.
Some critics, including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, have argued that Obama’s insistence on not using the term to refer to terror attacks committed in the name of groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda shows that he isn’t well-equipped to fight terrorism.
“The truth of the matter is that this is an issue that has been sort of manufactured, because there is no doubt, and I’ve said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death,” Obama said.
“These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves — there’s no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do,” he added.
Obama later seemed to allude to Trump as he continued to answer Houchins’ question.
Trump makes a convenient distraction.
Then this, from a different writeup of the same interview:
Obama believes that “the work that this military has done, and the work that our law enforcement has done, has made us significantly safer today than we were when 9/11 happened.”
We don’t seem to be much safer from “workplace violence” or “assault weapons” crimes committed by people whose faith POTUS isn’t honest about.
YOUR SCARY-ASS CHART OF THE DAY: From 1999-2014, drug overdose deaths have soared nationwide, including in many rural areas, spurred by prescription painkillers, heroin and synthetic opioids including fentanyl.
CBS NEWS: More state election databases hacked than previously thought. “Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues that more U.S. state election databases have been hacked than previously thought. According to sources, a total of about 10 states have had their systems probed or breached by hackers, similar to what happened in Arizona and Illinois. CBS News has learned that government officials are increasingly concerned about Russian efforts to disrupt or influence the 2016 presidential election.”
That’s okay. Both of our candidates are sportsmanlike good losers who won’t automatically cry fraud if they don’t win.
POLICE: Man killed by officer pointed vaping device, not gun.
Alfred Okwera Olango, 38, pulled a vape smoking device from his pocket and pointed it at police before one officer fatally shot him and another discharged a Taser, El Cajon Police said.
His death set off demonstrations in the San Diego suburb as activists demanded that authorities release video of the shooting. They also want a federal probe into Olango’s death.
Some protesters threw water bottles at police while others gathered in the street and parking lot where the shooting happened. Many held signs saying “black lives matter” as police wearing helmets with shields looked on.
Police have released little information except for a still photograph showing Olango in what authorities described as a “shooting stance,” facing off with the two officers in a parking lot.
By Wednesday evening, police identified the object as a the vaping device.
Good lord.
JOEL KOTKIN: Is There A Future For The GOP?
Whether he loses or, more unlikely, wins, Donald Trump creates an existential crisis for the Republican Party. The New York poseur has effectively undermined the party orthodoxy on defense, trade and economics, policies which have been dominant for the last half century within the party but now are falling rapidly out of fashion among the rank and file.
In this sense, Trump’s nomination could be seen as both an albatross and something of a life preserver. His rallying of a large working-class base, particularly in the Heartland, provides a potential new direction for the party that has lost irretrievably the business elite, the coastal states, minorities and the educated young. Clearly, the party needs to revise its electoral strategy. . . .
Now the Democrats have become the party of the urban gentry, public employees and the government-dependent poor, an identification that hurts them elsewhere.In contrast, Trump’s strongest support comes from small towns and, to a lesser extent, the suburbs. In these geographic heartlands, low labor participation rates, declining incomes, struggling Main Street businesses and collapsing opportunity incite resentment and a call for radical change. The disconnect with the power centers is further stoked by the celebratory coverage received by the asset/inflation-driven “false economy.”
Clearly, the traditional Republican path to victory — pandering to the ultrarich — seems misplaced, if not a trifle masochistic. Trump may boast about how he benefited from cronyism, but his critiques resonate more with the owner of a bar on a small town Main Street or a 20-person machine shop who knows that he can’t count on the Treasury Department defending his tax avoidance, as has occurred in the case of big-time Democratic donor Apple.
Similarly, Trump’s crude assault on undocumented immigration makes more sense to many lower-skilled Americans who compete with them for jobs. Additionally, Trump’s attack on the Democrats’ ever more strident decarbonization drive has brought Appalachia firmly into the GOP realm, and may also deliver some key Midwestern swing states, such as Iowa and Ohio.
Bill Clinton, who once effectively reached such voters, now denounces the “coal people” like they are a bunch of mindless Bubbas. His wife’s recent attack on Trump supporters as homophobes, racists and xenophobes revealed an unflattering glimpse at the inner thoughts of the “party of the people.”
Indeed.
AND THEN, AT SOME POINT, WE’LL HAVE HAD ENOUGH: DHS Head to America: Brace for More Terror Attacks. Beware when we have had enough.
COMING SOON TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU: Now NYC has publicly funded mobs.
WEIRDLY I REMEMBER SIMILAR FLAPS ABOUT W AND OBAMA: In Hillary’s case, it’s just her robot body. Someone left a door open. ‘WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?’Hillary Clinton was wearing a mysterious box with wires during TV debate with Trump, conspiracy theorists claim in latest bizarre theory.
WHEN DID DENYING GENOCIDE BECOME A LEGACY? The president who allowed genocide — what Syrians say of Obama.