Archive for 2016
April 20, 2016
BARACK OBAMA IS THE ONLY SANE MAN IN THE WORLD’S ROOM. SOURCE: BARACK OBAMA.
QUESTION ASKED: Can a burgeoning satanic movement actually effect political change?
Absolutely! Although dedicating your chief playbook to Lucifer seems like an awfully tacky giveaway, to be honest. Perhaps a more subtle approach would be more in keeping with honoring a man of wealth and taste who’s been around for a long, long year.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: This Parent’s Craigslist Ad For A Women’s Studies Tutor Proves America Is Over.
HEATHER MAC DONALD: Back to Bedlam.
Chicago had a harbinger of its current depolicing situation in 2012. Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy had disbanded a city-wide, anti-gang task force that advocates had criticized for allegedly making too many stops in minority neighborhoods. Homicides soared, ultimately reaching 500 that year. South Side residents begged for the reconstitution of the task force and the resumption of stops. “We have had enough,” the grandmother of a murder victim told the Telegraph, afraid to give her name for fear of retribution. “The older folks are terrified. We need the police to crack down on them. Responsibly yes, but forcefully.” A local city councilman, Willie Cochran, said that his constituents “wanted a more aggressive force engaging these terrorists on the streets.” His community was “ready to stand by the police” in the face of complaints about “racial profiling,” Cochran added. McCarthy reconstituted the unit in 2013 and the shooting epidemic cooled. (This connection between depolicing and crime has been repeatedly confirmed empirically, most recently in a study of Justice Department police consent decrees.)
The activists’ standard charge against cops in the post-Ferguson era is that they are peevishly refusing to do their jobs in childish protest against mere “public scrutiny.” This anodyne formulation whitewashes what has been going on in the streets as a result of the sometimes-violent agitation against them. Cops are routinely cursed and screamed at; sometimes bottles and rocks are thrown. “In my 19 years in law enforcement, I haven’t seen this kind of hatred toward the police,” a Chicago cop who works on the South Side tells me.
Read the whole thing. But it shouldn’t surprise anyone that a return to ’70s-style policing and attitudes towards law enforcement would bring a return of ’70s violence.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: About Obama’s Receding Tide of War… from Claudia Rosett.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BLOWS OFF ANOTHER CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA FOR OBAMACARE DOCUMENTS: But it’s for our own good, you see, because we don’t need to know why all but a handful of the Obamacare co-ops have or soon will fail.
FASTER, PLEASE: Fidel Castro gives rare speech saying he’s nearing the end.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON THE CONTRADICTIONS OF DIVERSITY: “So what is diversity? It is a catch-all leftist phrase, useful for providing a quid pro quo edge to a particular person largely on the basis of political considerations, as long as he or she is not hopelessly white or conservative — or suspected of being not opposed to either.”
Read the whole thing.
WHEN LEFTIES GROW DISENCHANTED: On Becoming Anti-Bernie.
HEY, WHEN DID FOX BUTTERFIELD START WRITING THE COVERS FOR NEWSWEEK?
Related: California’s High-Speed Rail Authority Wins Dishonor of the California Golden Fleece Award.
JUST THE HOT AIR COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH: Sanders’ Energy Policies Would Actually Increase Global Warming.
OR YOU COULD STOP ROTATING THE CAT AND WRITE: The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine.
OH, SURE OF ALL HER CLAIMS THAT’S THE ONE TO INVESTIGATE: MSM Finally Curious About Hillary’s Truthfulness, Fact Checks Her Hot Sauce Claim.
USE THIS ONE QUICK TRICK: Escaping the Digital Media ‘Crap Trap’.
DOES SHE HAVE INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION FOR THIS CLAIM? Michelle Obama: I’ve Been Victimized By Sexism – Men Used To Whistle At Me! (For extra frosting on the idiocy cake note she said this in ARGENTINA. The lack of understanding of Latin cultures this betrays might actually form a black hole* that sucks our entire universe into it. You have been warned.)
*Added for the benefit of those even less informed than Michelle Obama: Black hole is not actually a racist term. Here’s an explanation of Black Hole for students k-4. Ask someone to explain the hard words.
THAT AND THE CR*PTASTIC ECONOMY: NYC Hotel Rates May Be Dropping Thanks to Airbnb.
IF IT’S ALL IN THEIR HEADS? DO AS YOU WILL, SO LONG AS YOU HARM NONE: The ethical dilemmas of virtual reality. The reason for fiction, of which VR is a variety is to experience things you can’t or wouldn’t in real life. What’s next “the ethical dilemmas of novels”?
FEAR NOT, SUMMER OF RECOVERY #355 (SEEMS LIKE) IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER: Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs as PC Demand Slumps.
BUT HEY, AT LEAST, UNLIKE THE NAZIS THEY DON’T MAKE LAMPSHADES OF HUMAN SKIN (THAT WE KNOW): Report: Planned Parenthood Organ Sales Are ‘Pure Profit’.
ANOTHER REASON WHY I DRINK: THIS is our political class. Obama Admin Unsure If Iran Spent $3 Billion in New Cash on Terrorism.
April 19, 2016
THIS SORT OF UNFORTUNATE HAPPENSTANCE NEVER SEEMS TO AFFLICT HILLARY, FOR SOME REASON: Irregularities in New York primary robbed some of right to vote, say Sanders supporters and officials.
WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON ISN’T PROTEST, BUT VIRTUE-SIGNALLING, IT MAKES SENSE:
“The history of our country is that nothing happens until people start putting their bodies on the line and risk getting arrested.”
Said Ben of Ben & Jerry, who got arrested today, protesting, along with Jerry.
What were they protesting? I’m actually not sure! I read the material at their website, and I actually don’t know.
When people were sitting in at lunch counters you knew why. But, then, they weren’t going on about what good people they were for caring.
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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Pelosi’s Husband Invested in Solar Firm Weeks Before Lucrative Expansion.